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
1Axel ElofssonD · HockeyAllsvenskan182026 · #12818 GP · 0-19-19▲8
2Cole TuminaroD · USHL192026 · #14054 GP · 5-11-16▼6
3Francesco Dell'ElceD · NCAA212025 · #7711 GP · 2-2-4▼89
4Mikhail GulyayevD · KHL212023 · #3122 GP · 3-10-13▼3
5Ondrej RumlD · OHL182026 · #21416 GP · 8-8-16▲7
6Nikita IshimnikovD · VHL212023 · #15517 GP · 2-1-3▼11
7Linus FunckD · OHL192025 · #11818 GP · 3-6-9▼15
8Gustav StjernbergD · AHL23Undrafted14 GP · 0-3-3▼14
9Domenick FensoreD · AHL252019 · #9014 GP · 0-12-12▲12
10Theodore LechnerD · USHL182026 · #15213 GP · 1-3-4▼3
11Tory PitnerD · NCAA202024 · #1853 GP · 0-0-0▼1
12Saige WeinsteinD · ECHL21Undrafted9 GP · 0-2-2▲5
13Sean BehrensD · AHL232021 · #6114 GP · 1-3-4▼3
14Alex GagneD · AHL242021 · #19214 GP · 2-0-2▼2
15Chris 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