The Avalanche has fallen from grace since its magical regular-season run in 2013-14, the 112-point first year under the Joe Sakic/Patrick Roy regime. Draft mistakes, failed trades, over-valuing veterans, and poor free-agent signings have contributed. But make no mistake, the player-personnel errors began long before Sakic replaced Greg Sherman as general manager after the 2012-13 season. No choices from the 2008 and 2010 draft classes have played 100 NHL games, and Sakic wasn’t in charge when Colorado chose first-round busts Joey Hishon (2010) and Duncan Siemens (2011). Also, none of the Avs’ top three picks in 2012, when Sakic still was in his Hockey Hall of Fame retirement as a player, have played an NHL game.

After Sakic took over in 2013, part of his task was to deal with and try to overcome those horrific drafts, which left the roster and organization inadequately stocked with both difference-making or even depth-providing young talent. Despite the record and the lack of immediate payoff, the Avalanche has made progress on that front and Sakic, as the GM, deserves credit for that. The following examples, however, are moves that haven’t worked or are still in the verdict stage since Sakic took command, a month before he hired Roy as head coach and vice president. The Hall of Fame goaltender and former teammate of Sakic resigned in August, in part because he felt his influence in personnel decisions had waned, but there is no disputing he had considerable input in the early days of what then was a true Sakic-Roy partnership. Roy was especially frustrated by the lack of “homegrown” talent — especially in terms of numbers — available to him.

March 5, 2014

The Avalanche acquires goalie Reto Berra from Calgary for a 2014 second-round draft pick and extends Berra, a pending restricted free agent at the time of the trade, with a three-year, $4.35 million contract.

Ultimately: The up-and-down Berra had his moments and arguably was outplaying Semyon Varlamov early last season when he suffered an ankle injury in hallway soccer-kibitzing and left the Avs disillusioned with his lack of zeal in his recovery, adding to his reputation for unreliability. He spent the rest of the season in the minors. The Avs unloaded him to Florida last summer for minor-league forward Rocco Grimaldi, and Berra is back in the AHL.

Verdict: Colorado lost — not because of Berra’s failures as much as it underestimated the development of draft pick Calvin Pickard, who became Varlamov’s more capable and reliable backup.

June 30, 2014

The Avs send forward P.A. Parenteau and a 2015 fifth-round pick to Montreal for forward Daniel Briere, a former NHL star and one of the most-liked players in the game. Parenteau had gone from a top-line winger under coach Joe Sacco to a defensive liability under Roy.

Ultimately: The deal got Colorado out of the final year of Parenteau’s $4 million annual contract. But Briere, in what perhaps will go down as foreshadowing of other Avalanche problems with players in their twilight, floundered in his final NHL season. Parenteau has scored 32 goals for Toronto and New Jersey since Briere’s retirement.

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July 1, 2014

On the day free agency begins, Colorado sends a 2016 second-round pick and 2017 sixth-rounder to San Jose for 34-year-old defenseman Brad Stuart, who has one year remaining on a $3.6 million annual contract.

Ultimately: Colorado gave Stuart a two-year extension, at $3.6 annually, but the former Stanley Cup champion (at Detroit) didn’t play well when healthy and was limited to six games in 2015-16 because of a back injury. Because he is over 35, the Avs still are on the hook for Stuart’s entire $3.6 million this season — even after he was bought out and removed from the roster.

Verdict: Perhaps the biggest blunder in the Sakic/Roy era. They over-valued a defenseman they had played against.

July 1, 2014

Shortly after acquiring Stuart, Colorado signs veteran forward Jarome Iginla, a certain Hall of Famer, to a three-year, $16 million contract on his 37th birthday. Iginla — Sakic’s self-proclaimed “plan B” to losing Paul Stastny in free agency — was coming off a successful 30-goal season with the Bruins.

Ultimately: Iginla scored 29 goals in his first season with the Avs, who didn’t make the playoffs. Since then, his game has declined and now, in his third year with Colorado, he is having the worst year of his distinguished career.

Verdict: Outbidding others by being willing to offer a longer deal is perilous, and the Avs overvalued Iginla, who is taking up $5.3 million of cap room this season for a team scraping the ceiling.

March 2, 2015

The Avs acquire former Quebec Major Junior Hockey League star Jordan Caron, a 2009 first-round draft pick by Boston, and the Bruins’ 2016 sixth-round draft pick for forward prospect Paul Carey and veteran forward Max Talbot.

Ultimately: Caron was a bust for the Bruins and also for the Avs. He was pointless in 19 games for Colorado and wasn’t given a qualifying offer as a restricted free agent. Talbot is playing in Russia and Carey is in the Washington Capitals‘ system.

Verdict: This wasn’t all that damaging and Roy never billed it as more than an audition, but was an example of him overvaluing former junior players he coached or coached against in his eight seasons behind the Quebec Remparts’ bench. This was one of several kick-the-tires type acquisitions that didn’t work out.

