You don’t trade Stars for scrubs. During the worst Game 7 loss in Avalanche history, Martin Necas and Brock Nelson were passengers from start to Finnish.
“We felt we had to get deeper, and not only for this season’s team, but moving forward,” Joe Sakic said Tuesday afternoon when asked about America’s newest Avs-killer, Mikko Rantanen, the elephant no longer in his room. “Just paying three high-end guys and not having a surrounding cast wasn’t going to get it done.”
Only you know who didn’t get it done, in the end?