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It’s been a summer of changes for the Colorado Eagles. The American League affiliate of the Colorado Avalanche were dealt a Pacific Division first-round exit by the Coachella Valley Firebirds – Seattle’s AHL team – making for a 2023 season finale not so different from their parent club. After 53 different players dressed for the Eagles throughout the course of…
With the NHL offseason basically over at this point (cue major trade announcement just to spite me), we’re going to do a couple of roundtables over the next week or two looking back at the changes made and how we all see the landscape going into the preseason. Which single move of the summer did you like the most and…
“People who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love.”
– Condoleezza Rice
After a couple of weeks of waiting, the Colorado Avalanche and Ross Colton agreed to terms on a four-year contract Monday evening. The deal is worth $16M total, giving Colton a salary-cap hit of $4M per season. Colton had filed for arbitration and the hearing was set for July 27, but with this agreement that hearing will obviously be canceled.…
The Colorado Avalanche wrapped up day two of their 2023 development camp on Tuesday. Following a schedule similar to Monday, players got on the ice for three sessions (including a separate goalie session). The day was split into two groups and culminated in a final session with the entire camp. Today, Jared Bednar joined the main group to provide valuable…
The Colorado Avalanche opened their 2023 Development Camp on Monday. The players took to the ice for the first of three on-ice sessions. The camp will conclude with a four-on-four scrimmage at Family Sports on Wednesday. Monday, July 3 On-ice sessions at Family Sports (two different groups) 8:15 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 4…
Avs Prospects are on the ice for day one of dev camp including new draftees Jeremy Hanzel and Mikhail Gulyayev as well as some invites and signings like Sam Maliniski. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_g7VmsKJDA
The Colorado Avalanche hung out for a few hours as the NHL’s league calendar turned over and the organization paid Nathan MacKinnon a shade under $16M today in signing bonus money as the contract that makes him the NHL’s highest-paid player began today. After watching a lot of third-pairing defensemen get paid more than $3M per year, the Avs struck…
NHL Free agency opens in a little over 12 hours and the market changed a whole bunch earlier today when an eye-popping 113 players around the NHL did not receive qualifying offers from their clubs, theoretically making them free agents. One of the players who did not receive a qualifying offer was Colorado’s Denis Malgin, who had arbitration rights this…
with the 31st pick in the NHL Draft the Colorado Avalanche selected Mikhail Gulyayev a Russian offensive defenseman who could be the perfect fit for the Avs’ system. Here are some of his highlights. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUIdaWnZlbE
The 2023 NHL Draft has come and gone and the Colorado Avalanche, in a decision surprising to many of us, made both of the first-round selections they ended up walking into the draft with while also using their own picks in rounds 5-7. That means there are five new prospects in the Avalanche pipeline. Let’s see who the Avs got.…
The Colorado Avalanche made two selections in the first round of the 2023 NHL Draft in Nashville on Wednesday night. The Avs originally had the 27th overall pick and opted to keep it. For their first selection, they chose right-shot centerman Calum Ritchie from the OHL’s Oshawa Generals. The 6’2” forward brings undeniable size and a keen hockey sense that…
A day after trading young center Alex Newhook to the Montreal Canadiens, the Colorado Avalanche used part of the return from that deal to find his replacement in landing Ross Colton from the Tampa Bay Lightning. The final trade came down to Colton for the 37th pick, the later of the two picks acquired yesterday in the Newhook deal. Colton…
Since I started covering the Colorado Avalanche in some form back around 2009, the Avs have had two first-round picks as many years as they’ve not had a first-round pick at all. That is to say, it’s happened twice, back in 2011 when the team selected Gabe Landeskog and Duncan Siemens and 2019 when they took Bowen Byram and Alex…
In what has been a predictably busy day for the NHL, the Colorado Avalanche got in on the action with a surprising move of their own when they moved young forward Alex Newhook to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for picks 31 and 37 in this week’s NHL Draft. Pick 31 will fall near the end of the first round…
In Nashville after being nominated for his third Norris Trophy in just four (full) seasons of hockey, Cale Makar sat down with us to give some perspective on a range of topics including Erik Johnson’s time in Colorado, the newest addition of Ryan Johansen, and Colorado’s building excitement to remain contenders. How much different has this off season been for…
Colorado’s biggest need has been filled. What would you most like to see the Avs address next? AJ: I’ve always been a defense-first kind of guy, but even with the hole(s) on the Avalanche blueline, I want to see how they fill the myriad of forward jobs. I wonder if the injury issues last year will push the team to…
Roast my roster is back as we take a look at listener submissions for what the Avs should do with their roster this offseason and talk about the good, bad, and ugly ideas out there. AJ Haefele and Rudo come to you LIVE from DNVR HQ to break down everything you need to know in this edition of the DNVR…
With Colorado picking 27th in the NHL Draft there are tons of different options but Michael Hrabal, David Edstrom, and Otto Stenberg share a number of similarities to other players they have picked in recent history. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZdkOjgGvM
The Avalanche kickstarted their offseason on Saturday morning by agreeing to a trade that will send pending free agent Alex Galchenyuk to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Ryan Johansen. In addition to the players, Nashville agreed to retain 50% of Johansen’s remaining contract. I’m going to give a grade of the trade at the end because that’s what everyone…
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