I used to have to write these “thoughts on the Avs at the quarter-pole, the halfway mark, the three-quarters pole and final season wrap-up” stories all the time in my former life as a mainstream media person. And, they were almost always manufactured bullcrap, necessitated by the tyranny of some artificial deadline, with only so much space allowed.
I have no space limitations here and nobody told me to write this. I just want to write about the Avs here, that’s all. The fact that it’s the quarter-pole of the season has nothing (ok, a little) to do with it.