This year's team has plenty of positives, which is why the Avalanche are a favorite to hoist the Stanley Cup for a second time in three seasons.
in an injury-filled 2022-23 season that still ended with their third straight division title. Entering the first round of the postseason against Seattle, the Avalanche had experience on their side with 18 players on the playoff roster from the Stanley Cup title-winning team the year before . Valeri Nichushkin, one of their most valuable players from the year before, missed the final five games of the playoffs for personal reasons.
In net, there's Georgiev, whose 40 wins were a career high.Secondary scoring to complement Rantanen and MacKinnon. They will be without Landeskog, their longtime captain, for a second straight season. He remains optimistic of an eventual return after undergoing cartilage replacement surgery in May on his knee. Colorado will be banking on getting some scoring help from Johansen, Colton and Drouin. Johansen had a 26-goal season in 2021-22 with Nashville.
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