This Is The Make-Or-Break Road Trip Of The Season

Hyperbole? Not in my opinion

It’s nice to be back among the living. The last four days seemed like six months for me. Not much happened in those four days, except for a wild trip into my subconscious courtesy of four days of 102-103-degree fever dreams brought about by an infection inside the body that the miracle of antibiotics have finally cast out.

I won’t even begin to describe the dreams, because I can’t. All I can say is: the subconscious is one strange place. One really, really strange place.

Now that reality is here again, I can think clearly on our beloved Colorado Avalanche once again, and my thought on this Third of December in the Year Of Our Lord 2024: As Kenny Loggins once sang, This Is It.

I think the five-game road trip that starts tonight in Buffalo is the make-or-break trip of the season for the Avs. Am I being overly dramatic? Perhaps.

But Elliotte Friedman’s theory that “if you’re not a playoff team around the time of American Thanksgiving, you’re in trouble” has historical heft. If you’re a playoff team at Thanksgiving, history shows you make the playoffs about 80% of the time. If you’re not a playoff team, you’ve got about a 20% chance of making the playoffs.