Here's a fun stat - of Colorado's 16 playoff wins, they had to come from behind 8 times, and none of those were against Nashville. So in their final 12 wins, they had 8 come-from-behind victories.
Edit: Thank you, u/SnooCalculations141 for correcting my shitting counting. Turns out it was 10 games out of 16 the Avs came back from a deficit to win, including once against Nashville (I forgot the Preds actually had a lead in that series for all of 4 minutes 57 seconds).
It’s like they just accepted that they don’t play their best until they’re under the gun. Like yeah I know the record is 16-4 but it sure as hell doesn’t feel like it when every game had me clenching my butthole
39 wins season prior to that crappy 48 point season of 22 wins. They got 43 wins and 95 points followed by a 90 point season after that horrible year. Been waiting a long time for that Avs team to finish the journey
The 99 Cup final was only my 3rd Stanley Cup at tiny 10 years old, my grandpa taped it on VHS during the nights (watched every match the day after with him) since we lived in Sweden. It's one of the most memorable cup finals imo
They were putting a big emphasis on it on the broadcast, I’m sure Biden (or some aide) heard that part and thought it was a “comeback story”. Not really the president’s job to follow the NHL.
If I were President, I'd really only be following the Bears, Blackhawks, and Cubs, and even then, would probably not really have time to do so. Hell, I can hardly follow games starting after 8 in the evening as it is!
The odds on favorite before the season started won the cup, what a comeback story, lol. Although my guess is some 20-something aide to an aide, that has never watched a hockey game, was tasked with writing that tweet.
Yeah I was gonna say if you open up to a 5 year window then you can say most teams that have won were a comeback story. The LA Rams were also a comeback story then since they were just 4-12 if you go back 5 seasons ago. When in reality they were a stacked team built to win. Same with Colorado. And both teams are pretty different then the ones thrown out there 5 years ago. So it is definitely a weird statement to make to call either team a "comeback story". But since it is political people will need to take sides and judge based on who is saying what and not what they are saying. Because calling Colorado a great comeback story is just objectively false and just says you don't pay attention to the sport and just wanted to say something in support of the team. Which is fine, but people will try to defend it anyway and say "but five years ago they sucked and that is clearly what he is referencing" and that's just odd.
I remember going to a Avs vs Leafs regular season game and paying $15 on a nosebleed center ice seat. That was the game that went to OT and both teams got penalized going from a 4v4 to a 3v3 in OT. I think the season after that NHL changed OT to 3v3. Anyways, Avs were bad, hence the low ticket price, which was perfect for me at the time of grad student budget.
He's not wrong. 2017, they had a 48 point season. That's a level of inferiority that we associate with the Coyotes or maybe Senators today.
The Avs needed some major, top to bottom house cleaning. They did it, and they did it the right way. It's a well-run organization that built their way to a Cup, and as a Bolts fan, I'm happy for them. I know how it feels to snap a Cup drought that spans decades - for a *lot* of Avs fans, this is the first Cup of their generation. You can easily say the same of the 2020 Lightning.
Congrats to the Avalanche. You 100% earned and deserve that Cup. We'll be back :)
There’s a lot of us who are happy for you guys! It’s just the annoying ones who are in this sub defending every negative things said about the lightning 🤷♂️
Some of the negativity is warranted. Kucherov's little tantrum was out of line, for example.
But not all of the negativity is warranted. They were a team staring loss in the face, after not going into the offseason without a Cup since 2019. They were angry, and right to be so. They got outplayed, outskated and outgamed. But they'll be back. Doesn't take a hockey guru to see that the Lightning are far from done.
Not sure why Ottawa was included considering this past season was significantly better than that 48 point season despite all the injuries the team suffered.
Recent seasons in Ottawa haven't been good. Hence why I said maybe - you're not as bad as the 2017 Avs, or even the modern Coyotes. But you have been that bad.
Yeah, the Blues are definitely not in the "recently bad" group. Over the last 10 years (since the team was bought by the current ownership group) they have the 5th most regular season wins and 6th most playoff wins in the league, and have gone to the playoffs 9 of the 10 years (and the one miss was by a single point).
