Divergent personalities for Avalanche's core four

The Denver Post profiles the different personalities of Gabriel Landeskog, Ryan O'Reilly, Matt Duchene and Nathan MacKinnon - the central foursome to the present and future of the Avalanche franchise.

Landeskog, the captain of the team, said of MacKinnon, the rookie, "He loves to talk, he loves to be in every conversation and it's not a lot of times where he's wrong about something. He's a great guy. Among us, he feels like he's been here a while and he knows everything, so he tries to teach us things, but we take it with a grain of salt."

The article also alludes to Ryan O'Reilly's not-so-long-ago offer sheet mess, but all seems healed on that front.

"I'm real happy here and just am glad we're having some real good success," O'Reilly said. "The last few years, there were some tough times for us as a team, but we've overcome it and it's great to be a part of it."

Source: Adrian Dater, Denver Post