Has Colorado’s core underachieved?.

[nbwingsfan]

Nah, it's just the fact that Sakic, Forsberg and Roy were a very dangerous 3-headed trio that nobody wanted the smoke with in the playoffs. From 1996-2004, both were respectively 1-2 in playoff scoring during that time stretch. 2nd place Forsberg (148pts) had a 42pt lead on Fedorov (106pts) and Roy lead with wins and sv% IIRC.

Hockey's a random game obvioulsy, but that Avs team had multiple chances of advancing to the cup finals where it was all but certain they would win vs whoever eastern team that made it to the last dance.

Their individual STAR POWER was something else

That’s significantly better than the Wings with Fed, Yzerman, Shanahan, Lidstrom, Coffey, Hasek etc?

Or Modano, Hull, Zubov, Belfour, etc?

Or Elias, Gomez, Niedermeyer, Stevens, Brodeur?

were some super franchises back then

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

The Avs drafting seriously let them down during this most recent stretch. If they had just average drafting abilities alongside the MacKinnon, Rantanen, Makar trio they likely would've won another cup or two, and have a longer contention window. Instead, they have league worst drafting and that's led to a cycle of hoping internal players magically become significantly better than they've ever demonstrated, followed by desperation moves

 

[KJoe88]

Yes. lol

 

[Jixer19]

They have a cup, if that is underachieving, then what is the play/definition of all the cores that don't have one? There is a reason the Stanley Cup is the hardest to win in all sports

 

[GMR]

No, because Edmonton/Toronto still haven’t won a Cup with their current group. Maybe that changes soon but it just shows you how difficult it is to win one Stanley Cup.

 

[Tryblot]

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.

 

[landy]

Exceeded expectations:
Penguins
Blackhawks
Kings
Blues
Lightning

Underachieved:
Avalanche
Capitals
Bruins

Everyone else:
lol

Ill take underachieving all day every day then.

 

[ProfessorFink22]

Many of us will never see our teams win a Stanley Cup in our lifetimes. there's a 1/32 chance to win one each year, soon to be 1/36. If you told me I'd get to see my team win even once in my lifetime, I'd take it, happily. Even "only" winning one cup is not underachieving, IMO.

 

[LEAFANFORLIFE23]

No, they won a championship.

It's that simple