Denver Post sports writer Corey Masisak opens up the Avs Mailbag periodically throughout the season. Pose an Avalanche- or NHL-related question for the Avs Mailbag .

No other team in the West looks very strong right now. But which team other than the Avs is most likely to make it out of the West to the Stanley Cup Final?

— thriller1 via Reddit

The boring answers here are still probably the correct ones. It’s still hard to see anyone outside of Colorado, Dallas, Edmonton or Vegas reaching the Stanley Cup Final, with Winnipeg as a wild card if Connor Hellebuyck ever gets over his postseason struggles.

Anaheim, Chicago, San Jose and Utah are all up-and-coming and talented. Any of them making the playoffs would be fun. None of them is winning three rounds in 2026. At some point beyond t

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