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…
While the NHL Draft is next week and we’ve been focusing a lot of our energy there, just two days after the completion of the draft is the opening of free agency. It’s already been a rumor-filled offseason as teams face the unexpected flat salary cap and their desire to improve to chase next year’s Stanley Cup. For all teams,…...
The Colorado Avalanche added two new faces during free agency today. Here's what their underlying numbers mean for the team.
The Colorado Avalanche made their second signing of free agency with the pickup of forward Matt Calvert.
Jonathan Bernier, a one-time No. 1 goaltender with the Toronto Maple Leafs who had a strong season with the Anaheim Ducks in a backup role in 2016-17, will sign a new free-agent contract with the Colorado Avalanche Saturday, NHL sources tell BSNDenver. Terms of the contract are not yet available. Bernier, 28, had a cap hit of $4.2 million with…...
The hope, the plan, was to have Will Butcher signed, sealed and delivered to the Colorado Avalanche by now. It hasn’t happened yet, and with every passing day closer to Aug. 15, hope grows dimmer. The University of Denver defenseman, the winner of the Hobey Baker Award as college hockey’s best player this past season, technically remains property of…...
Yesterday we took a look at which UFA forwards the Avalanche should pursue when NHL Free Agency opens later this afternoon but today, with just a few hours left before “Free Agent Frenzy” we turn our attention to the defensemen available in this UFA class. As one of the worst possession teams in the NHL last season, the Colorado Avalanche’s…...
Amidst all the clatter and excitement of the Ryan O’Reilly trade and the NHL Draft this weekend, the Colorado Avalanche made a sneaky, very suspicious move which should put General Managers in Calgary and Chicago on high alert. Before the start of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft’s second round, the Avalanche swapped the 31st overall pick (obtained from…...
Per Craig Custance of ESPN, the Colorado Avalanche has signed center Carl Soderberg to a 5-year contract extension. With trade rumors swirling around the NHL Thursday afternoon, the Avalanche were the first team to make headlines by trading their 6th round selection in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft for the negotiating rights to Unrestricted Free Agent Carl Soderberg. After a…...
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