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.