What's going on in Colorado? Is it simply goaltending or is the team a mess?
They lost some depth and are dealing with multiple injuries yet again.
Nichushkin was suspended in May and can’t return until at least November.
Lehkonen had shoulder surgery in May and hasn’t come back yet.
Drouin played in the 1st game and then got injured.
If you look at this projected line-up that’s means they’re without 3 players from their top 6 plus this has Landeskog.
Landeskog hasn’t played since they won the Cup in 2022, but he was skating this summer until he had a mysterious setback.
This current forwards line-up has obvious depth issues:
Less is missing from the defense, but if you look again at that projected line-up, they got the bottom pair wrong.
They traded Brannstrom to Vancouver in Tucker Poolman cap dump. Kylington lost his spot in the top 6.
Sam Milinski and Calvin de Haan won the last two spots.
Then both Toews and de Haan got injured after the 2nd game, which is how they ended up with this vs the Isles:
Finally, yeah, the goaltending is struggling.