Colorado Avalanche fans might feel like they’re staring into an abyss. We hear over and over about how bad the team is, worst in the salary cap era, going to finish significantly lower than the #29 team.
Well, it is bad. Coach Mike Babcock once famously said “There’s pain coming” about the Toronto Maple Leafs rebuild. While neither Jared Bednar nor Joe Sakic warned of the pain we’d be feeling, it’s there.
However, the team isn’t the worst we’ve ever seen in Denver, and this current inception isn’t even the worst in franchise history.