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June 25, 2015

A day before the draft, the Avalanche acquires center and pending unrestricted free agent Carl Soderberg from Boston for the 2016 sixth-round draft pick the Bruins sent to Colorado in the Caron deal.

Ultimately: The trade gave the Avs exclusive negotiating rights before July 1 free agency and they quickly signed Soderberg to a five-year, $23.75 million contract.

Verdict: Soderberg is the Avs’ ironman and he produced a career-high 51 points last season but has fallen off dramatically this season and — most daunting — is owed $4.75 million in each of the next three years. Unless he experiences a revival, that contract will go down as an albatross.

June 26, 2015

Forwards Ryan O’Reilly and Jamie McGinn are sent to Buffalo for young Russians Mikhail Grigorenko (forward) and Nikita Zadorov (defenseman), forward prospect J.T. Compher and the Sabres’ second-round pick (31st overall) in the 2015 draft. The deal is the result of the Avalanche’s lack of progress in contract extension negotiations with O’Reilly and the desire to avoid a repeat of what happened with Stastny in 2014 — losing him for nothing as an unrestricted free agent.

Ultimately: A day after the trade, the Avs traded the 31st pick to San Jose for No. 39 (forward A.J. Greer), a second-round choice in 2016 and a sixth-rounder in 2017. The latter two draft picks acquired were the same ones traded to San Jose in the Brad Stuart deal a year earlier.

Verdict: Too soon to call and arguably taking a turn toward Colorado’s favor. Zadorov, 21, could become a franchise defenseman and Grigorenko, 22, has potential — but has failed in top-six opportunities with Roy and new coach Jared Bednar. Greer and Compher, meanwhile, are two of Colorado’s most exciting young forward prospects. O’Reilly, who signed a seven-year, $52.5 million contract extension with Buffalo, a deal which would have made him the highest-paid player on the Avalanche roster, always has been more about two-way contributions and not glittery numbers, but he has been especially lackluster with the Sabres.

July 1, 2015

Avalanche signs former Anaheim Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin to a three-year, $13.5 million contract. Beauchemin was next in line in a revolving door of defensemen Colorado has paired up with Erik Johnson, the Avalanche’s best defenseman.

Ultimately: Beauchemin had a great start to his first season with the Avalanche. But since then, age has caught up to the blue-liner, who is still under contract for another season. And like Stuart, Beauchemin holds an over-35 contract, which means the Avalanche will be on the hook for 100 percent of his cap hit even if he is bought out this summer.

Verdict: Another case of Sakic “over-terming” and asking for too much from an aging veteran.

Feb. 21, 2016

A week before the trade deadline, the Avs acquire power forward and pending UFA Shawn Matthias from Toronto for forward prospect Colin Smith and Colorado’s 2016 fourth-round pick.

Ultimately: Matthias had six goals in 20 games, so in that sense, this “worked.” Yet he couldn’t help the Avs get into the playoffs. Although he said he wanted to continue in Colorado, he signed a two-year, $4.25 million contract with Winnipeg on July 1.

Verdict: The Avs took a chance, trying to make the playoffs, and lost a prospect and a draft pick.

Feb. 29, 2016

At the trade deadline, Colorado acquires forward Mikkel Boedker from Arizona for forward Alex Tanguay and prospects Conner Bleackley and Kyle Wood — the Avs’ top two 2014 draft picks.

Ultimately: Like Matthias, Boedker didn’t help get Colorado in the playoffs and although Colorado tried to re-sign him, he ended up with a four-year deal at San Jose. Losing pending UFA Tanguay was simply a salary swap but the Coyotes won big with Bleackley — who represented a second-round draft pick at the time — and Wood. Like the Avs, the Coyotes had no intention of signing Bleackley but inherited the 2016 second-round compensatory draft pick behind the former first-rounder, and the 6-foot-5 Wood is averaging more than a point per game for the Tucson Roadrunners and is an AHL all-star as a first-year pro.

Verdict: Lopsided loss for Colorado, even if it had made the playoffs.

Feb. 29, 2016

Also at the deadline, the Avalanche acquires Eric Gelinas from the New Jersey Devils for a third-round draft pick in 2017. Gelinas, another product of the QMJHL, played in six games before a season-ending elbow injury.

Ultimately: This season, Gelinas has struggled to gain the trust of the coaching staff and has just one assist in 18 games — the only point on record with the Avs.

Verdict: Another bottom-pairing defenseman acquired by Sakic, only this time costing the Avs a respectable draft pick in the upcoming draft.

July 1, 2016

Forward Joe Colborne signs a two-year, $5 million contract with the Avalanche after scoring a career-high 19 goals with Calgary in 2015-16.

Ultimately: The former DU standout is a Calgary native who was not qualified by the Flames as an unrestricted free agent, thus he became a UFA.

Verdict: Colborne was a healthy scratch for the ninth time Thursday and is on a 30-game goal-less drought since producing a hat trick opening night.