During a lighter moment at Ball Arena last week, sometime between the 10th or 11th goal the Avalanche slapped on Mike Smith’s tab, KOA’s Brandon Krisztal leaned over and asked me this:
“So which guy do you think actually ends up playing in a higher percentage of his team’s regular-season games over the life of their Denver contract?”
“Who are my choices?”
“Kris Bryant with the Rockies? Or Michael Porter Jr. with the Nuggets?”
“Ooooh. Tough one, man.”
“I know, right?”
Two bad backs. Two awful contracts.