Hockey World Reels As Avalanche Eye Next Steps

Colorado’s daily notebook is doing what good hockey columns do, which is juggling grief, timing and the next hockey decision all at once. The Avalanche still have an end-of-season presser hanging out there, and that kind of delay always makes people wonder what is being sorted behind closed doors. Carolina being on the verge of advancing adds more pressure to a postseason that keeps tightening around everybody still left in it.