Everything in place and a place for everything.

What began with team bonding at the captain’s house, the annual golf outing and spirited workouts at Family Sports Cente r, can end only in one place for the Avs’ season to be a success.

With Gabe Landeskog raising the Stanley Cup on the ice.

This expectation was a burden for the last three years, largely without the Captain. It is now the challenge we put on the franchise with Martin Necas a pending free agent and a Brinks truck new contract needed for Cale Makar after this season. The Avs have had too much disappointment — or playoff chokes to put it less politely — and made too many wise additions to expect anything less than a title.

An eye-opening regular season matters little, other than securing home-ice advantage. Winning

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