It’s never easy watching a team get eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs - especially the way the Colorado Avalanche went down last night. Regardless of what you think of the offside review goal that was called back, there’s no going back. The season is over and we now head into a summer that has the potential to be the most exciting in a long time.
This is a team that looked dead in the water for the first two months of 2019. They were able to turn things around without any major additions - until Cale Makar in the playoffs - and turned into a team that fell one game short of making the Western Conference Final.