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

Prospects and the Colorado Avalanche'sNHL players aged 23 and under, scored on the same scale. A regular's odds are high because he is already there; his score says how good the players like him became.

95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Ilya NabokovG · KHL232024 · #388 GP · .929 AHL▼3
2Fedor SvechkovC · NHL · NHL232021 · #1918 GP · 2-5-7Here
3Gavin BrindleyC · NHL · NHL212023 · #345 GP · 0-1-1Here
4Egor ShilovC · QMJHL182026 · #4318 GP · 12-16-28▲1
5Axel ElofssonD · HockeyAllsvenskan182026 · #12818 GP · 0-19-19▲8
6Zachary L'HeureuxL · NHL · NHL232021 · #273 GP · 0-1-1
7Beckett HamiltonC · WHL182026 · #7417 GP · 13-14-27▼2
8Cole TuminaroD · USHL192026 · #14054 GP · 5-11-16▼6
9Louka CloutierG · NCAA202024 · #1328 GP · .895▼8
10Will ZellersL · NCAA202024 · #769 GP · 3-5-8▼9
11Tobias TvrznikG · WHL192026 · #12611 GP · .931▼2
12Nikita PrishchepovC · AHL222024 · #21714 GP · 4-1-5▼25
13Alexandre RaymondG · QMJHL182026 · #21513 GP · .909▲3
14Francesco Dell'ElceD · NCAA212025 · #7711 GP · 2-2-4▼89
15Mikhail GulyayevD · KHL212023 · #3122 GP · 3-10-13▼3
16Shawn CarrierL · QMJHL192026 · #19513 GP · 7-9-16▲1
17Fabian LysellR · AHL232021 · #211 GP · 0-0-0▼13
18Christian HumphreysC · NCAA202024 · #21510 GP · 5-1-6▼46
19Ivan YuninG · VHL202024 · #13715 GP · .923▲2
20Nolan RoedC · NCAA202025 · #2149 GP · 3-5-8▲3
21Jake FisherC · NCAA212024 · #1219 GP · 2-1-3▼6
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
26Maros JedlickaC · AHL232023 · #21914 GP · 2-3-5▼5
27Gustav StjernbergD · AHL23Undrafted14 GP · 0-3-3▼14
28Theodore LechnerD · USHL182026 · #15213 GP · 1-3-4▼3
29Tory PitnerD · NCAA202024 · #1853 GP · 0-0-0▼1
30Saige WeinsteinD · ECHL21Undrafted9 GP · 0-2-2▲5
31Sean BehrensD · AHL232021 · #6114 GP · 1-3-4▼3
32Chris 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