Welcome to the goalie controversy, Avalanche fans!
Colorado found themselves at the very bottom of a dark hole in the 2016-17 season, when they fell off a cliff in the absence of Semyon Varlamov and couldn’t find their way back out.
This year, they’ve done a complete one-eighty... but surprisingly enough, Varlamov has had little to do with it.
It’s been Jonathan Bernier.
After Varlamov was hurt at the start of 2018, Bernier went on an impressive tear, helping the team to a nearly-unheard of 10-game win streak that put them at nearly half their point total for the entire year prior.