Colorado Avalanche 2024-25 Season Preview

The Colorado Avalanche come into this season with the same expectations of winning the Stanley Cup that have come to define them every preseason for the last five years or so.
They are a team that prides itself on its laser focus on competing for the sport’s ultimate prize, which they won just two seasons ago in 2022.
While it’s only been two years, it feels like many more given the chaos that has ensued since. Gabe Landeskog has not played a single second since the clock struck zero in Tampa Bay that night and Val Nichushkin has been into the Player Assistance Program three times, the most recent of which resulted in a league-mandated six-month suspension.
They have been in salary cap limbo…