We’ve talked recently about how the battle atop the Central Division will be something absolutely brutal with Dallas, Winnipeg and Colorado beating each other about last season and now with Nashville getting into it with their monster summer of signings, it’s even more difficult.
The Avalanche don’t have a lot of holes, and you could argue they don’t really have any, but one thing they lack in comparison to Dallas, Winnipeg and Nashville is an elite goalie. Alexandar Georgiev is very good, but we saw some cracks in the armor last season and after Colorado was bounced in the second round by Dallas, the questions haven’t gone away. If Colorado splurged and acquired Jeremy Swayman from Boston, however, the only question remaining would be whether or not they’d win the Stanley Cup.
Adding Swayman to an already loaded Avalanche roster would be the closest thing fans in Denver have seen that would be like their Avs’ heyday in the late 90s and early 2000s with Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy. The mind boggles at the idea and would make us think a lot more about Raymond Bourque for some reason…
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