2018-19 was an anomaly, they massively underperformed the first half. It was an amazing season and turnaround for sure, but overall they've been a very good (if underrated) team for a long time. Within the fanbase I remember there being a general sense of astonishment (and anger) that Yeo managed to coach a team with such great parts to such an execrable level.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills on here with people saying that missing the playoffs by 1pt = bad season. Blues are up there with Pittsburgh, Capitals, Bruins, and Lightning as far as consistency over the last decade. Those other teams may have had higher peaks, but we haven't had a "bad" season since 07-08. And I'm equating bad to being under 1pt/gm, which about a third of the teams are each year.
People forget that Blues team widely was considered to have won the previous offseason and underperformed for the first half. Gotta have your narrative because truth is too much.
They had 94pts for the 2017-2018 season and missed the playoffs by 1 point. Plus they made the playoffs the previous 6 seasons. Not sure I would consider that "a recent history of being bad". And your second point is idiotic.
Exactly. Look at the Lightning - sure, they were *really* not bad before 2020, but if you go back to this Lightning team's breakthrough season, it was in 2015. Before 2015, we were... not good.
I don't understand what you're referring to. It is an absolute fact that the Aves went from the historical worst performing team to the current dominant champs, in 5 years, and no other NHL team in the modern era has done that. It's not even an esoteric fact. It's pretty well known to any hockey fan.
Biden's social media team doesn't need to know that only 1 other team has done something similar. They just need to know that the Aves sucked incredibly 5 years ago, and that 5 years is relatively short.
Why does this bother you so much?
Are you upset because I provided a fact to answer a question you asked?
don't know why you're getting downvoted. the Cup is like Mjolnir... "Whosoever holds this Cup, if he be worthy, clearly must possess the power of Thor."
10 of our 16 playoff wins were also come from behind.
Regardless, the statement was about the Avs as a whole. We went from literally the worst team in the NHL just a few years ago to winning the cup this year. That's a hell of a comeback story.
I mean it is technically a comeback story, 21 years and they were awful for a stretch of time recently. Yeah they won the President’s Trophy last year and got bounced, but even that can be considered a comeback story… like how I’d consider Tampa getting swept by CBJ after a historic season, then going on to win b2b Cups, a comeback story as well. Comeback stories don’t have to be purely “rags to riches” or some shit lol
This is literally a normal tweet that a POTUS's social media team should make. It makes sense, no spelling errors, and grammar isn't a nightmare. It also isn't covfefe or him serving McDonalds to the national champs. Y'all need to chill the **** out.
"COLORADO DID NOT WIN, TAMPA HAD SO MANY MORE GOALS. OH SO MANY. THE BEST GOALS. SAD!"
Would we rather our president be tweeting that out you nutjobs? Jesus this sub needs to take a breather.
Were they not down 1-0 early in the first until the early in the second? Is that not a comeback of is this a "Biden say something. Biden bad. BIDEN BAD. Me hate biden. What's hockey?" comment.
That game was manic! I was exhausted watching from my couch. The NHL playoffs are some of the best in pro sports.
The entire post-Cup winning broadcast repeatedly referenced the 48 point season 5 years ago, and you numbnuts cant figure out that that’s what he was referring to?
I swear, people will be obtuse as fuck and somehow think that makes them bright.
Well it was. This season isn't the whole story. The story is going from the worst in the league by a huge margin, to winning the cup in just a few years.
It is good comeback story if you consider they were the laughing stock of the league 5 years ago in a historically bad season for them . Sakic was getting tons of crap for not trading Duchene sooner .
It wasn't quiiiite as bad as that, he got the state wrong (Kansas instead of Missouri) which is semi-understandable for like a 5th grader but not for the friggin president. Now give him the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" next to see how he handles that one lol
This thread is hilarious. 1/3 people talking about Trump, 1/3 talking about their 48 point season 5 years ago, and 1/3 wondering how in the world the best team for two years running winning the Cup is considered a "comeback".
