HFAvs Ranks: The 50 Greatest Avalanche Players - #18

[Ceremony]

#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%)
#16 - Adam Deadmarsh (41.8%)
#17 - Sandis Ozolinsh (39.1%)

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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)	Dan Hinote (1999-2006)	Cody McLeod (2007-2017)	Paul Stastny (2006-2014)	Chris Drury (1998-2002)	Stephane Yelle (1995-2002, 2010)	Matt Duchene (2009-2018)
Games Played: 94	Games played: 353	Games played: 659	Games played: 538	Games played: 314	Games played: 516	Games played: 586
Goals: 15	Goals: 27	Goals: 66	Goals: 160	Goals: 85	Goals: 54	Goals: 178
Assists: 58	Assists: 38	Assists: 51	Assists: 298	Assists: 137	Assists: 90	Assists: 250
Points: 73	Points: 65	Points: 117	Points: 458	Points: 222	Points: 114	Points: 428
Notes: AFTER TWENTY TWO YEARS	Notes: Stanley Cup (2001), married a playboy bunny	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: Carried a projection of my hopes and dreams during his draft year

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[ASmileyFace]

Yelle by a landslide.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Drury +1
Duchene -1

Wait...wrong game.

 

[Ceremony]

Yelle's headshots on hockeydb are very strange. Each one genuinely looks like a different person.

 

[CaleMakaw]

Add Barrie

 

[dahrougem2]

I don't understand why - if we are going strictly based on Avalanche careers - Tyson Barrie isn't an option but bottom sixers who spent less overall time here like Yelle and Hinote, and the ultimate 4th liner McLeod are.

 

[Ceremony]

I don't understand why - if we are going strictly based on Avalanche careers - Tyson Barrie isn't an option but bottom sixers who spent less overall time here like Yelle and Hinote, and the ultimate 4th liner McLeod are.

McLeod was added because the thread before he was added there wasn't really a consensus on who should be added. I'm only adding who people are saying.

 

[Nzap]

Still Bourque.

Add Klemm please.

 

[katfude]

I see bourque, i vote bourque

 

[ASmileyFace]

I don't understand why - if we are going strictly based on Avalanche careers - Tyson Barrie isn't an option but bottom sixers who spent less overall time here like Yelle and Hinote, and the ultimate 4th liner McLeod are.

You are vastly underrating Yelle's contributions to those cup winning teams imo. Dude was a PK stud.

 

[Caser]

Drury, add Gusarov.

 

[sethro109]

Add Liles.

 

[Bonzai12]

I see Bourque I vote Bourque

Add Gusarov

 

[famicommander]

I don't understand why - if we are going strictly based on Avalanche careers - Tyson Barrie isn't an option but bottom sixers who spent less overall time here like Yelle and Hinote, and the ultimate 4th liner McLeod are.

Avs regular season games played for each guy you mentioned
McLeod - 659 (0 Stanley Cups)
Yelle - 516 (2 Stanley Cups)
Barrie - 484 (0 Stanley Cups)
Hinote - 353 (1 Stanley Cup)

 

[GeoRox89]

Voting to add whichever of Klemm or Gusarov gets the most support

Edit: Just waiting for more vote splitting among the 90s/00s Cup winners voters to get Duchene in ahead of where he would be if we could all agree on an order

 

[famicommander]

Varly is bafflingly high on this list for me.

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Varly is bafflingly high on this list for me.

Or is Craig Anderson extremely under-rated?

 

[GeoRox89]

Varly is bafflingly high on this list for me.

Deadmarsh and Ozo did some intense vote splitting so the younglings backing Varly snuck him in there

 

[McMetal]

I think Bourque for me here. He may have had a short Avs career, but he was still a damn good player even at that age, and he was part of probably the greatest single moment in Avs history in 2001. That should boost him a lot higher than your average rental guy.

Add Barrie, he spent all of his best offensive years here.

 

[famicommander]

Deadmarsh and Ozo did some intense vote splitting so the younglings backing Varly snuck him in there

Damn kids. We oughta send Chris Simon, Scott Parker, and Cody McLeod after them to teach 'em some respeck.

 

[sethro109]

Varly is bafflingly high on this list for me.

Give Varly the defenses of any of the cup teams and we'd have more cups. Varly was fantastic for us. Blaming him for not have any cups is crazy.

 

[UncleRisto]

Blaming him for not have any cups is crazy.

It is, but then again he doesn't have any.

 

[Heyduke]

JML

 

[Bonzai12]

 

[Chileiceman]

Ive been voting for Stastny for what feels like years. Yall on crack.

Actially he should have been on there after either Lemieux or Kamensky. I'd have him above Varly, Deadmarsh and Ozolinsh. But that's the beauty of the poll, we all just use our own criteria.