Fatigue? Don’t call it that. Hockey players never want to hear that.
“I don’t know so much that it’s fatigue,” Cale Makar said recently when asked if the Avalanche’s early stumbles can be attributed to endurance.
Unrelated: The early portion of this schedule is balderdash, Makar said.
“We talked about it at the beginning of the year,” he said. “We were dealt a pretty bad schedule to start the year, and obviously we’re going to have whatever it is, five back-to-backs in a month of October and November here. Which is ridiculous. We talked about it.