The Need

Created by: SankFeravalli

Team: 2019-20 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 27, 2019

Published: Jan. 7, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Colorado seems to be after another forward. In my very amateur opinion, these are all the qualities that the PERFECT forward addition would possess:
-Speed. He doesn’t have to be a burner, but he can’t slow down the Av’s team speed
-Playmaking. Colorado has some shoot first guys on the second line in Kadri and Burakovsky that could benefit from a set up man. He could also really help the power play.
-Size & Strength. The Avs could use some more edginess in their current forward group
-Versatility. A forward that can play wing or center - if Bednar wants to stretch out the lineup or in case of injury - would be hugely beneficial
-Likability. Team chemistry has been an important part of Colorado’s recent success

In conclusion - Blake Wheeler would be the PERFECT addition to the Avalanche. So if Kevin Cheveldayoff ever loses his mind, hopefully Sakic picks up the phone. In the meantime, we can dream...

Trades

COL

Wheeler, Blake

WPG

Buyouts

Brooks Orpik: $1,500,000

Retained Salary Transactions

Tyson Barrie: $2,750,000 (50%)

Buried

Kevin Connauton: $300,000 ($1,375,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$81,509,761	$0	$3,532,500	-$9,761

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $5,571,429$5,571,429 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 2	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C UFA - 4	Rantanen, Mikko $9,250,000$9,250,000 RW, C UFA - 6
Burakovsky, André $3,250,000$3,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Kadri, Nazem $4,500,000$4,500,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Wheeler, Blake $8,250,000$8,250,000 RW NMC UFA - 5
Nichushkin, Valeri $850,000$850,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Compher, J.T. $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, RW UFA - 4	Donskoi, Joonas $3,900,000$3,900,000 RW UFA - 4
	Bellemare, Pierre-Édouard $1,800,000$1,800,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Calvert, Matt $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Nieto, Matt $1,975,000$1,975,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Jost, Tyson $885,833$885,833 ($850,000$850K) C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Girard, Samuel $728,333$728,333 ($182,500$182K) LD/RD UFA - 1	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 4	Grubauer, Philipp $3,333,333$3,333,333 G UFA - 2
Zadorov, Nikita $3,200,000$3,200,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Makar, Cale $880,833$880,833 ($2,500,000$2M) RD UFA - 2	Francouz, Pavel $950,000$950,000 G UFA - 1
Cole, Ian $3,450,000$3,450,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Graves, Ryan $735,000$735,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Barberio, Mark $1,450,000$1,450,000 LD UFA - 1	Wilson, Colin $2,600,000$2,600,000 C, LW UFA - 1
Kamenev, Vladislav $750,000$750,000 C RFA - 1

Top Comments

Jan. 7, 2020 at 2:26 a.m.

CheechYou

train, train

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 3,013

Likes: 733

I hope y'all appreciate how great Joe Sakic's been... if it isn't against the Sharks in the playoffs, I'm rooting for the Avs. Hell of a team put together. Wheeler would indeed be perfect on this team.

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Jan. 7, 2020 at 2:38 a.m.

SankFeravalli

Joined: Nov. 2015

Posts: 1,086

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Quoting: CheechYou

Things were a little bumpy early on. The O’Reilly trade hasn’t worked out quite as well as Avs fans would have hoped, and the Patrick Roy saga was messy. But pretty much everything he’s touched since the Duchene trade has turned to gold.

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