HFAvs Ranks: The 50 Greatest Avalanche Players - #16

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#1 - Joe Sakic (88.9%)
#2 - Peter Forsberg (55.7%)
#3 - Patrick Roy (89.6%)
#4 - Nathan MacKinnon (71.4%)
#5 - Cale Makar (70.5%)
#6 - Milan Hejduk (50.7%)
#7 - Gabriel Landeskog (42.6%)
#8 - Adam Foote (60.2%)
#9 - Mikko Rantanen (88.8%)
#10 - Alex Tanguay (56.0%)
#11 - Rob Blake (44.7%)
#12 - Erik Johnson (47.7%)
#13 - Claude Lemieux (27.3%)
#14 - Valeri Kamensky (37.1%)
#15 - Semyon Varlamov (28.6%)

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I've had an idea. Let's decide who the greatest players in Avalanche history are.

• You decide what "greatest" means.
• Only judge players based on their Avalanche careers. This means no extra points for Sakic's time with the Nordiques, or Ray Bourque's time with the Bruins.
• Poll will be open for a few days.
• Each time you vote, suggest a player who should be added for the next round.
• If there's no consensus on who should be added I'll just pick the next player who's played the most games.
• Here's a list of everyone: Colorado Avalanche all-time player list at hockeydb.com

Ray Bourque (2000-2001)	Adam Deadmarsh (1995-2001)	Cody McLeod (2007-2017)	Paul Stastny (2006-2014)	Chris Drury (1998-2002)	Stephane Yelle (1995-2002, 2010)	Sandis Ozolinsh (1995-2000)
Games Played: 94	Games played: 405	Games played: 659	Games played: 538	Games played: 314	Games played: 516	Games played: 333
Goals: 15	Goals: 129	Goals: 66	Goals: 160	Goals: 85	Goals: 54	Goals: 72
Assists: 58	Assists: 142	Assists: 51	Assists: 298	Assists: 137	Assists: 90	Assists: 181
Points: 73	Points: 271	Points: 117	Points: 458	Points: 222	Points: 114	Points: 253
Notes: AFTER TWENTY TWO YEARS	Notes: Stanley Cup (1996), his own brand of deli dills.	Notes: 1359 PIM	Notes: Son of Peter, league record for consecutive games with a point by a rookie (20)	Notes: Stanley Cup (2001), Calder Trophy (1999)	Notes: Stanley Cup (1996, 2001)	Notes: Stanley Cup (1996)

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[thedoctor]

Ugh Varly over Deadmarsh, you younguns should be ashamed.

 

[ASmileyFace]

You varly voters got your wish. Varly also is the first player to make the list without a Stanley Cup ring, or even a playoff series win.

 

[McMetal]

Now that Varly is in, I'm actually going with Ozo over Deadmarsh. He was a truly dynamic player, even though he wasn't here for that long.

 

[sethro109]

Ugh Varly over Deadmarsh, you younguns should be ashamed.

They both played 7 seasons for us. You guys just have too much nostalgia for Deadmarsh. Varly was the second best goalie that ever played for us. There was no wrong answer, just preference.

 

[thedoctor]

Now that Varly is in, I'm actually going with Ozo over Deadmarsh. He was a truly dynamic player, even though he wasn't here for that long.

A dynamic turnover machine, you mean. No one gave Roy more opportunities to be great than Ozo.

I acknowledge what he did offensively, but I don't want to forget what a terror he was defensively either. Ranking him here would not be enough recognition of his flaws, imo.

 

[UncleRisto]

They both played 7 seasons for us. You guys just have too much nostalgia for Deadmarsh. Varly was the second best goalie that ever played for us. There was no wrong answer, just preference.

Deadmarsh won... almost two Cups. Varly won three games.

Love Varly though.

 

[GeoRox89]

Can the Deadmarsh and Ozo voters come to a consensus this time or are we going to watch Bourque and/or Paulie Walnuts get in before both?

Add Hinote or Klemm, whichever one is going to not be Duchene

Deadmarsh won... almost two Cups. Varly won three games.

Love Varly though.

Is this like being ‘a little bit pregnant’?

 

[sethro109]

Deadmarsh won... almost two Cups. Varly won three games.

Love Varly though.

Hockey is still a team game. Look at the defenses that Deadmarsh played with vs the ones Varly had to stand on his head for.

 

[UncleRisto]

Hockey is still a team game. Look at the defenses that Deadmarsh played with vs the ones Varly had to stand on his head for.

Well, what can you do. Goes both ways.

 

[Nzap]

Bourque here for me.

Add Hinote.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

Stastny is being criminally underrated here, and punished because most of the teams he played on weren't good. Add Duchene, another guy being ignored because of the situation he left the organization under.

 

[missionAvs]

It's time for Deadmarsh then Ozo.

 

[UncleRisto]

Ngl, if you had the right Upper Deck Victory card between 2000-2004, you instantly became a household name, and I definitely had at least a couple of Adam Deadmarsh. That's for sure how I also came to know about Mike Knuble and Byron Dafoe. No six-year-old should have to know about Byron Dafoe.

 

[HockeyFan100]

Deadmarsh, add Duchene

 

[Bonzai12]

Voting Deadmarsh here just to get rid of the rediculousness, but my real vote would be for Bourque. We’re almost to #20 and the dudes number is in the damn rafters.

 

[sethro109]

Voting Deadmarsh here just to get rid of the rediculousness, but my real vote would be for Bourque. We’re almost to #20 and the dudes number is in the damn rafters.

It was an amazing feel good story, hall of fame player and a legendary hockey moment, but he only played 94 games for the Colorado Avalanche. I just can't bring myself to vote him over some of these guys that played here for almost a decade. The second rule of this thread even states.

Only judge players based on their Avalanche careers. This means no extra points for Sakic's time with the Nordiques, or Ray Bourque's time with the Bruins.

 

[thedoctor]

Voting Deadmarsh here just to get rid of the rediculousness, but my real vote would be for Bourque. We’re almost to #20 and the dudes number is in the damn rafters.

Bourque was great -- otherworldly even -- but it's embarrassing he's in the rafters for us. he was a rental.

so, that has no bearing on where he sits in my Avs pantheon.

 

[GeoRox89]

Voting Deadmarsh here just to get rid of the rediculousness, but my real vote would be for Bourque. We’re almost to #20 and the dudes number is in the damn rafters.

Love Bourque but his number being in the rafters after less than 1.25 season with the Avs remains embarrassing. He didn’t even play 100 regular season games with the Avs. That Roy was not the first player in Avs history to go in the rafters is just mind boggling

That Bourque is arguably a top 20 Av despite playing so few games here is both a testament to how incredible he was and a bit of an indictment of how short lived or unsuccessful a lot of guys Avalanche careers have been

 

[Caser]

Ozolinsh, add Gusarov.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Crazy 8, add Hinote.

 

[Bonzai12]

Add Gusarov

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Ozolinsh.

Add Liles.

 

[Tweaky]

Bourque, add Liles

 

[BrickNHL]

Stastny, add Kadri