Colorado Avalanche: If The Avs Win The Cup, They Will…

What would the Colorado Avalanche players do with their “Day With The Cup”? Let’s take a look.

In just a matter of hours the Stanley Cup Finals might come to an end. But as the finals are cancelled for me this year, my mind decided to wander to other realms, or possibly the (near) future, and so I’ve been thinking: What would some of the Colorado Avalanche players do with the Stanley Cup?

You know the tradition: Every player gets a “Day with the Cup” and they pretty much do whatever they like with it, from eating cereal out of it to drinking some rather exotic drinks from it. But the Colorado Avalanche are no basic Lucky Charms hockey players (sorry, Tom Wilson. I still appreciate you, though)… at least not all of them.

Starting with the captain, Gabriel Landeskog. Our beloved captain would go around Stockholm with the Cup, taking pics with passersby every 10 seconds, always smiling and looking like the model he is. He would then meet with what I call “the Swedish contingent”, which is comprised by all Swedish NHLers that are back in town (Elias Lindholm, John Klingberg, William Nylander, to name a few). What they do with the Cup is a mystery, but it would probably include some very Swedish drinks.

Our boy Nathan MacKinnon would take the Cup to a community center or something like that where kids can take pics with him and the Cup and also play some good ol’ hockey with him – not before a motivational speech by Nate, of course. Sidney Crosby would probably join because, as we all know, they are Best Nova Scotia Buds.

Mikko Rantanen would probably do something sneaky, taking it to places where he shouldn’t. Or everywhere, literally. Mikko and the Cup go to the movies. Mikko and the Cup go to the supermarket. Mikko and the Cup go to a fast-food restaurant. Instant best friends.

Then we have Tyson Barrie, who would obviously take the Cup to Dairy Queen and turn it into the biggest Blizzard he has seen (I wonder if it would be M&M’s Blizzard or something else?), with his good friend Jamie Benn by his side.

Landeskog would drink water from it – the horse, not the captain. Our beloved Condor, Erik Johnson, would bring the Cup to meet the horses, and of course he would let Landeskog, aka The Horse, drink from it. And he would totally, absolutely, 100% post a pic of that on Instagram.

Alexander Kerfoot would be in a minor dilemma between wanting to take it to Harvard and taking it home, in Vancouver. Meanwhile, Tyson Jost would be the (other) ice-cream guy. Hold the rainbow sprinkles, he wouldn’t even know (I’m so sorry, I had to). As for J.T Compher… well, you’ll have to help me with this one because our ginger kid is still a mystery to me, but he might go join Josty and Kerfy on their respective days. I just don’t know what he would do on his.

As for Philipp Grubauer… well, we already know what he does with on his day with the Cup.

May we come back to this post a year from now, when the Colorado Avalanche win the Stanley Cup, 19 years after the last time. Or two years from now. Something in my heart tells me it won’t be too long before we see Gabriel Landeskog holding the Stanley Cup above his head. I’m already emotional thinking about it.