Prospects · Colorado Avalanche · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Colorado Avalanche prospects

Every player in the Colorado Avalanche's system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

26thColorado Avalanche: pipeline rank among 32 organizations1 in the league top 100 · 36 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Ilya NabokovG · KHL232024 · #388 GP · .929 AHL▼3
2Egor ShilovC · QMJHL182026 · #4318 GP · 12-16-28▲1
3Axel ElofssonD · HockeyAllsvenskan182026 · #12818 GP · 0-19-19▲8
4T.J. HughesR · NHL24Undrafted18 GP · 2-5-7▲55
5Trent MinerG · AHL252019 · #2024 GP · .921▲24
6Beckett HamiltonC · WHL182026 · #7417 GP · 13-14-27▼2
7Cole TuminaroD · USHL192026 · #14054 GP · 5-11-16▼6
8Louka CloutierG · NCAA202024 · #1328 GP · .895▼8
9Will ZellersL · NCAA202024 · #769 GP · 3-5-8▼9
10Tobias TvrznikG · WHL192026 · #12611 GP · .931▼2
11Nikita PrishchepovC · AHL222024 · #21714 GP · 4-1-5▼25
12Alexandre RaymondG · QMJHL182026 · #21513 GP · .909▲3
13Francesco Dell'ElceD · NCAA212025 · #7711 GP · 2-2-4▼89
14Mikhail GulyayevD · KHL212023 · #3122 GP · 3-10-13▼3
15Shawn CarrierL · QMJHL192026 · #19513 GP · 7-9-16▲1
16Fabian LysellR · AHL232021 · #211 GP · 0-0-0▼13
17Christian HumphreysC · NCAA202024 · #21510 GP · 5-1-6▼46
18Ivan YuninG · VHL202024 · #13715 GP · .923▲2
19Nolan RoedC · NCAA202025 · #2149 GP · 3-5-8▲3
20Jake FisherC · NCAA212024 · #1219 GP · 2-1-3▼6
21Georgii MerkulovC · AHL25Undrafted70 GP · 24-37-61▼9
22Matthew DiMarsicoC · AHL22Undrafted14 GP · 2-2-4▼48
23Ondrej RumlD · OHL182026 · #21416 GP · 8-8-16▲7
24Nikita IshimnikovD · VHL212023 · #15517 GP · 2-1-3▼11
25Linus FunckD · OHL192025 · #11818 GP · 3-6-9▼15
26Taylor MakarL · NHL252021 · #2202 GP · 0-0-0▲7
27Maros JedlickaC · AHL232023 · #21914 GP · 2-3-5▼5
28Gustav StjernbergD · AHL23Undrafted14 GP · 0-3-3▼14
29Domenick FensoreD · AHL252019 · #9014 GP · 0-12-12▲12
30Theodore LechnerD · USHL182026 · #15213 GP · 1-3-4▼3
31Tory PitnerD · NCAA202024 · #1853 GP · 0-0-0▼1
32Saige WeinsteinD · ECHL21Undrafted9 GP · 0-2-2▲5
33Cooper GayR · AHL24Undrafted12 GP · 0-1-1▼39
34Sean BehrensD · AHL232021 · #6114 GP · 1-3-4▼3
35Alex GagneD · AHL242021 · #19214 GP · 2-0-2▼2
36Chris RomaineD · NCAA222022 · #1933 GP · 0-0-0▲1

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work