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Ryan O’Reilly’s return to Denver re-ignites conflicting emotions

You can’t hide your lyin’ eyes
And your smile is a thin disguise
I thought by now you’d realize
There ain’t no way to hide your lyin eyes

With the untimely death of Eagles founder Glenn Frey, I found myself listening my way through some of my favorite songs by the classic rock group when I stumbled across this particular verse. Given the return of Ryan O’Reilly to Denver for the first time since his trade to the Buffalo Sabres this past summer, it was with a particularly nasty sting the verse played through my headphones as I began confronting the two-faced nature of O’Reilly’s dramatic Avalanche tenure.