Studs Riley Tufte I have long been a Tufte detractor as someone who has been watching him since he was in high school, so I’m not coming from a place of wanting the player to be good and believing he had untapped potential or anything (as I am with Jonathan Drouin, who I’ll get to very soon). I always think…
Studs Jonathan Drouin There were a lot of players I really liked tonight but Drouin stood out among them. I thought, keeping in mind this is still a preseason game and established NHL guys aren’t going all-out, Drouin was great. His play with the puck popped the way that it should and he came alive in an electrifying way. Watching…
Studs The Dallas guys There are actually four of these guys that the Avs signed away from the Stars this offseason (Tanner Kero, the fourth, is on an AHL contract) but each of Joel Kiviranta, Fredrik Olofsson and Riley Tufte had great moments in this. Kiviranta and Tufte each scored goals but it was the way the trio played together…
Training camp is finished and preseason games begin Sunday when the Minnesota Wild send a group to Denver to unofficially begin the new season. As the preseason transitions from practices to games (the Avs have three games over the next five days), I wanted to do a rundown of where the roster stands right now and what guys to keep…
Training camp is all wrapped up for the year as the Avalanche jump right into preseason action with their first two games the next couple of days as Minnesota and Vegas come rolling into town. I’ve got my thoughts on the final day of camp all written out here for y’all so…enjoy! Colorado’s new third line This Wood-Colton-Tatar line looks…
The second day of Avalanche training camp is in the books! The first day was a bit of a slower day but the first thing I noticed today was that the competitiveness ramped up quite a bit more today. There was a lot more hitting, a lot more communicating (read: yelling), and a lot more hard work going on as…
Studs Oskar Olausson There it is. That’s what we’ve been waiting to see. Olausson played with passion and fire today as he took advantage of the third opportunity to put something on the ice that he can be proud of. It wasn’t that his first two games were terrible or anything close to it, just that for a player of…
Studs Jeremy Hanzel I thought Hanzel had a fine first game but his work in Game 2 was much stronger overall. There are always some defensive zone communication issues in these events because guys have never played together and Hanzel got involved in some of those but I also thought his on-the-fly decision-making was a productive safety valve when the…
Studs Sam Malinski He was the star of the show in Game 1 as he recorded the game-winning goal in overtime and two assists for a three-point night in a game where the Avalanche scored…three times. Pretty good ratio for a kid trying to use this experience as a showcase for why he belongs as a serious contender for the…
Over the last handful of years the Avs have brought in a number of depth players and reclamation projects but have they actually performed betting in Colorado? The numbers a encouraging, and when applied to incoming players like Ross Colton and Ryan Johansen it could spell big things for the Avalanche this season. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ5w719u_zI
On September 12 of last year, the Avalanche added a forward who appeared a great fit for them and hadn’t seen his foray into free agency land the kind of contract he had his sights set on. Evan Rodrigues went on to be a vital addition to the team and one of the steals of the offseason. One year later,…
The Avs head to the annual prospect showcase this weekend in Las Vegas where they will join several teams from the Western Conference in playing three games with rosters comprised of prospects and invitees seeking jobs. Since the Avalanche began participating in this event, things have changed dramatically for the organization as they have gone from being a rebuilding team…
Our top 25 list is fully released as of today and five Avalanche players made the top 11 in Colorado history. It’s a pretty impressive accomplishment and a few of those guys could get even higher in the coming years. For today’s roundtable, I wanted to use that list as a jumping-off point to get into some of our favorite…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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