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Originally Posted by 19Yzerman19
To be fair, they're still nowhere near as good as they appear, but they're playing Minnesota who are a fairly mediocre team. The Avs are sort of like Toronto lite - all-around better at hockey than Toronto, and with better top-end forward talent, but still relying on that top end forward talent to disguise the serious issues elsewhere in the lineup.
It's a fun team to watch but I would not pick them to come close to winning their division next season. They'll be subject to a correction much like the Leafs were, except not to the same extent (i.e. they'll probably be hovering around the bottom seed in the division or one of the wild card spots rather than missing the playoffs altogether).
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They really needed to make a move on their defense this year.
They've got some big salaries starting next year:
Duchene moves from 3.5 to 6
Landeskog moves from 925k to 5.57
Varlamov goes from 2.8 to 5.9
ROR is back to being an RFA and you know that is going to be a battle, wouldn't surprise me if they trade him since he's going to want more than Duchene.
Plus Statsny as a UFA.
The one saving grace is that Tanguay/Parenteau contracts expire at the same time as MacKinnon will start getting paid.