Is the Central Division envious of the Colorado Avalanche forward core?

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🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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0:00.0	Welcome in to the DNVR Avalanche podcast. We've got Biggie. We've got A.J. We've got Ruto coming to you live.
0:07.7	Wrapping up our Central Division series of positional rankings. We've done goalies. We've done defense.
0:16.3	It's time to do forwards in the Central Division. Now, we've had some pretty clear-cut things.
0:24.6	I think clearly we've seen Chicago at the bottom of the Central Division,
0:29.6	teams like Colorado, Dallas, and Winnipeg towards the top of the division.
0:34.6	But, you know, the forward course kind of separate the men from the boys
0:39.7	in a lot of ways in this division. There is 12 guys is a lot of guys. I'll put it to you that way.
0:48.7	It's the majority of your lineup, even if, you know, maybe there is more importance in a single
0:54.5	position at goaltender or you have defensemen that are going to play significant minutes.
1:00.0	The bulk of a lineup is a forward core. So we've talked about this before and, you know,
1:09.3	maybe AJ and I think a defense might matter more for a team as a whole.
1:14.2	Talk about it as a connective tissue.
1:16.4	But at the end of the day, scoring goals is the objective of a hockey team.
1:22.6	Yeah, you got to score.
1:24.3	You got a score, man.
1:26.5	Can't win if you never score. It matters quite a bit. And we will see, honestly, across this division, there is a ridiculous amount of talent at Forward. You know, even a team like Chicago has a Connor Bidard at the top of that list.
1:47.3	Regardless, I know everyone likes to say, oh, well, Connor Bidard, not as good as he was built.
1:51.6	Okay, he's still a really good forward.
1:53.8	Like, it's interesting to me that we ended up in this Thunderdome
2:02.7	once again in the Central Division it seems somehow some way
2:08.2	the Central Division always finds a way to be incredibly competitive
2:14.4	yeah i mean i think it's just a mark of well-run organizations.
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