The Avalanche Twitter account is getting embarrassingly sad
The Colorado Avalanche's season was pathetic enough, but their social media staff is only making it worse.
Losing 60 games, finishing dead last with 48 points in the standings, and posting the worst record of the salary-cap era aren't exactly accomplishments worth bragging about, so the team's Twitter account has instead been touting other "achievements."
Rather than focusing on how disappointing Matt Duchene's season was (he posted his worst goal and point totals in a non-lockout campaign since 2011-12) the Avalanche went with something a little more positive.
Matt Duchene led the NHL in faceoff percentage with 62.57% this season. pic.twitter.com/iLDbJDgQx2
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 21, 2017
While the intentions of this exercise were clearly good, some of the tweets unintentionally highlighted how bad the club truly was.
Barbs tallied nine points with us, including two goals.
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 22, 2017
His 13 points overall this season are a career-high. pic.twitter.com/RS8KnfD54F
Despite the injury, Johnson ranked third among our defensemen in scoring with 17 points. pic.twitter.com/Jetevt4Ltf
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 23, 2017
Not all of the facts were based on numbers.
Zadorov is only our second player with a last name that starts with the letter "Z." pic.twitter.com/pNxWjeAYpT
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 24, 2017
There were even more statistics that probably didn't need to be shared.
Cody Goloubef dressed in 32 games for us this season. pic.twitter.com/lFX0QgFASt
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 25, 2017
Mitchell won 55.4% of his faceoffs this season. pic.twitter.com/63Z82Y6UOu
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 27, 2017
Carl Soderberg played in 80 games this season, tallying 14 points. pic.twitter.com/ahS1GHDIro
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) April 26, 2017
Predictably, the replies roasted the team for trying to make the best of a forgettable season.
The responses to the Soderberg tweet summed up the reaction perfectly.
@Avalanche pic.twitter.com/DnN3ya4w6X
— ʝb. (@jaybrnz) April 26, 2017
@Avalanche stop bragging
— Satchel Price (@SatchelPrice) April 26, 2017
@Avalanche The Avalanche played 82 games this season, tallying 48 points.
— Nik Aitken (@NikAitken) April 26, 2017
@Avalanche If the Avalanche season was compressed into a single tweet, it would be this
— Jack Lyons (@sluhockeyblog) April 26, 2017
@Avalanche bawh gawd somebody stop the dang account
— AOL KEYWORD: Mike (@mikeFAIL) April 26, 2017
@Avalanche You paid him $340k for each of those points
— ben (@ToewsIsAFraud) April 26, 2017
Well, at least it can't get any worse for the Avalanche next season.
Or can it?