All this week, we’ll be going division by division previewing the other 30 teams in the NHL. Today: the Central has been home to a dynasty in Chicago and may be seeing another develop in Nashville.
The Colorado Avalanche put together an unbelievably poor campaign in 2016-17. Their league-low 48 points were a full 21 points fewer than the 29th best team in the NHL a season ago. Obviously, pretty much everything went wrong last year for the Avalanche, but their main off-season objective (trading center Matt Duchene) has been, to put it politely, a challenge.