Colorado Avalanche Make Blue Line Worse

By demoting Eric Gelinas to the AHL while keeping lesser defensemen, the Colorado Avalanche have actually made their already bad blue line worse.

The Colorado Avalanche cannot expect to have good defense if they can’t manage their personnel. And they do not seem to be able to manage their personnel.

The team just sent Eric Gelinas down to the San Antonio Rampage after twice putting him on waivers. In the meantime, Francois Beauchemin and Fedor Tyutin continue to get top minutes. Both of these players have been worse this year than Gelinas.

Naturally, everything is about statistics these days. Supposedly the Colorado Avalanche were joining the analytics parade. However, they’re not using that…