For Colorado Avalanche fans, the activities surrounding late January to late February — the All Star Weekend and Stadium Series Game — distracted us from how the team had started to decline. Sure, we saw that the numbers weren’t as great as they had been during the playoff push, but they weren’t nearly as bad as the slow start.
Yet that transitional period led to the eventual disappointing end of the season. For me, it all started with the Stadium Series Game, and for that reason I purposely left it off of the last post. I’m going to start with that game as part of the team’s slow collapse.