Has Colorado’s core underachieved?.

[IronHookem]

Any core/group that wins the cup in the modern era can not really be deemed underachievers. With that said, I probably expected them to at least have had another SCF appearance by now, but their division has been kind of stacked in the last couple of years, so it is what it is.

 

[Oilslick941611]

Florida, Edmonton and Dallas have made numerous deep runs at a time when Colorado should be there threatening with them. Colorado is a trash ass organization that pisses away opportunities to win. This year was the best example of it. Who let's their team give up a 2-0 lead in Game 7? It takes a special kind of stupid to do that and not even make it to OT.

Yeah. 100%

But winning the cup is the goal.

They are in a weird place. They won a cup but have haven’t done anything since. So you can’t really argue they underachieved but at the same time they’ve done nothing since and they were nothing before the cup as well.

 

[El Travo]

If we're looking at Cup wins only, then no. However, outside of their winning year, they really haven't been a true threat to win. It'd be a different story if they'd made the Conference Finals or even the Finals a couple times during their window. The fact that they can't pass the 2nd round really tarnishes their legacy as contenders.

 

[Fatass]

If we're looking at Cup wins only, then no. However, outside of their winning year, they really haven't been a true threat to win. It'd be a different story if they'd made the Conference Finals or even the Finals a couple times during their window. The fact that they can't pass the 2nd round really tarnishes their legacy as contenders.

Well, the Avs core does have a Cup. Lots of great cores don’t and never do. So actually the Avs core has achieved.

 

[ItWasJustified]

It's actually pretty embarrassing the avs have done against expectations. They were primed for multiple Stanley cup visits and multiple cups, yet here we are.

I don't think it's embarrassing for the Avalanche that Landeskog has been out for 3 years or that Nichushkin got himself suspended for loving nose candy two playoffs in a row.

 

[shadow1]

They won a cup. Its still more than Edmonton, Carolina, Dallas and Toronto achieved with their cores- and it remains true in at least 3 of 4 cases even after the season.

But having said that... Rantanen trade was literally biggest WTF I remember.

I mean people talking Erat-Forsberg for ages, but at least there were some logic behind it- team in "win now mode" trades for player who they think increases their chances of winning now. TBH, if Erat hadn't gone to shit almost immediately (management has zero control over such things), that trade wouldn't look so bad.

Here I don't see ANY logic. And its kinda karmatic that he was the player who contributed most in their elimination- textbook case of getting punnished for bad decision.

I didn't like the concept of the trade, or the return, but I understood the logic. Colorado's front office has said that the team wasn't good enough or deep enough, which I agree with. They also said they couldn't come to terms on a contract and couldn't afford to lose Rantanen for nothing via UFA.

I would say they accomplished their goal of being deeper...for like a month. A lot of what they brought in will soon be lost in unrestricted free agency due to limited cap space. They have probably the worst collection of future assets in the entire NHL after sacrificing so many picks and prospects this season.

Big picture view, I have a hunch where things went wrong for the Avalanche:

	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025	2026
2C	Kadri	Kadri	Kadri	Compher	Johansen [~1st] Mittelstadt [Byram]	Nelson [Ritchie, 1st]	???
3C	Compher	Compher	Compher	Eller [2nd]	Colton [2nd]	Coyle [Mittelstadt, Zellers, 2nd]	Coyle

It's just a hunch, though.

 

[CupsOverCash]

If point was healthy not so sure about that one but it probably would still have been. Point was a big part of our team though.