Colorado Avalanche

C · Colorado Avalanche

A seventh-round Russian who arrived at twenty-four and played sixty games without anyone noticing.

G · Colorado Avalanche

A big goaltender with a long history of carrying bad teams, finally on a good one.

C · Colorado Avalanche

Five-foot-eight, twenty-one years old, and already holding down an NHL job on a contender.

D · Colorado Avalanche

Forty-one years old, 1,579 games, and he was plus-thirty-three playing nineteen minutes a night.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A small, quick veteran winger who has spent eleven years being the thirteenth forward somewhere.

D · Colorado Avalanche

A former first-round pick, ten years on, playing a sheltered third pairing and doing it competently.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A seventeen-year veteran whose ugly plus-minus belongs mostly to a different team.

C · Colorado Avalanche

An undrafted fourth-liner who scored twenty-one goals, which is not what fourth-liners do.

D · Colorado Avalanche

A dependable third-pairing defenceman on his fourth organisation, playing eighty-three games without incident.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

A first-round agitator with twenty-five games last season and a role still to be earned.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

A captain who missed three full seasons to a knee, came back, and was plus-twenty-nine.

LW · Colorado Avalanche

A Finnish winger who scores more than he is given credit for and defends like his job depends on it.

C · Colorado Avalanche

The fastest hard skater in hockey, still adding points at thirty, and the engine of everything this team does.

D · Colorado Avalanche

The best defenceman in the world, and the argument that skating is a more valuable thing to be built out of than size.

D · Colorado Avalanche

An undrafted defenceman who was plus-forty-three, which is the highest number in this edition.

D · Colorado Avalanche

A heavy defensive defenceman who was plus-forty-two and took ninety-one penalty minutes doing it.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A first-round pick who took eight years to arrive and then scored a hundred points.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A thousand games of quiet, heavy, reliable centre play, and thirty-three goals at thirty-four.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A six-foot-four centre who wins faceoffs, kills penalties and has been on a Cup team doing it.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A fifteen-year veteran with a Cup, still useful in a middle-six role at thirty-four.

C · Colorado Avalanche

A first-round Russian centre in a fourth-line role, defensively sound and offensively invisible.

D · Colorado Avalanche

The defenceman who makes the best defenceman in the world possible, and gets a fraction of the attention.

G · Colorado Avalanche

A career backup who, at thirty-three, posted the best save percentage of any goaltender in this edition.