No Offense, No Defense, No Chance. It’s the Story of the 2013 Colorado Avalanche.
Team Name: Colorado Avalanche
Record: 16-25-7, Fifth in Northwest, No Playoffs
Player of the Season: PA Parenteau put up 18 goals and 25 assists with 13 power-play points (6G,7A) and yet had a -11 rating last season.
Breakout of the Season: John Mitchell The fifth-season forward took a step forward and recaptured a little of the luster he had in his first season in the league (12-17–29 with Toronto in 08-09). This was the first season since then when he posted double-digit goals and assists (10-10–20) and was a +5 on a team where the negatives were heavy.
Disappointment of the Season: Goaltending. Seymon Varlamov was blah between the pipes to say the least. His 11-21-3 mark didn’t get the job done and it led to a 3.02 goals against average and a save percentage of only 90.3 percent. There were three shutouts but it doesn’t offset the fact that an average night was three or four goals against.
Add to that Jean-Sebastien Giguere was just mediocre (5-4-4 2.84 GAA, .908 svpct) and Colorado had problems in goal that derailed them all season.
Team Analysis: The Avalanche was the team that ended Chicago’s season-opening, 24-game undefeated streak but then took a nine-game slide that ended any hope of a postseason berth. The team was in the bottom third of the league in goals for (26th), goals against (27th), power-play conversion (24th) and penalty kill (20th). They’re a team with talent but they can’t put it all together and make a solid product on both ends of the ice.
2013-2014 Story Lines: How will the team respond to the new coach? What will they do with the #1 overall pick? How will Varlamov respond to having Roy as his coach? It has to be daunting to have one of the game’s all-time great goaltenders as your coach. It also means Roy might put his goaltenders on a short leash.
2013-2014 Fantasy Guys to Have: PA Parenteau, Matt Duchene, Gabriel Landeskog, Paul Stasny
On the Fringe: Greg Zanon (only if your league highly rewards blocked shots), Varlamov, Ryan O’Reilly
| PLAYER | GP | G | A | PTS | +/- | PIM | ATOI | PPG | PPA | SHG | SHA | SOG | SPCT |
| P.A. Parenteau, RW | 48 | 18 | 25 | 43 | -11 | 38 | 19:09 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 17.1 |
| Matt Duchene, C | 47 | 17 | 26 | 43 | -12 | 12 | 20:55 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 132 | 12.9 |
| Paul Stastny, C | 40 | 9 | 15 | 24 | -7 | 14 | 19:21 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 10.3 |
| Jamie McGinn, LW | 47 | 11 | 11 | 22 | -13 | 26 | 17:17 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 128 | 8.6 |
| John Mitchell, C | 47 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 5 | 18 | 16:45 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 13.9 |
| Ryan O’Reilly, C | 29 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -3 | 4 | 18:30 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 9.1 |
| Gabriel Landeskog, LW | 36 | 9 | 8 | 17 | -4 | 22 | 19:20 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 109 | 8.3 |
| Tyson Barrie, D | 32 | 2 | 11 | 13 | -11 | 10 | 21:35 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 3.4 |
| Cody McLeod, LW | 48 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 4 | 83 | 13:05 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 10.1 |
| Milan Hejduk, RW | 29 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -7 | 0 | 13:09 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 9.8 |
| Jan Hejda, D | 46 | 1 | 9 | 10 | -3 | 28 | 19:42 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 2.0 |
| Aaron Palushaj, RW | 25 | 2 | 7 | 9 | -2 | 8 | 11:19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 29 | 6.9 |
| Chuck Kobasew, RW | 37 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 6 | 21 | 11:16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 11.6 |
| David Jones, RW | 33 | 3 | 6 | 9 | -11 | 6 | 16:49 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 4.8 |
| Matt Hunwick, D | 43 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 16 | 21:31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 0.0 |
| Greg Zanon, D | 44 | 0 | 6 | 6 | -16 | 28 | 19:20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 40 | 0.0 |
| Mark Olver, C | 32 | 4 | 2 | 6 | -5 | 6 | 9:03 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 12.1 |
| Patrick Bordeleau, LW | 46 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -7 | 70 | 6:13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 8.3 |
| Stefan Elliott, D | 18 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -3 | 2 | 17:30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 2.9 |
| Erik Johnson, D | 31 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -3 | 18 | 20:45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 0.0 |
| Shane O’Brien, D | 28 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 60 | 15:30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 0.0 |
| Ryan O’Byrne, D † | 34 | 1 | 3 | 4 | -8 | 54 | 18:51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 4.8 |
| Ryan Wilson, D | 12 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 18:30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0.0 |
| Brad Malone, C | 13 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -7 | 16 | 8:47 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10.0 |
| David Van der Gulik, RW | 9 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9:26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0.0 |
| Steve Downie, RW | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8:54 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.0 |
| Tomas Vincour, C † | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | -1 | 2 | 9:04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 |
| Michael Sgarbossa, C | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -3 | 4 | 10:22 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0.0 |
| PLAYER | GP | W | L | OTL | GAA | TOI | SV | SV% | SHO | TGA | TSA | PIM |
| Sami Aittokallio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.43 | 49:20 | 23 | .920 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 0 |
| Jean-Sebastien Giguere | 18 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2.84 | 907:50 | 426 | .908 | 0 | 43 | 469 | 4 |
| Semyon Varlamov | 35 | 11 | 21 | 3 | 3.02 | 1949:39 | 909 | .903 | 3 | 98 | 1007 | 0 |
