The Colorado Avalanche are treading water and attempting to turn that into swimming upstream. Today they face the St. Louis Blues, who miraculously went from “Poor me, let’s sell off all our assets” to third in the Central Division.
As we all to well know, the Avs went from the Wonderkids of the Central to repeat underdogs. I swear, they don’t know how to be in the dominant position anymore.
Anyway, the 57-point Avalanche are still in playoff contention by virtue of the majority of the Central being surprisingly mediocre. Well, it ain’t over until the team’s been mathematically eliminated, and that hasn’t happened yet.