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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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One potential contributing factor is that the Avalanche are run like a minor league team in every way possible. Small front office staff, crappy charter travel nowhere near as good as the Canucks (or any Canadian team), low budget on the hockey ops side, etc.
EDIT: Sounds like the Avs got out of their horrible charter deal so no issues there. They're with Air Canada now.