The Avs have made it a long way. From being last in the league only five seasons ago to the center of the hockey world today when it hosts the twice-champion Tampa Bay Lightning in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Finals.
Gone are the days when top players wanted out because they viewed the Avalanche as an NHL outpost that would grind and claw just to make the postseason, but were too many steps from raising the Stanley Cup.
“Colorado is going to be an unbelievable challenge,” Lightning general manager Julien BriseBois said Tuesday. “They are a phenomenal team. They probably have a bunch of all-time great players when it’s all said and done.” “He leads by example, but then isn’t afraid to step up and challenge our team and challenge different individuals and keep trying to drive our team to raise the bar in all kids of different areas,” Avs coach Jared Bednar said.
MacKinnon, like Landeskog, made the major junior hockey-to-NHL jump and had 10 points in seven playoff games in the 2014 postseason. But then he struggled. He was durable but scored 14, 21 and 16 goals in Years 2-4.
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