31 in 31: Colorado Avalanche

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Created by: eddyed24

Team: 2018-19 Colorado Avalanche

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 8, 2018

Published: Aug. 8, 2018

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Through the month of august I'll make a quick review of the 31 teams and how they could improve the team short or long term depending on the team, via a trade or a sign. Today the Colorado Avalanche. It was fun to see the last team the year before by a mile to a team that didn't look out of place on the playoffs against the Présidents Trophy team. Colorado will want to repeat last year success. That's why they trade to get Grubauer to form a excellent duo with Varlamov. The defense looks good and the addition of Cole bring Stanley cup pedigree while allowing prospect Timmins or Makar to develop more. The main problem I think is the secondary scoring. The first line did most of the damage last year but they will need some support from the other lines. With that in mind I would suggest a trade at the trade deadline. Any positive comment is appreciated.

Trades

COL

Zuccarello, Mats

Additional Details:

A skilled player that could helped Colorado at the deadline. NYR are rebuilding on the fly and will try to sell some assets like they did last year.

NYR

Nieto, Matt
2019 2nd round pick (COL)
2020 4th round pick (COL)

Additional Details:

NYR will want a player who could at least until of the season play on the roster, but will be more interested on the drafts picks.

Buyouts

Brooks Orpik: $2,500,000
Francois Beauchemin: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$79,500,000	$65,058,928	$0	$2,195,000	$14,441,072

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Landeskog, Gabriel $5,571,429$5,571,429 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 3	MacKinnon, Nathan $6,300,000$6,300,000 C UFA - 5	Rantanen, Mikko $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, C UFA - 1
Jost, Tyson $885,833$885,833 ($850,000$850K) C UFA - 2	Kerfoot, Alexander $925,000$925,000 ($212,500$212K) LW, C, RW UFA - 1	Zuccarello, Mats $3,150,000$3,150,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Kamenev, Vladislav $833,333$833,333 C RFA - 1		Compher, J.T. $925,000$925,000 ($100,000$100K) C, RW UFA - 1
Calvert, Matt $2,850,000$2,850,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Söderberg, Carl $4,750,000$4,750,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 2	Andrighetto, Sven $1,400,000$1,400,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Wilson, Colin $3,937,500$3,937,500 C, LW UFA - 1	Toninato, Dominic $925,000$925,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Bourque, Gabriel $950,000$950,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Zadorov, Nikita $2,150,000$2,150,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Barrie, Tyson $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD UFA - 2	Grubauer, Philipp $3,333,333$3,333,333 G UFA - 3
Girard, Samuel $728,333$728,333 ($182,500$182K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 5	Varlamov, Semyon $5,900,000$5,900,000 G UFA - 1
Cole, Ian $3,450,000$3,450,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Nemeth, Patrik $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 1
Barberio, Mark $1,450,000$1,450,000 LD UFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Landeskog, G.		MacKinnon, N.		Rantanen, M.
	Zuccarello, M.		Barrie, T.

Power Play 2
Kerfoot, A.		Jost, T.		Compher, J.
	Girard, S.		Johnson, E.

Penalty Kill 1
	Söderberg, C.	Calvert, M.
	Zadorov, N.	Johnson, E.

Penalty Kill 2
	Jost, T.	Andrighetto, S.
	Cole, I.	Nemeth, P.

Aug. 8, 2018 at 1:48 p.m.

tp47

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 148

Likes: 48

Edited Aug. 8, 2018 at 2:16 p.m.

You're right that secondary scoring is an issue for COL, but I don't see Zuccarello being a good fit.
1) He's an upcoming UFA, and this won't be a year for COL to make a deep playoff push. Still rebuilding at this point
2) COL is trying to grow around its young core, and bringing in a 31-yr old (at TDL) doesn't help that. COL has been burned by aging veterans in the past few years
3) Tying into 1&2, giving up a 26-yr old (at TDL) Nieto and a couple prospects doesn't make a lot of sense. Even though you definitely get a talent upgrade from a 3rd/4th liner in Nieto

I would lean more towards players like Burakovsky, Stone, Panarin, Nylander, and JT Miller. I know those guys are very likely unobtainable, but that's more of the fit in age/top-6 quality. I think Sakic will ride out this year without major changes to the team, but we'll see.

Aug. 8, 2018 at 4:57 p.m.

BDAvs

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 330

Likes: 49

Not bad. Like said previously, if they're a wildcard team I probably wouldn't. But if they prove they can win the division, maybe it's a decent gamble.

Aug. 9, 2018 at 1:06 p.m.

rangersandislesfan

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Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 29,924

Likes: 4,652

Zuccarello is so underrated. That's not gonna get him. Yes, he's a UFA in a year but the NYR can try to sign him and if he's traded NOW, they'd get more for a consistent 50 point scorer and sometimes 60-ish point scorer.

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