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Avalanche Defense: It’s Even Worse than It Seems

It’s something we’ve known for quite some time now, the Colorado Avalanche tends to be terrible defensively. Not only the defensemen often don’t know what they’re doing, but the forwards are contributing equally. They do their best to keep the puck away from the net — 41 blocked shots against the Anaheim Ducks — but that can’t be the way to go. However, even after the Ducks game, I had no idea how bad the Avalanche’s D-state really is.

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