Confession time: The puck heads on the Grading The Week (GTW) staff have probably called the Presidents’ Trophy worse things than any of your relatives have called any of the last five U.S. presidents.
And we’d like to take all of it back. Well, most of it.
Because it’s looking like the Avalanche might need you, Mr. Presidents’ Trophy.
Not so much because Avs GM Chris MacFarland has to prove to the free world that he built the NHL’s best regular-season team in ’25-26. (Although he has.) Oh, no. The Avs need to do whatever it takes to nail down the No.