No team plays the same schedule. The Avs will play each team from the East 2x... 32 games there. Pacific teams 3x. Then Central teams 3 or 4x. This year the 4x teams in the Central are Arizona, Chicago, Dallas, Minnesota, and St Louis. They miss the extra games against Winnipeg and Nashville. Again against Winnipeg they play 2x at home. Nashville is twice on the road.
So the Avs got to skip 2 of the harder Central games (only easier path would be swapping Nashville and Dallas). They play 3 bottom 10 teams 4x. And the 30th and 31st teams 3x.
Pretty much every SOS rating out there has the Avs between 28th and 32nd. With a projection to 26th-30th.