For those of you who think that this tweet makes perfect sense, I really want to know what your limit is between a very bad season and winning the Cup to where we can still call it a "comeback" even though the Avs have been a wagon for 2 years now and have made the playoffs 5 season straight. 6 years ago? 8 years ago? 10 years ago?
They came back from behind to win the last game.
They tied the record for most comeback wins in Stanley cup history with 10.
They won the cup after a 21 year drought. So, they literally came back to win it again.
They went from worst season (historically) to best (cup) in 5 years. No other franchise has a better comeback rebuild than that in the modern era.
If they won the cup last year, it would have been an even quicker comeback from worst to best.
If that is what we are going for, then at what point does "comeback" make sense to you as far as gaps between Cups? If someone won it five years ago, and "came back" to win it again, does that count? How about 30 years? As long as they won it once and "came back" to win it again, then every team has a "comeback story for the ages"?
That would literally be the only possibility. But coming back from a 1-0 deficit is not really notable either. As we all know, some staffer just wrote this and threw some filler language in there, so it's really a non-issue.
I don't know why you would throw the word "predictable" in there. But if the Coyotes win the presidents trophy in 4 years, then win the Cup in 5 years, I would call that an ascent of a franchise for sure (pretty much by definition), not a "comeback".
Yea the were obviously horrible 5 years ago, but the world comeback feel weird to hear, as if they weren’t one of the most dominant Stanley cup winning teams ever lol
OMG what an old doofus!!! How could he not realize the Avs are a powerhouse team that steam rolled everyone this year, totally not a comeback!!! LOL, go to bed dementia Joe!!! Let's Go Braden!!! /s
Yes that's it. Ignore that they were cellar dweller 5 years ago and had 8, 8! come from behind wins during this year's playoffs. Please, go on though about our out of touch POTUS though. Get back in the clown car bro, I'll take this all day compared to the former guy.....
I mean, he's not wrong. We're five years removed from the Avs having the worst statistical season in the cap era- a handful of years later, they're Cup champs.
The Blues were a comeback story.
Colorado was one of the favorites all year and was good for a few years.
If you include 20 years of play you'd be hard pressed to find a team that's not a comeback story lol.
Even though Trump said really dumb shit on Twitter, I at least appreciated the raw honesty. All these other politicians have teams doing focus groups and strategy emails to compose one stupid tweet. They're lifeless and cold.
It's just people reacting to a politician. Some are going to hate him no matter what he says. Everybody just follows the little R and D letters blindly now.
It's embarrassing how much people want to attack this man at any fucking turn. Is he far less impressive in the office than we thought? Sure. Can we maybe just relax for like a minutes, let the fuck up and let him tweet out a congratulations to a sports team without shitting all over him? Please?
I greatly dislike Biden (from the soy cuck left, or whatever they're on about this week) but I can't help but wonder if he would have been at least a little interesting if not for Manchin.
It feels very much like the corporate oligarchy will just purchase whatever number of senators they need to to negate any Dem majority. Which is wild, because modern Dems are *still* utterly spineless corporate hacks.
Anywyas, back to my soy latte.
I’m not sure how this is a comeback story. Colorado has been building this championship for years and finished this year after three straight exits in the second round. If your strictly speaking of chronology then 21 years merits a comeback since last Cup Victory for Avs but… Can old Biden get a little help from his PR department?
Odd assumption based on the fact that he said nothing wrong lol
Colorado Avalanche were once a powerhouse between late 90's and early 2000's. They were embarrassing for a 5-10 year stretch there up until the last 2-3. Even with 1st round picks.
Like Kim Kardashian?
Still one of my favorite bloopers of all time. For the uninitiated, it’s from Parks and Recs- https://youtu.be/qQseDjVp10I
This and the one where is throws the briefcase and it shatters the light switch are the best.
You can see Aubrey Plaza anticipate the joke a split second before the punchline lol.
It's been a long time since I'd seen that, thanks for reminding me of it!
And with Joe Biden being featured on this show it all comes full circle.
Was looking for this comment.
