Rumor: 2026 Trade Rumors and Free Agency: Offseason Edition

[AnimalMother73]

Fill in the 2 left holes with Kulak and Oleksiak for like 6-7m combined.

suspec one of the LD will be under 30 or at least should be

 

[dahrougem2]

The way I see it currently:

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Necas
Lehkonen - Nelson - XXX
L'Heureux - Kadri - Roy
Kelly - Svechkov - O'Connor

I think Hughes/Brindley have to battle for that spot next to Nelson.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

The way I see it currently:

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Necas
Lehkonen - Nelson - XXX
L'Heureux - Kadri - Roy
Kelly - Svechkov - O'Connor

I think Hughes/Brindley have to battle for that spot next to Nelson.

Hughes is a much better player than Brindley right now. Anybody who watched them together with the Eagles will agree with that.

I’d love to see Hughes get that opportunity. I’m telling you, there’s a hell of a hockey player there.

 

[zxczxczxczxczxcz]

Question now is… is it a Kulak re-signing or a trade for that top 4 LHD?

Or both?

We'd have to trade for a LD who's signed to a cheap contract if we want both. Anyone got a list of such candidates? Zellweger for example is RFA without a contract, no idea how much he would demand.

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

Also funny enough, we now have 18 picks over the next 2 drafts! Sure, zero 1st rounders but we dont need to worry about the minor details

 

[The Kingslayer]

TJ Hughes you will never have a better opportunity my boy. Wherever you are I hope you getting faster and stronger.

 

[BoxOfChocolates]

The way I see it currently:

Landeskog - MacKinnon - Necas
Lehkonen - Nelson - XXX
L'Heureux - Kadri - Roy
Kelly - Svechkov - O'Connor

I think Hughes/Brindley have to battle for that spot next to Nelson.

Ehh…

 

[Ararana]

- Teammates were sick of Nichushkin. MacKinnon has outright refused to play with him.

Oooof. Have you reported that before? That was news to me. Glad he's gone now.

 

[dahrougem2]

Hughes is a much better player than Brindley right now. Anybody who watched them together with the Eagles will agree with that.

I’d love to see Hughes get that opportunity. I’m telling you, there’s a hell of a hockey player there.

I agree, but Brindley is a natural winger whereas Hughes would have to learn to play the wing AND be effective providing offense at the NHL level.

I am excited for Hughes but I think he starts at a disadvantage.

 

[Foppa2118]

If they just re-sign Kulak in the off season, and go into the season that way, my concern is they won’t be able to bring in the impact defenseman they’ve needed for years now at the deadline.

Cap space is a hurdle on it’s own after signing Kulak, but after trading Drury, Colton, and Val in the offseason, what assets are they using to bring in an impact defenseman?

No 1st until 2029, no meaningful prospects, very few obviously roster players of value they could shed without getting worse.

I see three possibilities to bring in an impact defenseman at the deadline. Nelson or Kadri are the first two. Both seem unlikely for the Avs to trade at the deadline, and Naz at least can be a dawg in the playoffs.

The other is more likely and also one of the worst guys to lose for the playoffs. Lehky.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Ehh…

We had a super strong roster, dominated the NHL regular season, and still got humiliated in the Western Conference Final.

All 3 of these guys needed to go for a variety of reasons.

Have faith in trying out some new players.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

I agree, but Brindley is a natural winger whereas Hughes would have to learn to play the wing AND be effective providing offense at the NHL level.

I am excited for Hughes but I think he starts at a disadvantage.

Hughes was RW next to Tynan throughout the AHL playoffs. Just fyi.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Guessing we re-sign Kulak in the next couple days. I’m curious who they’re looking at for the other D spot.

 

[EdAVSfan]

We'd have to trade for a LD who's signed to a cheap contract if we want both. Anyone got a list of such candidates? Zellweger for example is RFA without a contract, no idea how much he would demand.

Depends.

If kulak signs for 4.5-5, the Avs have space to trade for a 2-3M bottom pairing guy. Maybe a younger guy that can grow or has potential.

 

[Balthazar]

So how much money do we have now for how many roster spots?

Including the $2,291,841 Bonus Carryover Overage from Burns.

 

[EdAVSfan]

So how much money do we have now for how many roster spots?

Including the $2,291,841 Bonus Carryover Overage from Burns.

A touch over 9M for 3 players. Pretty much all dmen. 2LHD, 3LHD and spare.

 

[RockLobster]

Guessing we re-sign Kulak in the next couple days. I’m curious who they’re looking at for the other D spot.

Mario Ferraro

 

[AvalancheSpeedsters]

We had a super strong roster, dominated the NHL regular season, and still got humiliated in the Western Conference Final.

All 3 of these guys needed to go for a variety of reasons.

Have faith in trying out some new players.

You may be right but since Bednar is back it won’t matter much. . We’ll have games of pure domination, skating will be good, then get shut down in the playoffs as usual by physical stifling teams (Stars, Knights).

 

[avalanche_country]

making room to re-sign burns of course

 

[hockeyfish]

Kulak @ 4.5 would leave them another 4+ for another D. I would guess that one would come from trade.

 

[EdAVSfan]

It’ll be interesting to see if we actually draft a player at 43 on Saturday or if it’s used for a trade

 

[AvsWraith]

Landy - Mack - Necas
Kadri - Brock - Lehky
Kelly - Roy - LOC
??? - ??? - ???
???

Toews - Makar
??? - Malinski
??? - Manson
???

Bwood
Wwood

Roughly 13m in cap space to fill in the blank (includes 2.3m cap overage carried over form last year and 25k for burying Svechkov).

Just trade Kadri if we're planning to play him on the wing.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Buffalo should do it.

 

[Muffin]

We had a super strong roster, dominated the NHL regular season, and still got humiliated in the Western Conference Final.

All 3 of these guys needed to go for a variety of reasons.

Have faith in trying out some new players.

Guessing management is not as down on Nelson as people on here? We'd get a haul at the current market for him though and we'd still have Kadri/Roy down the middle.