This puppy may be Joe Sakic’s masterwork, but it has Jared Bednar’s brush strokes all over the canvas. And before you start up on how any clown with Nathan MacKinnon up front and Cale Makar at the back would be running circles around the Western Conference, consider this:
• When the Broncos lost Bradley Chubb, they won two — then posted a record of 1-4 before Drew Lock came galloping to the rescue.
• While the Nuggets were waiting out Jamal Murray’s ankle, they went 6-4.
• Since Feb.