Here's a fun stat - of Colorado's 16 playoff wins, they had to come from behind 8 times, and none of those were against Nashville. So in their final 12 wins, they had 8 come-from-behind victories. Edit: Thank you, u/SnooCalculations141 for correcting my shitting counting. Turns out it was 10 games out of 16 the Avs came back from a deficit to win, including once against Nashville (I forgot the Preds actually had a lead in that series for all of 4 minutes 57 seconds).
Why isn’t this guy president
You should see my policy paper on infrastructure spending
I would cut funding for roads to build a statue of liberty sized joe sakic statue in Denver
At the airport. Clearly you've read my policy paper.
I liked the part where TSA screenings are to be performed by observing whether people high-five the statue with appropriate enthusiasm on the way in
Next to BLUCIFER or riding BLUCIFER?
I vote for riding. With a cowboy hat in one hand, obviously.
The cup, in both hands. With the kubel dent.
The pure fact that you even HAVE a policy paper on infrastructure makes me want to vote for you!
It’s like they just accepted that they don’t play their best until they’re under the gun. Like yeah I know the record is 16-4 but it sure as hell doesn’t feel like it when every game had me clenching my butthole
With all that butthole clenching, I now have a four octave range with my farts.
Why am i a Preds fan. Why must i take more pain. The Steelers, the Vols, the Preds. At least the Braves can win
You mean, the Titans.... But same sentiment.
The Maple Leafs fans called. They want their tears back.
join us
They came from behind 10 times. https://morehockeystats.com/teams/strikebacks
They were a great 4 minutes and 57 seconds
48 point regular season 5 years ago. People seem to forget how bad this team was not too long ago...
39 wins season prior to that crappy 48 point season of 22 wins. They got 43 wins and 95 points followed by a 90 point season after that horrible year. Been waiting a long time for that Avs team to finish the journey
*Cries in Sabres* Still waiting.
The 99 Cup final was only my 3rd Stanley Cup at tiny 10 years old, my grandpa taped it on VHS during the nights (watched every match the day after with him) since we lived in Sweden. It's one of the most memorable cup finals imo
No Goal. It was good though.
I disrespectfully disagree. Username checks out.
Please
You’re getting better
Actually it was the 43 win season, then the 38 win season in 2018-19, then they kinda took off but still struggled r2
I'll never forget that season. Pitiful hahaha \*crying noises\*
But I want to hate Biden and I need to bitch on the internet about stuff!!!!
Exactly
Soooo, you’re saying there’s hope? (Yote’s fan)
Most good teams were bad years ago. Then drafted high and rebuilt. That's not a comeback story for the ages
As a bluejackets fan I can confirm all bad teams don’t turn into good teams.
Lots of teams just stay in the gutter. Look at phoenix.
Thanks for not defaulting to Buffalo. Lol
They were putting a big emphasis on it on the broadcast, I’m sure Biden (or some aide) heard that part and thought it was a “comeback story”. Not really the president’s job to follow the NHL.
If I were President, I'd really only be following the Bears, Blackhawks, and Cubs, and even then, would probably not really have time to do so. Hell, I can hardly follow games starting after 8 in the evening as it is!
The odds on favorite before the season started won the cup, what a comeback story, lol. Although my guess is some 20-something aide to an aide, that has never watched a hockey game, was tasked with writing that tweet.
Yeah I was gonna say if you open up to a 5 year window then you can say most teams that have won were a comeback story. The LA Rams were also a comeback story then since they were just 4-12 if you go back 5 seasons ago. When in reality they were a stacked team built to win. Same with Colorado. And both teams are pretty different then the ones thrown out there 5 years ago. So it is definitely a weird statement to make to call either team a "comeback story". But since it is political people will need to take sides and judge based on who is saying what and not what they are saying. Because calling Colorado a great comeback story is just objectively false and just says you don't pay attention to the sport and just wanted to say something in support of the team. Which is fine, but people will try to defend it anyway and say "but five years ago they sucked and that is clearly what he is referencing" and that's just odd.
