Kiszla Calls Avalanche Run A Payback Tour For The Hockey Gods

The Avalanche are back in familiar territory, and the storyline has the kind of swagger that only a playoff run can produce. Mark Kiszla frames it as revenge against the hockey gods, which is another way of saying Colorado believes it has paid enough dues and still has unfinished business. That kind of narrative usually grows legs when a team starts stacking wins and leaning into its own mythology.