Colorado Avalanche: Brad Stuart Injury A Blessing

Colorado Avalanche defenseman Brad Stuart is out long term after back surgery. Discover why that’s a good thing for the team.

Don’t ask me why the Colorado Avalanche traded for Brad Stuart in 2014. Don’t ask me why they signed him to a two-year deal prior to him ever playing for the organization. Both events were baffling and made no sense at the time.

It’s like Joe Sakic and Patrick Roy had a conversation that started with, “How do we improve the defense?”, took a shot of whiskey for every good defenseman there is in the league, and were so drunk that when they finally got to Stuart’s name they decided to trade for him because his name is on the Stanley Cup and they hate 2nd round draft…