Only a couple moves remain.
The roster for the 25-26 Colorado Avalanche is coming into focus.
To begin the week the Colorado Avalanche made a small transaction in preparation for their final trio of preseason games. They sent the previously injured Taylor Makar and goaltender Isak Posch to Colorado Eagles camp to trim the roster to 33 players.
Then there was a recall of seven players to round out the roster for the 4-2 win against Vegas. Six of the seven in Tye Felhaber, Jason Polin, Alex Gagne, TJ Tynan, Jayson Megna and Tristen Nielsen were subsequently sent down after the game. Ronnie Attard suffered an injury in the game so remains on the NHL roster for now.
Finally, in advance of the game in Vegas the Avalanche made five more moves to bring the current roster to 29. QMJHL try-out goalie Mathis Langevin was returned to Rinouski. Forwards Maros Jedlicka and Mark Senden were sent to Colorado Eagles camp. Danil Gushchin and Wyatt Aamodt will join them in Loveland after clearing waivers.
Presumably the known injured players (Nikita Prishchepov, Logan O’Connor, Jacob MacDonald, Ronnie Attard, Samuel Girard and Mackenzie Blackwood) will either get sent down or placed on IR, then theoretically no more cuts need to be made to get the roster to 23 before opening night should the Avalanche choose to carry that number of players. Girard is reportedly close to a return so that likely would remove defenseman Jack Ahcan. For Zakhar Bardakov, Gavin Brindley and Matt Stienburg it just depends on how many extra forwards stay on the roster as there’s only room for one regular in the lineup. Trent Miner is the backup goalie until either Blackwood returns or another goalie is acquired.
The Avalanche have one more preseason game on Saturday, October 4th and then need to make their roster cap compliant by Monday October 6th at 5 p.m. ET with anyone needing waivers to get placed on them the day prior. Only just a couple transactions remain until the puck drops for real on the 2025-26 season!
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