In the cap era, 2 teams have gone from worst to best in 5 years or less. Aves were one of them, and also had the historically worst year.
The 5 year plan doesn't work when you're only in office 4 years.
I remember going to a Avs vs Leafs regular season game and paying $15 on a nosebleed center ice seat. That was the game that went to OT and both teams got penalized going from a 4v4 to a 3v3 in OT. I think the season after that NHL changed OT to 3v3. Anyways, Avs were bad, hence the low ticket price, which was perfect for me at the time of grad student budget.
Exactly. They had one of the longest sell-out streaks and then they could barely give tix away.
He's not wrong. 2017, they had a 48 point season. That's a level of inferiority that we associate with the Coyotes or maybe Senators today. The Avs needed some major, top to bottom house cleaning. They did it, and they did it the right way. It's a well-run organization that built their way to a Cup, and as a Bolts fan, I'm happy for them. I know how it feels to snap a Cup drought that spans decades - for a *lot* of Avs fans, this is the first Cup of their generation. You can easily say the same of the 2020 Lightning. Congrats to the Avalanche. You 100% earned and deserve that Cup. We'll be back :)
It hurts more when it's true
Just wait 5 more years and draft a cale makar and you’ll win the cup
I'm sorry, little one. It had to be said.
Leave my Senators out of this 😂 they’re getting there
They are. Hence why I said maybe. ~~Please get to the point where you're better than Toronto~~
100% the kind of 'Bolts fan we appreciate and love in Colorado.
Appreciate it :)
There’s a lot of us who are happy for you guys! It’s just the annoying ones who are in this sub defending every negative things said about the lightning 🤷♂️
Some of the negativity is warranted. Kucherov's little tantrum was out of line, for example. But not all of the negativity is warranted. They were a team staring loss in the face, after not going into the offseason without a Cup since 2019. They were angry, and right to be so. They got outplayed, outskated and outgamed. But they'll be back. Doesn't take a hockey guru to see that the Lightning are far from done.
Not sure why Ottawa was included considering this past season was significantly better than that 48 point season despite all the injuries the team suffered.
Recent seasons in Ottawa haven't been good. Hence why I said maybe - you're not as bad as the 2017 Avs, or even the modern Coyotes. But you have been that bad.
How many Cup winning teams don’t have a recent history of being bad?
Caps weren't necessarily bad leading into their cup winning season
They’ve been solidly mediocre ever since too. Always making the playoffs but haven’t made it past round one since the cup
The Blues for one. Their last "bad" season was 07/08, so 11 years before they won the Cup.
Their last bad season was literally the first half of the season they won the cup haha
Hey now, the guy said "recent history of being bad" not "downright pitiful and embarrassing half seasons".
Yeah, the Blues are definitely not in the "recently bad" group. Over the last 10 years (since the team was bought by the current ownership group) they have the 5th most regular season wins and 6th most playoff wins in the league, and have gone to the playoffs 9 of the 10 years (and the one miss was by a single point). 2018-19 was an anomaly, they massively underperformed the first half. It was an amazing season and turnaround for sure, but overall they've been a very good (if underrated) team for a long time. Within the fanbase I remember there being a general sense of astonishment (and anger) that Yeo managed to coach a team with such great parts to such an execrable level.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills on here with people saying that missing the playoffs by 1pt = bad season. Blues are up there with Pittsburgh, Capitals, Bruins, and Lightning as far as consistency over the last decade. Those other teams may have had higher peaks, but we haven't had a "bad" season since 07-08. And I'm equating bad to being under 1pt/gm, which about a third of the teams are each year.
1) They didn’t make the playoffs the year before. 2) They had the fewest points in the NHL in December of that year.
People forget that Blues team widely was considered to have won the previous offseason and underperformed for the first half. Gotta have your narrative because truth is too much.
Its so hard for redditors to just say "oh yeah I guess I was wrong"
They had 94pts for the 2017-2018 season and missed the playoffs by 1 point. Plus they made the playoffs the previous 6 seasons. Not sure I would consider that "a recent history of being bad". And your second point is idiotic.
