At the quarter-point mark of the season, the Colorado Avalanche are at .500 hockey.
The Colorado Avalanche are always going to have their ups and downs. That’s probably true of any team, but I’ve come to the realization that the Avalanche will never be consistent. They’re just too mercurial.
That said, the headline makes the biggest point — they’re above .500 hockey. At the time of writing, they had a 10-8-1 record for 21 points, with a +1 goal differential.
The Avalanche have had a weird schedule. They’ve had four four-day breaks between games — and only two of those were because of the Global Series Games in Sweden. They’ve also already had five back-to-back series. It’s hard to get into a rhythm when you’re not playing a regular style schedule — the players often state they like the every-other or every-two day rhythm.
The Colorado Avalanche are currently the second-youngest team with an average age of 25.5. That’s a lot of youth — indeed, the team is in an unofficially offical youth movement. Coach Jared Bednar has even remarked that they want the team to “grow up” together.
Well, there are always going to be growing pains. As the Colorado Avalanche settle into their rebuild-cum-youth movement, let’s see how they’re doing around the quarter-point of the season.