Colorado Avalanche (COL)
Est. 1979
Current Cap Hit: $96,876,000
Projected Cap Hit:
$96,876,000
Projected Cap Space:
$-8,876,000
Contracts: 48
Roster: 27
Injuries: 1
Retained Contracts: 1
Team logo history
Draft Picks
| Season | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7 |
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NHL Roster
| # | Offense | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | |
| 29 | Nathan MacKinnon | NMC | C | 29 | UFA | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | + |
| 92 | Gabriel Landeskog | NMC | LW | 32 | UFA | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | ||
| 88 | Martin Nečas | C | 26 | UFA | $6,500,000 | $6,500,000 | ||||||
| 13 | Valeri Nichushkin | NMC | RW | 30 | UFA | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | |
| 29 | Brock Nelson (Ret: 50.0%) | M-NTC | C | 33 | UFA | $3,000,000 | ||||||
| 13 | Charlie Coyle | NMC, M-NTC | C | 33 | UFA | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | |||||
| 62 | Artturi Lehkonen | M-NTC | LW | 29 | UFA | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | ||||
| 20 | Ross Colton | NTC | C | 28 | UFA | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | ||||
| 28 | Miles Wood | M-NTC | LW | 29 | UFA | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | ||
| 27 | Jonathan Drouin | LW | 30 | UFA | $2,500,000 | |||||||
| 18 | Jack Drury | C | 25 | RFA | $1,725,000 | $1,725,000 | ||||||
| 25 | Logan O'Connor | RW | 28 | UFA | $1,050,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | + | |
| 17 | Parker Kelly | LW | 25 | UFA | $825,000 | $825,000 | ||||||
| 26 | Jimmy Vesey | LW | 31 | UFA | $800,000 | |||||||
| 94 | Joel Kiviranta | LW | 29 | UFA | $775,000 | |||||||
| # | Defense | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | |
| 8 | Cale Makar | D | 26 | UFA | $9,000,000 | $9,000,000 | $9,000,000 | |||||
| 7 | Devon Toews | NTC | D | 31 | UFA | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | + |
| 49 | Samuel Girard | M-NTC | D | 26 | UFA | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | ||||
| 42 | Josh Manson | M-NTC | D | 33 | UFA | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | |||||
| 55 | Ryan Lindgren (Ret: 50.0%) | D | 27 | UFA | $2,250,000 | |||||||
| 77 | Erik Johnson | D | 37 | UFA | $1,000,000 | |||||||
| 70 | Sam Malinski | D | 26 | RFA | $850,000 | |||||||
| 67 | Keaton Middleton | D | 27 | UFA | $775,000 | $775,000 | $775,000 | |||||
| # | Goaltending | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | |
| 39 | Mackenzie Blackwood | G | 28 | UFA | $2,350,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | ||
| 41 | Scott Wedgewood | G | 32 | UFA | $1,500,000 | $1,500,000 | ||||||
| 31 | Kevin Mandolese | G | 24 | RFA | $775,000 | |||||||
| # | LTIR | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | |
| 5 | Tucker Poolman (Ret: 20.0%) | D | 31 | UFA | $2,000,000 |
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Non-Roster
Money in parentheses is the base NHL cap hit
| Retained | Position | Age | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | ||||
| Alexandar Georgiev (Ret: 14.000000000000002%) | G | 29 | $476,000 | |||||||||
| Future | Position | Age | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | ||||
| Isak Posch | G | 23 | — | $872,500 | $872,500 | |||||||
| Taylor Makar | LW | 24 | — | $925,000 | ||||||||
| Zakhar Bardakov | C | 24 | — | $867,500 | ||||||||
| Non-roster | Position | Age | Expires As | 2024-2025 | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | |||
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Matthew Stienburg
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C | 24 | RFA |
$0
($898,750) |
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Chase Bradley
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LW | 23 | RFA |
$0
($872,500) |
$0
($872,500) |
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Jere Innala
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LW | 27 | UFA |
$0
($870,000) |
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Oskar Olausson
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RW | 22 | RFA |
$0
($863,333) |
$0
($863,333) |
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William Dufour
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RW | 23 | RFA |
$0
($859,166) |
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Jean-Luc Foudy
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C | 22 | RFA |
$0
($847,500) |
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Ivan Ivan
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C | 22 | RFA |
$0
($845,000) |
$0
($845,000) |
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Nikita Prishchepov
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C | 21 | RFA |
$0
($806,666) |
$0
($806,666) |
$0
($806,666) |
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| Chris Wagner | RW | 33 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| T.J. Tynan | C | 33 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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Jason Polin
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RW | 25 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Matthew Phillips | C | 27 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Tye Felhaber | LW | 26 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
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Sean Behrens
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D | 22 | RFA |
$0
($905,833) |
$0
($905,833) |
$0
($905,833) |
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| Jack Ahcan | D | 27 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| John Ludvig | D | 24 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Jacob MacDonald | D | 32 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Calle Rosén | D | 31 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Wyatt Aamodt | D | 27 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
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Saige Weinstein
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D | 19 | RFA | In Juniors |
$0
($791,666) |
$0
($791,666) |
$0
($791,666) |
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Trent Miner
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G | 24 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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Adam Scheel
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G | 26 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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Reserve Rights
| Player | Age | Position | Expiration | Draft | Pick | |
| 2025 Expiration | ||||||
| Maroš Jedlička | 22 | RW,LW | 2025-06-01 | 2023 | 219 OA (round 7) |
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| Andrei Buyalsky | 24 | C | 2025-08-15 | 2021 | 92 OA (round 3) |
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| Colby Ambrosio | 22 | C | 2025-08-15 | 2020 | 118 OA (round 4) |
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| Hank Kempf | 23 | D | 2025-08-15 | 2021 | 208 OA (round 7) |
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| 2027 Expiration | ||||||
| Chris Romaine | 21 | D | 2027-08-15 | 2022 | 193 OA (round 6) |
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| 2028 Expiration | ||||||
| Maxmilian Curran | 18 | C | 2028-06-01 | 2024 | 161 OA (round 5) |
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| Jake Fisher | 20 | F | 2028-08-15 | 2024 | 121 OA (round 4) |
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| Tory Pitner | 19 | D | 2028-08-15 | 2024 | 185 OA (round 6) |
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| 2029 Expiration | ||||||
| Christian Humphreys | 19 | C | 2029-08-15 | 2024 | 215 OA (round 7) |
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| Louka Cloutier | 18 | G | 2029-08-15 | 2024 | 132 OA (round 5) |
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| Other Expiration | ||||||
| Ilya Nabokov | 22 | G | Indefinite | 2024 | 38 OA (round 2) |
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| Ivan Yunin | 18 | G | Indefinite | 2024 | 137 OA (round 5) |
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| Mikhail Gulyayev | 20 | D | Indefinite | 2023 | 31 OA (round 1) |
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| Nikita Ishimnikov | 20 | D | Indefinite | 2023 | 155 OA (round 5) |
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| Shamil Shmakov | 25 | G | Indefinite | 2018 | 202 OA (round 7) |
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| Vladislav Kamenev | 28 | C | Indefinite | 2014 | 42 OA (round 2) |
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