Erik Johnson won’t itch about being a healthy scratch. Not a peep. You might think the fact that Johnson won’t always be active for the Avalanche is a bug. Heck, no. No. 6 sees it as a feature.
“I think (this group) reminds me a lot of the year we won,” Johnson, the fun, physical heart of the Avalanche’s 2022 Stanley Cup champs, said Saturday of his return to the Front Range at age 36. “I think we’re really deep.
“I don’t think we had that strength down the middle since Naz (Kadri) left.