How the Colorado Avalanche Built the Best Team in Hockey! 

That's how dynasty's get built, players willing to stick around for perhaps less money than what there worth. Not many in the league willing to do that anymore. Ironically look at Stamkos and Kuch who both did just that.

For sure!!

We will see...for all the promise,& great moves/talent...Avs haven't even got to WCFs in 20 yrs, forget the Cup. They gotta get out of the 2nd round at a MINIMUM this year... probably need to at least reach the Cup Finals,for it to be a truely successful season.

Sakic is great but Yzerman built Tampa and theoretically has 2 cups and 3 finals with the team he made. Red wings are coming for the cup in 5 years or less

@@becausereasons41 I don't disagree at all. Sakic has made his mistakes...eh the disaster of Patrick Nemeth,& Soderburg as our deadline last season,but overall he's been great. But Yzerman is 1 of the few gms,I'd put above Joe right now. Amazing how similar they were as players...& now as gms. And I expect Detroit will probably be back to the Cup Finals in the next 3 years or so....maybe against the Avs.

@@jasonsmith5226 that finals would be amazing. Yzerman vs Sakic! The reunion of the late 90s early 00s all star captains. I've always hated the avs as a wings fan, but I'll give respect where respect is due, Sakic and others were amazingly good. I think the avs or panthers are winning it all this year, hopefully they vs each other in the finals! Good luck to you and the avs, see you in a few years hopefully

That’s awesome and glad to hear you’re back into the game ! Gonna be an extremely exciting playoffs !!

I was 10 years old in '96. Me and my family were at Lakeside amusement park in Denver and I begged my dad to take me home early so I can watch the game you mentioned. I feel asleep halfway through the game but woke up when the Avs scored in OT. Cheers brother!

That’s good to hear and for sure man!

I had the pleasure of meeting Makar back in 2019 in Tim Hortons. Very Canadian I know lol and seriously the most down to earth dude ever. And watching him im like yep 48 point season was totally worth it lol

Top 3 team in the league? Try top 1.

Same here bro, and I wasn’t even around for the last cup win

I’m a wild fan. Hoping they can win their first round matchup cause it’s always an exciting series when the Wild and Avs play.

@@bonecoldfleasaustin no guarantee wild will play Avs if They get to 2nd rd. Avs play lowest remaining seed

@@Vipersinferno not with this format. Avs would play probably Vegas first round then the winner of the Wild/blues in the second. It be a central team vs pacific team in the conference finals unless Dallas and Nashville make it and beat the pacific teams

That’s really cool! And glad to hear they’re all reasonably nice, kadri is having an unreal year!

@@DropthePuckHockey I look at Kadri like Marchand. Extremely annoying, but undeniably good at the game. And I’ll judge you based on how you treat service industry workers. Every Denver athlete and company so far has been great to us.

@Tyson Chacon I feel like even though sports have rivalries, but I will almost only judge you on how you treat service staff. They all have been amazing. Glad to see them doing to well in the playoffs this year! I guess I haven’t signed an NDA, but also we do value our clientele’s privacy. I guess I can tell you I work at a Wine Bar in downtown but I would rather not say the name

Damn thats cool. Yeah I have friends in toronto that have met Kadri. They say he's a really nice guy.

@@xCestLaVie1 man. It’s weird because I don’t know these guys really. But tbh, the way you treat service staff says everything about you. Seeing these guys win the cup is awesome. Wish me luck in the streets of Denver tonight! 😂

Try about a week before training camp...

2 weeks lol

He's gotta do what he's gotta do. Heard they tried to get him back but ain't a fairytale lol

Yeah, didn’t spend too much time on him in the vid, but he was an absolute steal no doubt. Ik the islanders had some cap issues but I still don’t understand why they traded him and couldn’t make it work. Toews and makar are an unreal d-pairing

Toewes gets so overlooked cuz of Makar,& even Byrum sometimes,I wonder how many Av fans-let alone NHL fans-know Toewes was 9th in Norris last year,& is averaging over 1 point per game this season-hes on like 85 point pace for 82. There's no question he's a top 7-10 defenseman in the NHL. But he gets so overlooked,cuz Makar might be the best,at such a young age. But understanably,Toewes is probably a bit more consistent deffensively than Makar,at this stage of their careers. Toewes is vastly superior defensively to Morgan Reilly.And for much of the season,Toewes was slightly outscoring Makar per game. Obviously not in goals,Makar is 2nd to no defenseman there.

