The Colorado Avalanche are in a rebuild. We forgot that, didn’t we?
We all got a little blinded by the brilliance of the top line. Last year, Nathan MacKinnon and his wingman, Mikko Rantanen, pulled the team into the playoffs. That amazing season happened after the dire 48-point season.
But every season is a new chance, right? With all the parity in hockey, a team can go from last in the NHL to playoff contenders, right?
Obviously it can. It happened last year. It happened twice really. The Avalanche were dead-last in the Western Conference in 2012-13 and followed that up by winning the Central Division — the Golden why Not Us season.