Colorado Avalanche (COL)
Est. 1979
Current Cap Hit: $98,571,666
Projected Cap Hit:
$91,156,464.51
Projected Cap Space:
$4,343,535.489999995
Contracts: 45
Roster: 29
Injuries: 5
Retained Contracts: 0
Team logo history
Draft Picks
| Season | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | Round 7 |
| 2025-2026 |
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| 2027-2028 |
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| 2028-2029 |
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NHL Roster
| # | Offense | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | 2030-2031 | |
| 29 | Nathan MacKinnon | NMC | C | 30 | UFA | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | $12,600,000 | |
| 11 | Brock Nelson | NTC | C | 34 | UFA | $7,500,000 | $7,500,000 | $7,500,000 | ||||
| 92 | Gabriel Landeskog | NMC, M-NTC | LW | 32 | UFA | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | $7,000,000 | |||
| 88 | Martin Nečas | C | 26 | UFA | $6,500,000 | |||||||
| 13 | Valeri Nichushkin | M-NTC | RW | 30 | UFA | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | $6,125,000 | ||
| 62 | Artturi Lehkonen | M-NTC | LW | 30 | UFA | $4,500,000 | $4,500,000 | |||||
| 20 | Ross Colton | M-NTC | C | 29 | UFA | $4,000,000 | $4,000,000 | |||||
| 18 | Jack Drury | C | 25 | RFA | $1,725,000 | |||||||
| 95 | Victor Olofsson | LW | 30 | UFA | $1,575,000 | |||||||
| 94 | Joel Kiviranta | LW | 29 | UFA | $1,250,000 | |||||||
| 54 |
Gavin Brindley
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C | 21 | RFA | $950,000 | |||||||
| 38 |
Chase Bradley
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LW | 23 | RFA | $872,500 | |||||||
| 93 |
Zakhar Bardakov
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C | 24 | RFA | $867,500 | |||||||
| 17 | Parker Kelly | LW | 26 | UFA | $825,000 | $1,700,000 | $1,700,000 | $1,700,000 | $1,700,000 | |||
| 85 |
Nikita Prishchepov
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C | 21 | RFA | $806,666 | $806,666 | ||||||
| # | Defense | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | 2030-2031 | |
| 8 | Cale Makar | D | 27 | UFA | $9,000,000 | $9,000,000 | ||||||
| 7 | Devon Toews | NMC | D | 31 | UFA | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | $7,250,000 | |
| 49 |
Samuel Girard
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M-NTC | D | 27 | UFA | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 | |||||
| 42 | Josh Manson | M-NTC | D | 34 | UFA | $4,500,000 | $3,950,000 | $3,950,000 | ||||
| 70 | Sam Malinski | D | 27 | UFA | $1,400,000 | |||||||
| 84 | Brent Burns | D | 40 | UFA | $1,000,000 | |||||||
| 4 |
Jacob MacDonald
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D | 32 | UFA | $775,000 | |||||||
| 98 | Ilya Solovyov | D | 25 | RFA | $775,000 | |||||||
| 3 |
Ronnie Attard
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D | 26 | UFA | $775,000 | |||||||
| # | Goaltending | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | 2030-2031 | |
| 39 | Mackenzie Blackwood | M-NTC | G | 28 | UFA | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 | ||
| 41 | Scott Wedgewood | G | 33 | UFA | $1,500,000 | |||||||
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Ilya Nabokov
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G | 22 | RFA | $975,000 | $975,000 | |||||||
| 50 | Trent Miner | G | 24 | RFA | $775,000 | $775,000 | ||||||
| # | LTIR | Clause | Position | Age | Expires As | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | 2030-2031 | |
| 25 | Logan O'Connor | M-NTC | RW | 29 | UFA | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 | $2,500,000 |
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Non-Roster
Money in parentheses is the base NHL cap hit
| Non-roster | Position | Age | Expires As | 2025-2026 | 2026-2027 | 2027-2028 | 2028-2029 | 2029-2030 | 2030-2031 | ||
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Taylor Makar
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LW | 24 | RFA |
$0
($925,000) |
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Cooper Gay
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RW | 23 | RFA |
$0
($872,500) |
$0
($872,500) |
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Ivan Ivan
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C | 23 | RFA |
$0
($845,000) |
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| Tye Felhaber | LW | 27 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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Matthew Stienburg
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C | 25 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Jason Polin | RW | 26 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| T.J. Tynan | C | 33 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Alex Barré-Boulet | C | 28 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Danil Gushchin | LW | 23 | RFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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Alex Gagne
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D | 23 | RFA |
$0
($910,000) |
$0
($910,000) |
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Sean Behrens
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D | 22 | RFA |
$0
($905,833) |
$0
($905,833) |
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Saige Weinstein
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D | 20 | RFA |
$0
($783,333) |
$0
($783,333) |
$0
($783,333) |
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| Keaton Middleton | D | 27 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Wyatt Aamodt | D | 27 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
$0
($775,000) |
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| Jack Ahcan | D | 28 | UFA |
$0
($775,000) |
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Isak Posch
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G | 23 | RFA |
$0
($872,500) |
$0
($872,500) |
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| Jean-Luc Foudy | C | 23 | RFA | ||||||||
| William Dufour | RW | 23 | RFA | ||||||||
| John Ludvig | D | 25 | RFA | ||||||||
Reserve Rights
| Player | Age | Position | Expiration | Draft | Pick | |
| Jean-Luc Foudy | 23 | C | Qualifying Offer | 2020 | 75 OA (round 3) |
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| John Ludvig | 25 | D | Qualifying Offer | 2019 | 69 OA (round 3) |
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| William Dufour | 23 | RW | Qualifying Offer | 2020 | 152 OA (round 5) |
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| 2025 Expiration | ||||||
| Maroš Jedlička | 23 | RW,LW | 2025-06-01 | 2023 | 219 OA (round 7) |
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| 2027 Expiration | ||||||
| Francesco Dell'Elce | 20 | D | 2027-06-01 | 2025 | 77 OA (round 3) |
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| Chris Romaine | 21 | D | 2027-08-15 | 2022 | 193 OA (round 6) |
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| 2028 Expiration | ||||||
| Maxmilian Curran | 19 | 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 | ||||||
| Linus Funck | 18 | D | 2029-06-01 | 2025 | 118 OA (round 4) |
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| Nolan Roed | 20 | C | 2029-06-01 | 2025 | 214 OA (round 7) |
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| Christian Humphreys | 19 | C | 2029-08-15 | 2024 | 215 OA (round 7) |
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| Louka Cloutier | 19 | G | 2029-08-15 | 2024 | 132 OA (round 5) |
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| Other Expiration | ||||||
| Ivan Yunin | 19 | 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 | 26 | G | Indefinite | 2018 | 202 OA (round 7) |
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| Vladislav Kamenev | 29 | C | Indefinite | 2014 | 42 OA (round 2) |
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