Ian Cole wasn’t sure what to expect, in hindsight, other than the fact that watching Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen blow by some other stiffs beat the living pants off having to chase them yourself.
“I can say that, in my experience, at least, I genuinely like every single guy in this locker room and I would go out to dinner with every single guy in this locker room,” Cole, the 30-year-old defenseman, said of his first season with the Colorado Avalanche. “It’s not one of those (locker rooms) where it’s clique-y.