Roster · 2025-26 · Colorado Avalanche

Colorado Avalanche, by the numbers

Team

Colorado Avalanche

Season2025-26

Each player is rated out of 100 against NHL players at his position. The bar underneath is his wins above replacement, on a league scale with replacement level marked.

Forwards · 22

Ranked by rating — his percentile among NHL forwards.

C100Nathan MacKinnon80 GP · 1781 min+3.20WAR

C99Brock Nelson81 GP · 1592 min+2.21WAR

C99Martin Necas78 GP · 1677 min+2.21WAR

R91Valeri Nichushkin72 GP · 1276 min+1.56WAR

C88Nazem Kadri77 GP · 1466 min+1.42WAR

C84Parker Kelly82 GP · 1042 min+1.23WAR

C80Jack Drury82 GP · 1187 min+1.10WAR

L80Artturi Lehkonen70 GP · 1294 min+1.10WAR

L77Victor Olofsson79 GP · 1074 min+1.03WAR

L59Gabriel Landeskog60 GP · 985 min+0.66WAR

C54Nicolas Roy74 GP · 1070 min+0.58WAR

C51Ross Colton73 GP · 914 min+0.53WAR

L31Joel Kiviranta51 GP · 529 min+0.28WAR

C27Gavin Brindley56 GP · 535 min+0.23WAR

C22Zakhar Bardakov60 GP · 432 min+0.15WAR

R—Logan O'Connor13 GP · 149 min+0.02WAR

R—Jason Polin4 GP · 30 min+0.00WAR

C—Alex Barré-Boulet2 GP · 17 min+0.00WAR

C—Tristen Nielsen4 GP · 25 min+0.00WAR

C—T.J. Tynan1 GP · 8 min-0.00WAR

L—Taylor Makar12 GP · 75 min-0.00WAR

C—Ivan Ivan9 GP · 67 min-0.00WAR

Defense · 11

Defensemen are ranked against defensemen, never against forwards.

D98Devon Toews68 GP · 1521 min+2.17WAR

D97Cale Makar75 GP · 1864 min+2.03WAR

D96Sam Malinski82 GP · 1445 min+1.88WAR

D87Brent Burns82 GP · 1549 min+1.26WAR

D80Josh Manson79 GP · 1406 min+0.99WAR

D79Samuel Girard60 GP · 1086 min+0.95WAR

D76Nick Blankenburg61 GP · 1025 min+0.82WAR

D24Ilya Solovyov30 GP · 382 min+0.08WAR

D2Brett Kulak83 GP · 1574 min-0.18WAR

D—Jack Ahcan11 GP · 127 min+0.01WAR

D—Keaton Middleton3 GP · 32 min-0.00WAR

Goaltenders · 3

Goalie WAR reaches higher than a skater's, so the bar uses its own league scale.

G93Scott Wedgewood45 GP · 2549 min+3.74WAR

G72Mackenzie Blackwood38 GP · 2156 min+2.17WAR

G24Trent Miner4 GP · 237 min-0.01WAR

A rating needs a minimum workload. Players below it show an em dash rather than a rank built on too few minutes, and are listed last by WAR. How this is calculated