"As we approach the one-year anniversary since the Erik Johnson/Chris Stewart/Kevin Shattenkirk trade, do you think if given a mulligan, the Avs would still do it? I sure wouldn't.

---Jeff Gallo, Lafayette

Great question. I asked that very question myself a couple a couple weeks ago. We'll never know what the Avs would really do. But it's a fascinating question.

I think this: some days the Avs would definitely take a mulligan, and others they would not. The great unknown still in this whole thing is: what kind of player can Duncan Siemens be? The first-round pick the Avs got in that trade? If he turns out to be a very good D-man with the Avs, then the trade will look a whole lot better. We won't know that for at least a couple years, minimum."