Colorado Avalanche: Where’s the Fight?
By Ross Sellers
The Colorado Avalanche have five games remaining in the season, and at this point it would take a miracle for them to make it to the playoffs.
Alas, the vents are open and the fumes ready for the spew. In other words, I’m venting and fuming.
And out the door goes objectivity; but — let’s be honest — we’re pretty subjective writers on these Colorado Avalanche centered sites, so I’ll let it go just this once.
Back to the form.
The Colorado Avalanche look likely to miss the playoffs for the second season in a row, and fans have to be wondering what could possibly keep this from happening next year
(the loser point gets scrapped)
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With only five games remaining, the summer blues may be coming like cold fog settling in a valley.
The Colorado Avalanche have to win out.
They play the Washington Capitals on Friday.
The point is easily gathered, but that sort of impactful formulaic style could be done four different times, with four other teams who are very well solidified in playoff spots currently.
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The Colorado Avalanche have to win out.
They Play the Blues again on Sunday.
They have to win out — most likely — and it starts with Washington on Friday, and it may end there. But it might also end in their final game against the Anaheim Ducks. Regardless, the fight has to be there, it has to be.
There is no more reason to fret with the petty troubles of injury, confidence, or ability.
The Colorado Avalanche must begin concerning themselves with the fight. They must tap into an unstoppable drive that will break the barrier between a trifling team incapable of facing adversity, and warriors who face the battle with fierce resolve.
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In other words, the Colorado Avalanche must take responsibility for their actions, and resolve to change the results.
Responsibility can be a tricky thing though. It takes on a burden that is difficult to bear when faced with adversity.
Adversity tests resolve, and exposes responsibility, forcing the bearers to contemplate the burden itself, and decide where they stand.
If they choose to stand by it, the responsibility will lead them through. For example, look at the Anaheim Ducks and Tampa Lightning this year. Their burden was changed into experience because they learned to bear the load through adversity.
Instead, the Colorado Avalanche have shrunk in third periods, and handed opponents games that they should not have won. And, it’s happened from the first game of the season, until just a mere four games ago against the Flyers.
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They haven’t learned.
And maybe they won’t. But, they have to start fighting for something beyond themselves, a goal that can be tangibly represented in their effort to win games.
If it doesn’t happen in the final games this season, then it needs to happen during the summer; the Colorado Avalanche need to develop a winning mentality through any means necessary.
Any means necessary.
I’m sick of being a Colorado Avalanche fan in a stadium full of the opposing team’s chants. I’m sick of seeing a team that looks flattened in front of their home crowd. What’s the cause? The vents have been reopened.
You think the Avs are fond of playing in front of crowd who’s chants get drowned out by the opposition during any important game? That’s like Tom Brady to a football, deflating.
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And if it comes down to personnel changes, then so be it. This team can no longer be haunted by a losing attitude; whatever is necessary to change that, must be done.
And, it starts on Friday. My peace is made.