If you haven’t already figured it out by now, the kids up in The Grading The Week offices can be a rather cynical lot. Like a lot of Coloradans, they trust dogs way more than they trust humans at this point. No agendas. Other than squirrels, no hate.
But every now and then, humanity finds a way to make those prunes beating inside our collective chests swell with pride.
Especially the humanity that showed up Wednesday night at Ball Arena for one of the most remarkable moments our crusty greybeards have ever seen.
Team GTW doesn’t like to kiss — and some of our crew haven’t been kissed in months — and tell, but our hockey correspondents had this exchange with a local television personality before Avalanche-Stars Game 3 as we watched Gabe Landeskog and Landy’s magic knees skate into history:
“Never seen anything like this,” they said.