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Keeler: Avalanche’s Stanley Cup dreams have died between pipes for 20 years. Darcy Kuemper can change all that.

Beneath a slightly puffy lid, Darcy Kuemper’s right eye still had that same old twinkle.

A little bruising, sure. But no scarring. No blood.

“Yeah, I can see now,” the Avalanche goaltender cracked with a wide smile as he greeted reporters Sunday.

Did you see the numbers? Since the fall of 2019, Mount Darcy, fresh off that Game 3 eye-poke by Nashville stooge Ryan Johansen, is 7-3 against the St. Louis . . .