Colorado Avalanche Tickets

Colorado Avalanche Tickets

The first year of rebuilding is supposed to be difficult, as is the second. However, the second season is supposed to be much better. Now, the Colorado Avalanche tickets to the Pepsi Center are being rumored for a worse second season. Nay, we say. The management has made the kind of changes to mentor a young team and move up in the standings for the Northwest Division. They have added a player with grit and are simply waiting for a few pivot players to anchor an offense.

Specifically, P-A Parenteau has come over from the Islanders with an eye for setting up his teammates. He also can play a little defense, which is going to be useful when trying to keep Semyon Varlamov from getting into trouble in the net. Varlamov will need protection from the defensemen. Erik Johnson is one of those defensemen and he has the potential to do much more than his paltry offensive additions last season. Johnson is more of a stay at home defender at the NHL level than he was in college.

The offense’s biggest potential comes at the center position. Paul Stastny, Matt Duchene, and Ryan O’Reilly are the young up-and-comers with the chance to give the team more than one players with more than 20 goals over the course of the season. Their lines will likely change, but it appears O’Reilly is the best two-way option of the group. If the veterans (Milan Hejduk and Steve Downie) can remain healthy and young guns (Statsny, Duchene, Gabriel Landeskog) can make a few strides then the Avalanche have a chance to improve upon a dismal 25^th in offense in the NHL.

Colorado should be improving its offense and goaltending for the 2012-2013 season and the defense is not getting any worse, so these predictions placing them even further down the standings and rankings in the Western Conference are unfounded and frankly just lazy. Avalanche tickets will be available to see these players prove those experts wrong.