Yes, the three game West Coast road trip did not go well. No sugar coating that. But does that make Jared Bednar shuffle the lines up a bit to try and get some players going? Or do we just chalk the bad trip up to just that? A bad three games we can all move on from and have confidence in our guys to bounce back for this home stretch?

We also discuss why Bowen Byram seems to be the new whipping boy from the section of Avalanche fans who are just looking for someone to blame everything on since Samuel Girard isn't around. Why do fans do this? Do fans live entirely too much in the present instead of letting things play out?

And The Athletic released their favorites for the top of the NHL Awards with Cale Makar at the top of the Norris AND the Hart. Will he win them both?

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