Keeler: Avalanche captain Gabe Landeskog is Colorado royalty. But Avs can't afford to wait on him anymore.

Hope is no longer a strategy, O Captain, my Captain. Without Gabe Landeskog, the Avs are stuck spinning their wheels in neutral, pining for the hockey gods to give them a push. “I'd like to be able for him to come back and be able to play,” Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said late Friday after his team's playoff dreams ended with a gut punch of a loss at home, this time to Dallas, for a second straight spring. If you're not rooting like heck for Landy to be back out on that ice, raising the bar and setting the tone, you don't have a soul.