10 Takeaways: Do These Recent Avalanche Losses Matter?
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Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn Images We’re at a weird point of the season where the Avalanche are losing a lot of games that they probably should win pretty easily.
Not all of them need to look like the one they had against Calgary, but there have been far too many losses to teams outside of the playoff picture. But given how they looked against the Dallas Stars — a game they played nearly perfectly and did so without Cale Makar — do these losses even matter? I’ve been a firm believer that they should at least clean up some of the bad habits that have hurt them in these games.
But they did. They did it against the Stars in a game that you know each one of them wanted to play their best. Ultimately, if the Avalanche lose more of these late-season games and then go on to win the Stanley Cup, nobody will remember how the regular season ended.
But I’m still conflicted on how much, if at all, we should take from these losses. “It’s strictly commitment. It’s all it is.