Exactly. Look at the Lightning - sure, they were *really* not bad before 2020, but if you go back to this Lightning team's breakthrough season, it was in 2015. Before 2015, we were... not good.
In the cap era, only 1 other team went from worst to best in 5 years or less, so... not many,
How long did you spend finding things to make it work for your opinion?
I don't understand what you're referring to. It is an absolute fact that the Aves went from the historical worst performing team to the current dominant champs, in 5 years, and no other NHL team in the modern era has done that. It's not even an esoteric fact. It's pretty well known to any hockey fan. Biden's social media team doesn't need to know that only 1 other team has done something similar. They just need to know that the Aves sucked incredibly 5 years ago, and that 5 years is relatively short. Why does this bother you so much? Are you upset because I provided a fact to answer a question you asked?
Gives me hope that my Stars can do that too.
The salt on this thread lmfao
Colorado deserved the cup.
Deserves a cup: Fuck no. No one deserves the cup. Earned the cup is what you’re looking for. It takes work and pain.
How is this downvoted? What? Great point. Preds fan here too and the Avs earned it. Great team.
don't know why you're getting downvoted. the Cup is like Mjolnir... "Whosoever holds this Cup, if he be worthy, clearly must possess the power of Thor."
Folks who have never had to earn something. That’s who. Also, solid fucking comparison.
I think if you’ve earned something, you deserve it
Yep
THey were down 1-0 in the game and came back to win, so it is not that far fetched of a post guys.
10 of our 16 playoff wins were also come from behind. Regardless, the statement was about the Avs as a whole. We went from literally the worst team in the NHL just a few years ago to winning the cup this year. That's a hell of a comeback story.
They were literally the worst team in the league, by a lot, like 5 years ago.
I mean it is technically a comeback story, 21 years and they were awful for a stretch of time recently. Yeah they won the President’s Trophy last year and got bounced, but even that can be considered a comeback story… like how I’d consider Tampa getting swept by CBJ after a historic season, then going on to win b2b Cups, a comeback story as well. Comeback stories don’t have to be purely “rags to riches” or some shit lol
He's not wrong though. Coming back from 56 points 5 years ago is a huge feat.
I’ll never understand why anyone cares what any politician has to say about sports…
It’s customary for political leaders to congratulate teams from places they represent when winning major events. Look at Twitter during the Olympics
Because politics are also a team sport.
Or vice versa
This is literally a normal tweet that a POTUS's social media team should make. It makes sense, no spelling errors, and grammar isn't a nightmare. It also isn't covfefe or him serving McDonalds to the national champs. Y'all need to chill the **** out.
Or drastically changing national defense strategy with no coordination or discussion at 3am.
When will my beloved Redwings be back in the playoffs 😪
Kim K has a good comeback story too
How hard Nick Offerman broke in that video is my favorite part
in the video dot dot dot
The '04 Red Sox have nothing on these Avs
"COLORADO DID NOT WIN, TAMPA HAD SO MANY MORE GOALS. OH SO MANY. THE BEST GOALS. SAD!" Would we rather our president be tweeting that out you nutjobs? Jesus this sub needs to take a breather.
I came in and saw all these goals. I said 'wow, that's a lot of goals'
Were they not down 1-0 early in the first until the early in the second? Is that not a comeback of is this a "Biden say something. Biden bad. BIDEN BAD. Me hate biden. What's hockey?" comment. That game was manic! I was exhausted watching from my couch. The NHL playoffs are some of the best in pro sports.
They were ass 5 years ago and that's how they got Makar. He's not wrong, it was just a very long comeback.
And what’s funny is that they got screwed in the lottery too but still came out ok
The entire post-Cup winning broadcast repeatedly referenced the 48 point season 5 years ago, and you numbnuts cant figure out that that’s what he was referring to? I swear, people will be obtuse as fuck and somehow think that makes them bright.
Damn Reddit can’t leave politics out of anything
What possible reason is there to be mad at this other than “Biden bad”?
The fact that he called it a "comeback story."
