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What’s Going On With The Avalanche?
by Paul on 07/12/09 at 08:47 AM ET
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from Terry Frei of the Denver Post,
The Avalanche, once the envy of so many NHL cities because of the assembled talent and the sellout streak that ultimately reached 487 games, now has been transformed into a franchise jumping on the chance to “get young” and “rebuild” with a little too much enthusiasm.
That enthusiasm is all about money….
Now, in the wake of Joe Sakic’s retirement, it looks as if the Avalanche will end up with major cap room for next season. The rationalization will be leaving more room for flexibility in the future in what everyone knows has to be a rebuilding process.
Detroit isn’t the model. The model is Pittsburgh, which had elite draft choices and a payroll that has increased as their phenoms (e.g., Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Marc-Andre Fleury) matured and got beyond their first contracts. But this also is coming off as an ownership mandate that, well, the Avs are going to be rotten, anyway, so they might as well cut payroll to threaten the league-mandated minimum of $40.8 million.
Rebuilding doesn’t have to be the excuse for a complete scorched-earth policy.
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