The first overall draft pick (by St. Louis) in 2006 has yet to live up to that lofty status, but the Avalanche believe he can do it and they awarded the big, swift-skating defenseman a four-year, $15 million deal last July. He's now Colorado's highest-paid blueliner and he's still only 24, a key piece of the team's young, promising core. Johnson's just been promising longer than the rest. Will this be the year he delivers?
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