Two of the best players in Avalanche history skate toward a crossroads for a hockey team that has run out of excuses for failure.
Right here, right now, Colorado must win the Stanley Cup. Or something needs to change, because even teenage phenoms eventually grow old. Worry lines now frame the eyes of Nathan MacKinnon and the hockey wars have scarred Gabe Landeskog.
“I think everybody realizes what a team we have in (that dressing room) and what an opportunity this is,” Lankeskog said Monday. “I’m sitting here in my 11th season and Nate’s in his ninth.