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Originally Posted by timun
After they won their division in 2014 and were upset in the first round of the playoffs? Absolutely they did. They let Paul Stastny walk, traded Ryan O'Reilly and Matt Duchene, and hurt themselves over the long run by trying to fill gaps in their lineup with dead weight like Blake Comeau and the retirement tours of Jarome Iginla and Alex Tanguay. It wasn't until after they went through another few years of crap, drafted Rantanen, and jettisoned the dead weight on their roster into the sun that they improved.
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Huh? O’Reilly was traded in 2015 after the Avalanche failed to make the playoffs and Duchene was traded after that historically disastrous 16-17 season where he completely soured on the organization.
The Avs are better today because they’ve focused on adding speed to the line up. No namers like Nieto, Compher, Calvert, Kerfoot skated circles around our highly paid forwards. This is the future of the NHL IMO, Speed. It killed our hopes and rendered everyone on this team practically useless.
We’re all sitting here being very critical of our team and most of it is probably fair game. But I’m starting to think it’s more so what the Avs did to us, that really won them the series.
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