Picking a favorite Joe Sakic steal is like having to pick a favorite kid. But a tip of the salary cap to the $850,000 the Avalanche general manager gave Valeri Nichushkin three summers ago, a deal that’s aged like the finest of wines.
“You know, I think about that (sometimes),” Nichushkin, the two-way forward — whose chef’s-kiss dish to Andrew Burakovsky during Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals set ...