HFAvs Ranks: The 50 Greatest Avalanche Players - #1

[Ceremony]

I'm bored at work. Might have missed a few glory era guys since I was too young to pay close attention to the team.

1) Sakic
2) Roy
3) Forsberg
4) MacKinnon
5) Makar
6) Hejduk
7) Landeskog
8) Rantanen
9) Foote
10) Blake
11) EJ
12) Varlamov
13) Tanguay
14) Toews
15) Bourque
16) Ozolinsh
17) Stastny
18) Duchene
19) Kamensky
20) ROR
21) Nichushkin
22) Drury
23) Lemieux
24) Brunette
25) Kadri
26) Burakovsky
27) Deadmarsh
28) Girard
29) Grubauer
30) Barrie
31) Compher
32) Zadorov
33) Liles
34) Gusarov
35) Hannan
36) Hejda
37) Clark
38) Budaj
49) Skrastins
40) Byram
41) Wolski
42) Soderberg
43) Svatos
44) Stewart
45) Aebischer
46) McLeod
47) Yelle
48) Messier
49) Laperriere
50) Klemm

You've always been one of the funniest posters here.

 

[CobraAcesS]

I'm bored at work. Might have missed a few glory era guys since I was too young to pay close attention to the team.

1) Sakic
2) Roy
3) Forsberg
4) MacKinnon
5) Makar
6) Hejduk
7) Landeskog
8) Rantanen
9) Foote
10) Blake
11) EJ
12) Varlamov
13) Tanguay
14) Toews
15) Bourque
16) Ozolinsh
17) Stastny
18) Duchene
19) Kamensky
20) ROR
21) Nichushkin
22) Drury
23) Lemieux
24) Brunette
25) Kadri
26) Burakovsky
27) Deadmarsh
28) Girard
29) Grubauer
30) Barrie
31) Compher
32) Zadorov
33) Liles
34) Gusarov
35) Hannan
36) Hejda
37) Clark
38) Budaj
49) Skrastins
40) Byram
41) Wolski
42) Soderberg
43) Svatos
44) Stewart
45) Aebischer
46) McLeod
47) Yelle
48) Messier
49) Laperriere
50) Klemm

I know Byram is young, but being a big part of a cup team should probably have him over some of those guys lol.

 

[Spleenless Wonder21]

Foppa remains my favorite, Sakic, the best all-time Av & my captain.

 

[Foppa2118]

I think Lehkonen will claw his way up the list of best Avs by the time it's all said and done too. He's only 27 and he's already had some big contributions.

I could see them bringing him back after his deal is up too. He fits the team like a glove.

 

[Avs2022]

The names on this list bring back some memories. I remember Svatos (RIP buddy) rookie season, getting breakaway after breakaway while dangling all over the ice. I though this guy would get to 40 goals a year easily. Injuries ruined his confidence and he became a shell of what he used to be. He had some flashes (double OT playoff goal against the Stars), but was invisible most of the time on the ice.

Wolski was another one. I thought he'd be a great complimentary 2nd line winger. Had the size, poise for awhile, and when shootout started, he'd never miss. IIRC, he commitment to training and his work ethic were getting worse, and he was traded away. I think he was out the NHL soon after.

Karl Skrastins and Rusan Salei I though were decent defenseman, and I enjoyed watching them play. They were traded for each other and never played at the same time for the Avs. They both perished in the 2011 Lokomotiv hockey plane crash. Interesting, Varlomov joined the Avs that season (traded from Capitals). His rights were controlled by Lokomotiv and he was threatening the Caps that he'd return to Russia, but was traded. However, he did want to play for another team other than Lokomotiv, but who knows what would have happened had he returned to Russia.