Colorado Avalanche facing potential franchise-changing summer

Written by: Brandon Schneider

On April 9, before the final game of the 2015-16 Colorado Avalanche regular season was held, Executive Vice President and General Manager Joe Sakic held a press conference to discuss the team’s performance during the season. The message Sakic conveyed that day was this: there will be changes. However, despite the wishes from some of the fan base, not among those changes is the firing of Head Coach Patrick Roy, who Sakic firmly stated would be back.

“Yes he will,” he said.

“We’re in this thing together. We’re all learning. He’s got the passion, he’s a winner, he wants to win. The players know exactly what he wants. You don’t always look at the coach. For us right…