from Terry Frei of the Denver Post,

Two seasons ago, the Avalanche's Patrick Roy won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year. In Roy's first year, Colorado jumped from second-worst record the previous season to third-best in the NHL, and was considered to have overachieved with an amazingly consistent 112-point season.

Then Colorado regressed last season, finished last in the Central Division and missed the playoffs. Plus, the Avalanche is off to another bad start in 2015-16. The Avs will take a 3-7-1 record into their Tuesday home game against the Calgary Flames.

Speaking of the Flames...

Last season, Calgary's Bob Hartley won the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's coach of the year. Even more so than Roy the season before, Hartley was regarded as getting the most out of his roster in a 45-30-7 and 97-point season.

But the Flames are off to a rough start in 2015-16, and they'll take a 3-8-1 record into the road game in Denver.

So is there a Jack Adams jinx at work here?

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