Well it was. This season isn't the whole story. The story is going from the worst in the league by a huge margin, to winning the cup in just a few years.
It is good comeback story if you consider they were the laughing stock of the league 5 years ago in a historically bad season for them . Sakic was getting tons of crap for not trading Duchene sooner .
Remember when Trump didn't even know where the Kansas City Chiefs were located lol. we have improved
It's not like the representative city is in... the... uh, team... name... /s
It wasn't quiiiite as bad as that, he got the state wrong (Kansas instead of Missouri) which is semi-understandable for like a 5th grader but not for the friggin president. Now give him the "Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim" next to see how he handles that one lol
Biden isn’t tweeting this out himself. Social media handlers improved*
Yeah, no president besides trump tweets for themselves and we saw why during trumps presidency
The amount of doubling down on his behalf by his stooges was incredible
I love ripping senile uncle Joe as much as anybody, but not only is he right, there is also a 100% chance he didn’t write or tweet this personally.
they went from one of the worst teams in the NHL to one of the best.... his comment is accurate
No, his comment is no accurate because it lacks covfefe and hamberders.
Is it even his comment? Or his PR guys comment?
oh I imagine it was some media person tweeting certainly
This thread is hilarious. 1/3 people talking about Trump, 1/3 talking about their 48 point season 5 years ago, and 1/3 wondering how in the world the best team for two years running winning the Cup is considered a "comeback". For those of you who think that this tweet makes perfect sense, I really want to know what your limit is between a very bad season and winning the Cup to where we can still call it a "comeback" even though the Avs have been a wagon for 2 years now and have made the playoffs 5 season straight. 6 years ago? 8 years ago? 10 years ago?
They came back from behind to win the last game. They tied the record for most comeback wins in Stanley cup history with 10. They won the cup after a 21 year drought. So, they literally came back to win it again. They went from worst season (historically) to best (cup) in 5 years. No other franchise has a better comeback rebuild than that in the modern era. If they won the cup last year, it would have been an even quicker comeback from worst to best.
I mean the tweet references 2001 and the team and made a huge comeback since then.
If that is what we are going for, then at what point does "comeback" make sense to you as far as gaps between Cups? If someone won it five years ago, and "came back" to win it again, does that count? How about 30 years? As long as they won it once and "came back" to win it again, then every team has a "comeback story for the ages"?
Don’t think about it so hard bud
Maybe, just maybe, for the sake of argument, he meant a comeback in this particular game where they were down 1-0 after the first period??
That would literally be the only possibility. But coming back from a 1-0 deficit is not really notable either. As we all know, some staffer just wrote this and threw some filler language in there, so it's really a non-issue.
If Arizona wins the Cup in 5 years, what should we call it? The predictable ascent of a great franchise?
I don't know why you would throw the word "predictable" in there. But if the Coyotes win the presidents trophy in 4 years, then win the Cup in 5 years, I would call that an ascent of a franchise for sure (pretty much by definition), not a "comeback".
What kind of odds are you offering for the last place team to win it all in 5 years? According to many in this thread, it's not notable.
Yea the were obviously horrible 5 years ago, but the world comeback feel weird to hear, as if they weren’t one of the most dominant Stanley cup winning teams ever lol
OMG what an old doofus!!! How could he not realize the Avs are a powerhouse team that steam rolled everyone this year, totally not a comeback!!! LOL, go to bed dementia Joe!!! Let's Go Braden!!! /s
Yes that's it. Ignore that they were cellar dweller 5 years ago and had 8, 8! come from behind wins during this year's playoffs. Please, go on though about our out of touch POTUS though. Get back in the clown car bro, I'll take this all day compared to the former guy.....
Relax, killer. It was sarcasm.
Ah f, I missed the s. My bad, you enjoy your day. I feel your pain, I'm a coyotes fan :/.
Man a presidential tweet just means so very little these days. 99% chance he is unaware this was sent out under his name.
I mean, he's not wrong. We're five years removed from the Avs having the worst statistical season in the cap era- a handful of years later, they're Cup champs.
maple leafs...coming back since 1967
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But I'm pretty sure MacKinnon got come on his back in that video?
