{"id":288140,"date":"2025-11-06T20:56:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/288140\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T20:56:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T20:56:11","slug":"avalanche-mailbag-1-0-fixing-the-avalanches-center-depth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/288140\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche Mailbag 1.0: Fixing The Avalanche&#8217;s Center Depth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday will be a month since the Avalanche opened the 2025-26 regular season in Los Angeles. Surprisingly, they\u2019ll reach that month mark with just one regulation loss, as their next game isn\u2019t until Saturday in Edmonton. Colorado is 8-1-5 and leads the NHL both in points (21) and points percentage (.750).<\/p>\n<p>Already 14 games into the season, I figured this was a good time to run another CHN Mailbag. And you\u2019d be surprised to learn that people would like to hear my thoughts on the Avs\u2019 center depth.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a persistent issue this team has faced for years, although this time around it\u2019s uniquely different. I selected the two best questions of the bunch and answered them below in the first part of the Mailbag.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradohockeynow.com\/2025\/11\/06\/deens-daily-oh-captain-my-captain-team-canada-teaser-celebrini-keeps-climbing\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deen\u2019s Daily: Oh Captain My Captain; Team Canada Teaser; Celebrini Keeps Climbing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Question from Reece<\/p>\n<p>Question from Balon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/paypalme\/colhockeynow\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/CHNS-Tip-Jar.png\" alt=\"Contribute to CHN's travel and support local journalism!\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday will be a month since the Avalanche opened the 2025-26 regular season in Los Angeles. Surprisingly, they\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,1034,192,144,5277,58,5,515,517,2054,4,18398],"class_list":{"0":"post-288140","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-brock-nelson","10":"tag-colorado","11":"tag-colorado-avalanche","12":"tag-coloradoavalanche","13":"tag-featured","14":"tag-hockey","15":"tag-jack-drury","16":"tag-nathan-mackinnon","17":"tag-nazem-kadri","18":"tag-nhl","19":"tag-zakhar-bardakov"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115504754847551733","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}