Those four teams are now in NHL #19, #22, #24 and #27. Avalanche lost to #21 in between. If the idea is to avoid being dead last, sure, great work. If the idea is to get to playoffs, then you need wins against top-8 teams in West. The last games against them: Loss to Canucks, loss to Ducks, loss to Blues, loss to Jets and that's it for the last month.
Lets see what are the results now when opponents the next eight games are CHI-DAL-MTL-CGY-WPG-NSH-WPG-STL. Only one of them is against East and only one of them is against non-playoff team (as of today), so six games to show how good they actually are when compared to Western playoff teams.
What's your point?
Are we supposed to lose against the lower teams because they are lower? Do wins only matter if you face a Top 16 team in the league? I guess every time the Avs face a bad team we should lose on purpose because according to you those games mean nothing.
A win is a win, end of story. We wont beat the Top teams in the league if we cant even beat the lower ranked teams.
I find it funny how theres a few "fans" of this team, who only ever post around here when the team is facing adversity, or struggling. And all that's ever posted is negative comments about how the sky is falling, we suck, fire Roy, fire Sakic, fire Bernie the mascot, etc.
Fact of the matter is this team has now won 4 of its last 5 and could have easily been 5/5 if it weren't for a superstar play from a superstar player. All of this while allowing limited shots on goal( 141 over 5 games, average of 28 Shots per game), and outplaying the opposition in each game.
The Avs last year struggled to do that even against the lower end teams. Were playing a better posession game and overall game then we did last year right now, and the results are slowly starting to show. Now by no means is it time to start penciling in the cup celebrations to our schedules, but things certainly look like they're improving.
Especially once Varly comes back, and we have reliable goaltending as well.