@Brandon Sparkes that’s a pretty big generalization. Got any channels you can recommend for me to check out then?

oh how right you are about the contribution from Toews in the ploffs

@@jacobdaugherty4496 I consider Sakic and Yzerman to be 2 of the best GMs in the league. The way they run business and the insight they have into players is incredible. The job sakic has done is amazing

They won it for Mackinnon though ;)

Dosent matter any more

@@Elias-op4jg fucking Stanley cup finals boyo

@@canadian__ninja yessss

Makar will go down as the best #4 pick in history. He's this generation's Bobby Orr.

Yeah, so many sneaky pickups and signings !

@Brandon Sparkes Toews wasn’t brought in as an underwhelming player. He was somewhat under the radar but it was known he was developing into a good defenseman. It was the islanders making a decision because of the flat cap that forced the trade

@Brandon Sparkes yah, see that I can definitely agree with. Good point!

No doubt, that 2015 draft was so stacked and they lucked out getting makar who kinda flew under the radar imo

@@DropthePuckHockey his hobey baker season was crazy

Rantanen was 10th overall. Just wanted to correct you on that. Yes, he was a godsend pick! He made MacKinnon so much better and vice versa. A perfect match. The Kurri to his Gretzky. The Selanne to his Kariya. The Finnish Canadian duo is one of the best ever in hockey.

Yup my bad i really though it was at 15 but you get the point

The aves have also been shafted by the lottery they were odds on favorite for 1st overall 2 out of 3 years and both times fell as far as possible. Could you imagine if they got luckier in the lottery

Hopefully they can finish the job

Yeah those guys are amazing to watch, avs are on fire, hope they keep it up!

Love the passion and glad you stuck with the team through the hard years! Would definitely be happy to see the avs win it this year if my team gets knocked out!

@@DropthePuckHockey yeah I’ve had a roller coaster of emotions for the Avs and now I’m more hopeful than ever

You are describing my AVS fandom to a T as well...go AVS!

@@isaacklostermann3936 yeah and unlike those Tampa Bay fans we don’t bandwagon

Colorodeon? Vegas can take you

Love it man, not many weaknesses on that roster right now, hoping they can pull it off this year, we’ll see!

Makar is the key to the whole puzzle. He's going to be the backbone of this team for many years to come.

Yep, hopefully they can go for a run this year

Me too. We all had high expectations these past few years, but this is our year!

They're outmatching every team they face. Really amazing team, love Sakic - from my home town.

Can they finish the job now ??

They did. GG go avs. I’m kind of glad they did it against Tampa Bay and not the Rangers. Tampa Bay is a way better team and solidifies their win even more

Bednar doesn't makeany trades.

Thanks !! And ya that’s a pretty unreal stretch, all of those teams were so good at that time

@@DropthePuckHockey As much as I hated em...'02 Wings are best team I've ever seen...'01 Avs (with Forsberg) are probably#2. Granted I've only followed the NHL closely since '95-not including teams before that. But the post cap teams just can't compare depth wise,& star power...it's impossible with a cap. Avs would add a HOFer every deadline...Wings 4 in the off-season,after winning 2 Cups. Even teams like TB or Colorado today would get killed by those teams. Fortunately these Avs only have to beat the teams of today. And we really need to at least get to the Cup Finals. Think they have a good shot regardless,but Byram back healthy,& a trade maybe for a Giroux,or someone similar,would sure help. If Byrum doesn't come back this year,they might need to trade for dman-take care.

Aged like fine wine this season! 👌 lets go Avs!!!

That’s awesome haha! And very true, we’ll see what happens in the playoffs, it’s gonna be insane this year !

If being put in their place is only having 2 cups during those rivalry years, I guess that's not too bad. How many would the Wing's have won without Colorado in the way??? Trust me, I'll be thinking of the Dead things watching from home should we win this year, and hopefully more over the next few. Never forget, never forgive :)

Fun reading how many of these comnents have aged so poorly.

That’s cool and very true!

Thanks so much!

They are looking good!

No doubt man, they are a force, I agree they should go on a run and maybe win the cup !

@@DropthePuckHockey yup Macky landy and mikko are beasts and our second and third lines are better then some teams first lines

@@DropthePuckHockey also throw Cale in there too

Spoken like a true gentleman

Let’s. Gooooooo

Thank you !!

That would be really cool

Legit haha, makar was an unreal pick at #4

Ikr

Top video!!! Just subscribed!..I'm surprised I've only just found this channel!!!..👍

That’s really cool man, those are some avs legends for sure! And thanks so much, appreciate you showing love!

@@adammaxwell5250 g’day mate! I’m from Queensland

Thanks so much !

