Before the season started, I interviewed Colorado Avalanche star Paul Stastny for this very same column. Coming off an injury-riddled 2008-09, which not coincidentally was also the worst campaign in Avs history, Stastny was nonetheless upbeat about his team’s chances this year.

“I think we have the potential to surprise teams,” Stastny told me back in mid-September. “We have a nothing-to-lose attitude.”

I’m not going to say I didn’t believe him, but I certainly didn’t share his optimism.

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