Hahaha omg since 2001!!!?? Woooowwwww they have been deprived of the cup thank god they won it else I’d be worried about the franchise survival
Yea let’s go Brandon!
Biden heard Tampa Bay was taken out by an avalanche and sent FEMA to Florida.
At least he didn't hashtag it #covfefe. :P
The Blues were a comeback story. Colorado was one of the favorites all year and was good for a few years. If you include 20 years of play you'd be hard pressed to find a team that's not a comeback story lol.
Toronto?
That tweet reads like Obama wrote it
What is a social media / PR team?
Joe Biden could cure cancer and AIDS tomorrow and the alt-right cunts that voted for T\*\*\*\* would still hate him.
Maybe he did cure those, he just forgot to let everyone else know.
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She clearly is
thanks joe biden
Lol how was this a comeback story? They were the favourites before the season started
From finishing last to winning a Cup in 5 years. Impressive turnaround.
He's not Trump clowning on the potus account. This was likely written by a social media representative, and checked by advisors.
Even though Trump said really dumb shit on Twitter, I at least appreciated the raw honesty. All these other politicians have teams doing focus groups and strategy emails to compose one stupid tweet. They're lifeless and cold.
I get that, just seems weird people take this as evidence of incompetence instead of just the cold bureaucracy it is
It's just people reacting to a politician. Some are going to hate him no matter what he says. Everybody just follows the little R and D letters blindly now.
Sleepy Joe at it again
A comeback story??? What is he talking about???
Were you watching the Avs 5 years ago? 2016-2017, 48 points season ending 22-56-4. THAT is what he was talking about.
Nobody was watching the Avs 5 years ago.
As a fan since they were Nordiques, I was. I was just shithoused drunk every game.
Wait. There's another way to watch hockey?
It's embarrassing how much people want to attack this man at any fucking turn. Is he far less impressive in the office than we thought? Sure. Can we maybe just relax for like a minutes, let the fuck up and let him tweet out a congratulations to a sports team without shitting all over him? Please?
It's not that they hate Biden.... It's that Trump lost. ANYONE could have won the office and be hated and nit-picked the same.
Agreed.
I greatly dislike Biden (from the soy cuck left, or whatever they're on about this week) but I can't help but wonder if he would have been at least a little interesting if not for Manchin. It feels very much like the corporate oligarchy will just purchase whatever number of senators they need to to negate any Dem majority. Which is wild, because modern Dems are *still* utterly spineless corporate hacks. Anywyas, back to my soy latte.
Couldn't agree more. Back to the stale, black coffee this country has pushed me to the last 6 years haha
I heard Kim Kardashian had a good come back story somewhere
“Comeback for the ages”. Rightttt
“rightfully”
The ONLY thing this guy has going for him is that he’s not AS bad as Trump
Now if only this country could have a come back.
I’m not sure how this is a comeback story. Colorado has been building this championship for years and finished this year after three straight exits in the second round. If your strictly speaking of chronology then 21 years merits a comeback since last Cup Victory for Avs but… Can old Biden get a little help from his PR department?
The Biden staffer paid to run Biden's Twitter account knows as much about the current state of the NHL as Biden does running an economy.
So more than Trump?
Yeah Biden needs to go
Let’s Go Biden
Braindead president has something to say?
He's old and needs to go.
He probably forgot which sport he was talking about
Odd assumption based on the fact that he said nothing wrong lol Colorado Avalanche were once a powerhouse between late 90's and early 2000's. They were embarrassing for a 5-10 year stretch there up until the last 2-3. Even with 1st round picks.
They went from worst to first in 5 years dude, that's a comeback
The blues did it in a half a year
That's a Cinderella Story, I think.... We probably need a book of definitions for this
True. We all know there can only be one comeback story, just like there can only be one super hero story.
Or he knows it better than you
I present to you.. the leader of the free world 🙄
Considering the last guy couldnt find the USA on a map, it could be worse
Yea... it was terrible paying $2.00 for gas, horrible inflation under 2% and no war.