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Originally Posted by bizaro86
You gotta think Tippet would rather go to Denver than Vancouver. Colorado is on the upswing, lots of young talent, but has sucked recently so low expectations. Perfect storm for a coach to look like a genius if they make a dramatic improvement. Vancouver is much riskier, an older team with some serious flaws that has been a recent contender. Unless he thinks he can win a cup in Vancouver right away, I suspect he'd pick the Avalanche.
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There is merit there as it would be easy for him to go to Colorado and do a 180 with that team. Vancouver not so much as it's not like AV is chopped liver and the best years are all behind most of the players on the team.