Columnist MarkKiszla holds these truths to be self-evident... No. 1: From St. Louis to Tampa, Nazem Kadri was the emotional heartbeat of the Avs’ Stanley Cup run. No. 2: The market has made it clear: The best year of Kadri's career was an outlier.
Your name on the Stanley Cup and $4.65 will get you a great big caramel macchiato at Starbucks. But Nazem Kadri can’t find a job, proving the NHL market for his services isn’t as over-caffeinated as the 32-year-old center had dreamed.
No. 2: Although Kadri maybe doesn’t want to hear it, the open market has made it clear: The best year of his career, when Kadri produced a robust 1.23 points per game during the regular season, was an outlier that served to inflate his self worth. President of hockey operations Joe Sakic did not earn his richly deserved status as the savviest roster architect in the league by overpaying for talent. It’s nothing personal, Naz. It’s the business end of the NHL’s flat salary cap puzzle.
Sakic learned from the late, great Pierre Lacroix that sentimentality can’t override a commitment to the team’s salary structure. Colorado doesn’t need Kadri to repeat as champion, but the Avs do need a viable No. 2 center to give themselves the best chance to hoist the Cup again in 2023.
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