Very true ! And thanks so much!

Haaha thanks

For sure!

Legit tho, I picked Vegas last year and they got close, I think Colorado will get it done this year but who knows there are so many good teams , and I hope so too haha

Avs fan here , Sabres are a close 2nd in my heart. Living close in proximity to Buffalo I've seen many Sabres games , vs the Avs of course. As a kid I met all the big dogs , Crozier , French Connection , Schoenfeld, Rene Robert ect. Some of the Sabre players used to visit a local area near where I lived , great guys. Even sat behind Punch Imlach and his wife at a game as a youngster , his wifes hair was so big I could barely see past it lol. I hope whole heartidly that the Sabres become a power house soon , they are definately off to a good start.

@@randycarr8824 Good stuff! Thank you for sharing.

can say its because of mckinnon ect, but the WHOLE team has to contribute, this is a good area to work in and very supportive imo. Instead of new players be sent to do fuck all when they are actually the ones to be sent out to shine was shown here with their side lines being top players

They for sure have the potential to, gotta start with one, could be this year I think!

Hey they’ve said that about a lot of teams before they won cups

@@DropthePuckHockey too true lol

Hope you don't look back on this comment.

@@Peilla still a funny way to describe a team that can't get out if the second round

I’d probably say either savoie or cooley, don’t think you could go wrong with either of those, also depends how Lambert finishes out the season

People were still calling Tampa the best team in hockey before they won, and then they went back to back. Could be the same with Colorado, we’ll see!

@@DropthePuckHockey I wasn't and I'm a bolts fan, Colorado looks amazing but so did the 2019 lightning until columbus broke out those brooms, not saying that will happen to Colorado but until they win a cup they are just another flashy high scoring team that's fun to watch in the regular season but fails when it matters.

@@Molonlabe07 fair enough haha, I try to appreciate dominance even in the regular season but can’t wait for playoffs!

Nice comment.

@@Peilla I stand by what I said, Colorado had to win the cup to be the best, they did exactly that.

Would definitely be cool to see at some point

Ya idk why I thought he quit, but that would be something if he went back to Montreal some day

@@jourdeflamme8235 and you are a old know-it-all

@@jourdeflamme8235 That's way too harsh. It was a quality video overall, and I (hardcore Avs fan) enjoyed it thoroughly.

Macdermid is another guy that could step in

Thank you ! Go avs

Yep, it should be a really fun final!

