Salary Cap: Chris MacFarland - Record as Avalanche GM (Updates In First Post)

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How would you rate the job Chris MacFarland has done to date as Avalanche GM? (editable)


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It's possible he still has one more strong move, but I'm not confident.
3.2M cap space. I would imagine 2C is the target. Mitts going the other way would free up 5.75M more, so the 2C could cost up to 8.95M. Whether there's a player available on the market is another story.
 
How much then? I just checked Puckpedia and they had updated the trade already so I thought it was correct.


From centers I don't actually know. Was just looking through trade boards to see if there was conveniently someone in the range we had left.
I'll give you a hint, his cap hit matches his number.
 
6th trade this season.

1. October 6th:

COL gets:​
D Tucker Poolman (VAN retains $500k)​
2025 VAN 4th round pick​
VAN gets:​
D Erik Brannstrom​
2. November 30th:

COL gets:​
G Scott Wedgewood​
NSH gets:​
G Justus Annunen​
2025 COL 6th round pick​
3. December 9th:

COL gets:​
G Mackenzie Blackwood​
F Givani Smith​
2027 SJS 5th round pick​
SJS gets:​
G Alexandar Georgiev (COL retains $476k)​
F Nikolai Kovalenko​
2026 COL 2nd round pick​
2025 COL 5th round pick​
4. December 28th:

COL gets:​
F Juuso Parssinen​
2026 NYR 7th round pick​
NSH gets:​
F Ondrej Pavel​
2027 COL 3rd round pick​
5. January 24th:

COL gets:​
F Martin Necas​
F Jack Drury​
2025 CAR 2nd round pick​
2026 CAR 4th round pick​
CAR gets:​
F Mikko Rantanen​
6. March 1st:

COL gets:​
D Ryan Lindgren (NYR retains $2.25m)​
F Jimmy Vesey​
D Hank Kempf​
NYR gets:​
F Juuso Parssinen​
D Calvin de Haan​
2025 NYR 2nd round pick​
2025 VAN 4th round pick​
CMac's biggest problem at this point is the move he hasn't made. Jared Bednar.

Unless he has a 2C in his back pocket and they are just waiting until the last possible moment to make the deal, I do not see this deadline going well. We've already blown a load on a questionable upgrade at best on the bottom d-pair.

Dude's going to have to be able to pull a rabbit out of a hat in less than a week. Not liking his chances. If he fired Bednar earlier in the season I could be convinced to allow CMac to continue this summer... but at this point, I think I'd like to see a full change. We've already jettisoned a star plyaer (I'm not saying it wasn't the right move)... maybe it's time for management to feel the heat of losing.
 
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Not the Crosby I was looking for.

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