Mystery Behind Avalanche’s Stunning Meltdown: What Went Wrong in Their Shocking Collapse?
“They were missing their best ‘D’ and maybe their best forward, (and) we still couldn’t beat them,” MacKinnon said. “Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know what we’re going to do.”
Any playoff loss is gutting. It feels like someone took a melon baller and carved out your insides, heart and soul and all. But for Colorado, the stakes were higher, the damage greater, the agony more excruciating. The Avalanche were a trendy pick to not just win the series but win it all. The Stars were wounded and vulnerable. The Avalanche were dramatically remade and reinvigorated ahead of the trade deadline, with MacFarland aggressively adding the center depth they’ve lacked (Brock Nelson, Charlie Coyle and Jack Drury) and the goaltending (Mackenzie Blackwood, Scott Wedgewood) they’ve needed. Landeskog was on his way back.
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