@ForecastCold ???? ROY was and remains A person WITHOUT CLASS ...if not truly sociopathic tendencies found in way too many professional athletes from Pete Rose and Barry Bonds across the board of any North American professional league to the aforementioned Roy and his former teammate Claude Lemieux. HOF G Patrick Roy was COMPLETELY WITHOUT CLASS or decency at one of the last games played by the Wings at the famed and historic FORUM in Montreal; when the DRW lit him up for 9 goals. So barely two years removed from a Stanley Cup Championship and winner of a Conn Smythe Throphy, G Roy was humiliatingly cheered in faux fashion by hometown fans after every stop made after falling behind 7-1! Roy had been upset for the firing of head coach Jacques Demers who led them to the Cup. As a DRW fan I understood that since many did not like that Demers was fired from Detroit before going to Montreal. So there were already hard feelings between Roy and Montreal management and his then coach. YET I have already commented to @Drop the Puck ...and he commented himself in regards to the mostly joyful disposition of G Marc André Fleury ...these are grown men playing a game that children learn to play and enjoy. They make an obnoxious amount of money doing it. When Roy cannot laugh at himself or the irony of his situation ...at his size he actually became a dangerous man on the ice with a lethal weapon called a hockey stick!!! 02 DEC 1995 Roy stormed off the ice at the Forum after surrendering 9 goals to the DRW. He told the GM in the stands seated by the players bench he wanted out of Montreal loud enough for many fans and members of the press to hear. He did NOT use polite language (in French?) as I understand it! While Roy did not have the best team in front of him defensively, for the premier goalie in the NHL at that time it WAS A COMPLETE EMBARRASSMENT!!! In retrospect for all the stats and HOF accolades etc. ...ROY became a very dirty player. His lack of decent social behavior or class on that December night repeated itself many times ...up to his being let go as a coach in Denver. He has acted like a Giant Embittered Whinner many times. I could defend him by honestly saying he never truly earned the head coaching job to begin with ...yet the man is a Pete Rose styled ...albeit enraged sociopath! Many players ...forwards from the DRW team of same era related many times the change in personality that came over Roy after that Dec 1995 game in Montreal. Instead being a goalie who pushed on forwards screening in front of the crease as was commonplace... Patrick Roy took ANY AND EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO NOT ONLY SLASH BUT LITERALLY HACK AT THE BACK OF OPPONENTS LEGS WITH BOTH HANDS ON THE STICK AND JABBED AT THE LOWER BACK WHERE NO PADDING EXISTED. This kind of play could easily CRIPPLE A PERSON FOR LIFE. Roy was NOT KNOWN FOR THIS PRIOR TO DEC 1995! Hockey Reference lists Roy as 6'2" and 185 lbs. from his playing days. This is on the lighter side of EXAGGERATION. He regularly played at 220 to 230 lbs. as Scotty Bowman knew from friends still within the Montreal organization prior to Roy going to Denver. My point? When a large man at 6'2" and 230 lbs. is using one or both hands on a hardened hockey stick to chop at your legs and back ...that is NOT worthy of penalty time ...IT IS WORTHY OF PRISON TIME IN THE REAL WORLD. Trying to clear the area in front of the then new halo shaped goalie crease is not justification for assault-and-battery!!! F Sergei Federov told a Detroit reporter after going to play for Carolina that Roy had the reputation league wide for being the dirtiest goalie and one of the dirtiest players in the game. HOF? Best goalie in History? NOT IN MY BOOK. HORRIFIC human being and NEARLY NEANDERTHAL Patrick Roy!!! He destroyed the career of F Johan Fransson with multiple cheap shots to his lower back... using the butt end of a stick and jabbing at his spine! The list of DIRTY PLAYS GOES ON....Sociopathic Millionaire Patrick Roy!!!!!!!!👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎 FAVORITE PATRICK ROY MOMENTS 1) 02 DEC 1995 DRW score 9 goals on Roy driving him out of the game and Montreal in HUMILIATING FASHION. 2) 1997 WCF DRW win against Roy! 3) 2002 WCF Game #1 May 11(?) 2002 F Darren McCarty a career GRIND LINE PLAYER scores his 1st career hat trick against Roy! In total over his playoff career McCarty scored on Roy 7 or 8 times! For a 4th line player scoring on a goalie who has gone on to the HOF ...this is incredible and AWESOME. Not so incidentally BIG MAC had one of the most powerful slap shots I have ever seen into the upper corners of the net AS WELL AS A WICKED WRIST SHOT! DRW WOULD GO ON TO DEFEAT THE DEFENDING STANLEY CUP CHAMPS in the WCF! 4) 26 MAR 1997 "Fight Night at the Joe (Louis Arena)" in obvious retaliation for a murderous hit Claude Lemieux put on Kris Draper nearly a year prior, C Igor Larianov, who never fought once before takes down Colorado D Forsberg. In the ensuing brawl in which Lemieux is taken out by DRW F McCarty ...G Patrick Roy FOOLISHLY JOINS THE FIGHT. Roy is EASILY taken down by F Brendan Shanahan. When Roy tries to join the fight a second time HE IS PUCHED IN THE FACE BY A MAN NEARLY HALF HIS SIZE IN DRW G MIKE VERNON. The dirty goalie STINKS IN A FACE TO FACE FIGHT ....SOCIOPATHIC COWARD PATRICK ROY QUERY???? NHL TRIVA ....Who scored the winning goal for the DRW on that March 1997 Fight Night @The Joe???? Who else? F Darren McCarty! Got alot of goals on him regular season as well! Did any other NHL franchise light up G Patrick Roy as much as the DRW? DOUBT IT!!!!!

@@lionized_wingnut 2009... I repeat ....2009. Redwings haven't been relevant in years. Roy however, has. Shall we look at who the gm is? You can be offended over something years ago but ... Idk if I'd go as far as you did to anyone I don't personally know. You've never gotten frustrated at your job? Most these athletes run high with emotion. Don't blame them. Let it go.

Ya it would be crazy, but they swept them

Blues in 7!

For sure !

Well we did

Yep, he’s having an unreal season!

I personally think the Avs are more complete than the panthers but I understand. Florida won the presidents and Tampa is the back to back champs but I think this is Colorado’s year

Definitely possible, they are so stacked. But those cup teams really were too

Oh wow did not realize that

Lol 3 way trade

I actually already did make one on the wings, it’s called “ the Detroit red wings will be scary good very soon “

Thanks haah, idk what happened to all those bolts fans in the comments

Ahah they did great. Genuinely enjoyed the playoffs. Other than all the calls and I didn't see a single fight ffs. Good for the avs, well deserved