The Colorado Avalanche had SUCH a feel-good season, yet it’s becoming increasingly hard to applaud the moral victories that teams like the Avs took home this year when the Vegas Golden Knights are laughing their way straight to the Stanley Cup Final.
Book it: they’re definitely winning it all this year.
It’s tough to tell if they’re a bigger insult to the numbers boys, winning playoff game after playoff game on the backs of a bunch of skaters who embody ‘winning it to stick it to the man’, or to the 200 Hockey Men who laughed at guys like Collin Miller and Jonathan Marchessault and Reilly Smith (and who are all now kind of wishing they had this kind of dynamic scoring on their roster, too).