Nashville definitely doesn't have any cups. They also haven't sucked badly enough to have 6 top 10 picks in the last 10 years. 4 top 5 picks in that span. They've been a decently consistent franchise over the past 15 years in regards to making the playoffs and are now set up to be pretty competitive for the next few years. I'd definitely prefer the Nashville path from 2001 - 2018 vs. the Colorado path if I were that writer.
(Avs fans - Not anything meant as a jab towards you. It's more towards the idiot click bait writer, who is still living back in the glory days when he probably still rocked a pager. I admittedly did not click.)
First of all the writer of this "Story" is a clown show, everyone in Denver knows it. He doesn't even know the Avs exist until they make the playoffs, then he pretends he knows everything. So everything he writes about hockey needs to be taken with a grain of salt, it's just trash journalism.
But I do love how you basically disregard the years of 1995-2006 for the Avalanche where we won 2 Cups and made 6 conference finals. I'll take those years over anything Nashville has ever done. Even it meant that we'd be a poor team for 10+ years.
Nashville in the 19 years since they entered the league has made it out of the 1st round of the playoffs all of 4 times and has only been past that point 1 time. Not really mind blowing stats. If you ask me that is the definition of average. Just good enough to make the playoffs but never do anything once there.
At the end of the day it's really a tale of would you rather be slightly above average consistently or would you like to be elite for 11 years and then have to be miserable for the next 10? I think most people would rather win something and then suck than be constantly average.
And honestly you sound like lots of Pred fans around here, that seem genuinely concerned that their window for a championship is very small and you're watching a very young Avs team with key injuries push your team to lengths that you weren't expecting. I think you know that the Avs are a young dangerous team for the future (and it might not happen over night but we are on the rise) and it worries you that we are young and talented. I think Pred fans are also concerned that Winnipeg is also very young and dangerous and is a threat to your reign as best team in the division. And it's quite possible that your reign as the best in the division might be extremely short lived.