NHL: Five Teams Best Positioned To Win The Stanley Cup In 2022
By Jim Lynch
2. The Colorado Avalanche
The Colorado Avalanche are well-positioned to lead the charge in the west. On paper, they are the best team around with all of their stars playing some great hockey. They have eight players with over 35 points and have been led by Mikko Rantanen who has 32 goals on the year.
The Avalanche were not the loudest team at the deadline, but they made some moves adding Andrew Cogliano, Arrturi Lehkonen, Nico Sturm, and Josh Manson. They added some depth to make them a deeper team for the postseason and are the top team in the league by over five points.
The Avalanche are no doubt going to be the first team to hit 100 points and the crazy thing is they are only 65 games into the season. They are the top team around and are going to have home-ice for all of the playoffs if they can keep playing at the pace they have been at all year.
The Avalanche have great goaltending with Darcy Kuemper in the net and they are going to be a rocking ball in the postseason, that is if they can make it out of the second round something they have struggled with the past few years.