TAMPA, Fla. — Before the Colorado Avalanche kissed Lord Stanley’s freshly dented mug, before the champagne soaked their shirts, there was a quiet elevator ride from the press box to ice level at Amalie Arena for the disparate management groups of these two titans after a heavyweight slugfest.
There was no hooting and hollering, no backslapping, no hugging for Avalanche GM Joe Sakic and his team — definitely not in front of the…