Once again, this year winning the NHL Presidents’ Trophy proved to be more of a curse than an honor for […] This article: NHL Presidents’ Trophy Claims Yet Another Victim in the Colorado Avalanche originally appeared on Florida Hockey Now.

Winning end-of-season awards is normally nice, but when it comes to the NHL, there’s one honor nobody wants to see: The Presidents’ Trophy. Awarded to the team with the best record in the regular season,

The Colorado Avalanche were eliminated from the Stanley Cup Playoffs with a 2-1 loss to the Vegas Golden Knights in Game 4 of the Western Conference Final at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on Tuesday. The Avalanche held leads in Game 2 and Game 3 but lost each. Before this series, they were 5-0 in the playoffs when scoring first.

Colorado Avalanche veteran Logan O'Connor said that the team's season was a "waste" after they were swept out of the NHL playoffs.

Assessing how a failure to adjust spelled the end for the Colorado Avalanche.

The Avalanche remain one-Cup wonders, a dominant regular-season team with precious little to show for it over the past four years.

“Disappointed. Humiliated,” Avs forward Logan O’Connor, as stand-up as they come, told reporters at T-Mobile Arena after his season ended in a 2-1 defeat. “I think, to a man, (we) just weren’t good enough. Not a single guy was the whole entire series.”