Some teams had off years and can easily bounce back next season, while some seem destined for mediocrity at best.
A first round loss is never fun to deal with: a whole season spent working towards building your team up for a playoff run, only for it to end just as it was beginning. If you’re a team consistently contending for championships, it’s disappointing to see the season end well short of your goal. If you’re a team struggling to get over that first round hump and win a series, it’s agonizing knowing you have to wait another year before you get another shot at it.
Another reason why they’re easily in the best spot out of this group is that they were dealing with a lot of injuries this season. Only four players played all 82 games last season, and captain Gabriel Landeskog missed the entire season, so having an extended offseason to rehabilitate may be a blessing in disguise for the Avs’ early playoff exit.
The only reason they aren’t higher up on this list is that they lack that true game-breaking player on their roster. There’s a lot of good pieces, especially Kevin Fiala, but no one you can really point to as being “the guy” on their roster. Sure, Anze Kopitar and Drew Doughty were that for them in their 2012 and 2014 Cup runs, but their best days are behind them.
The indecisiveness is what partially drops them so low on this list, but it’s also the fact that either option is not one built for immediate success with this group. If they blow it up, they obviously won’t be good next year as they look to rebuild, and it might be particularly ugly because the time to really rebuild was this year with a player like Connor Bedard on the table.
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