Preview: Introducing the 2009-10 Colorado Avalanche!

NHL season previews often sell you an impressive bill of goods before you realize, at the end of the season, you're holding an empty box. Which makes using advertisements and infomercials the appropriate template for Puck Daddy's 2009-10 NHL Season Previews, presented each day throughout September.Last Season's Ad Copy: Fifteenth in the Western Conference and fifth in the Northwest Division (32-45-5, 69 pts.). Good enough to get their name pulled for the third overall pick in the NHL Entry Draft. It was a disaster of a season that concluded with an off-season of much change that signaled a new beginning.An entire new regime is in the front office, led by Greg Sherman, an inexperienced general manager who hired inexperienced head coach Joe Sacco to run the show. Couple that with the retirement of the team's heart and soul, Joe Sakic(notes), after two decades with the franchise and the trade of co-leading scorer Ryan Smyth(notes) to the Los Angeles Kings, and you'v...