The Colorado Avalanche have gotten off to a good start. At the time of writing (which was right before the Tampa Bay Lightning game), the team had a 6-1-2 record.
Within that record, you see a lot of good that you can build on, especially as a young team. They had lost only three games, and only one of those was in regulation. Of any of the games they’d played, only that regulation loss — in their first road game of the season — saw the team play truly lackadaisical hockey.
What’s more, we saw the the top line of Nathan MacKinnon centering Mikko Rantanen and Gabriel Landeskog was going to pick up right where they left off and be one of the top lines in the NHL.