Confirmed with Link: Klippenstein Leaving Avs July 1st

[S E P H]

Nobody posted this as news? He was not renewed by the Avs, per TMV, who also says Avs might internally promote Scott Harris (who is responsible for the Devils cupboard).

Director Of Amateur Scouting Leaving Avalanche Organization

The Colorado Avalanche will soon have a new Director of Amateur Scouting. Wade Klippenstein, who has been with the organization since 2016 and was promoted to Director of Amateur Scouting back in 2021, is leaving on July 1 and joining Notre Dame Hounds Hockey as their Director of Hockey...

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[TruePowerSlave]

A shame walk nude around Denver for the entire amateur scouting department. Free tomatoes for those who attend.

 

[BobRossColton]

Are we hiring Dorion now?

 

[expatriatedtexan]

Question on Dorion....we all know we was to some degree hand-cuffed by his owner. But could he have been a good GM if given a second chance with a less intrusive boss? Or where the blunders all truly on him as well?

 

[Hasbro]

Question on Dorion....we all know we was to some degree hand-cuffed by his owner. But could he have been a good GM if given a second chance with a less intrusive boss? Or where the blunders all truly on him as well?

Nope.

 

[BaconNater]

Evan is always grinding its nice to have him around for the Avs!

Im intrigued by Scott Harris, too bad we probably won't hear or know anything until the draft because Avs!

 

[Alienblood]

What matters is the Avs didn't think that highly of his time as he wasn't even offered a contract

 

[UnkleKraker]

Can't get worse, right? Right?

 

[S E P H]

What matters is the Avs didn't think that highly of his time as he wasn't even offered a contract

Avs are most definitely taking the "trial and error" process with these Directors, which is pretty stupid IMHO. Takes a long time and doesn't guarantee any sort of success.

 

[henchman21]

The circumstance around this probably matters. As of now it looks like the Avs weren’t happy with his results. Which doesn’t send a good signal for the last two drafts.

 

[Tommy Shelby]

Can we please just hire someone with a proven track record to run our drafts? And fire all the more senior amateur scouts, since they clearly miss the mark every draft and don't see eye-to-eye

 

[McMetal]

Klippenstein's picks during his three seasons:

2021:

Oscar Olausson - 1st
Sean Behrens - 2nd
Andrei Buyalski - 3rd
Taylor Makar - 7th

2022:

Chris Romaine - 6th
Ivan Zhigalov - 7th

2023:

Calum Ritchie - 1st
Mikhail Gulyayev - 1st
Nikita Ishimnikov - 5th
Jeremy Hanzel - 6th
Maros Jedlicka - 7th

Looking at that list, it's kind of worse than I thought. It's not often that picks look as bad as Olausson, Ishimnikov, Zhigalov, and Buyalski do so quickly. I'll give a pass on Taylor Makar because that was clearly an org decision.

Certainly Behrens and Ritchie are looking promising as of right now, with Gulyayev as a wild card, but that's really not an inspiring list at all, especially with so little time having passed.

 

[hockeyfish]

Klippenstein's picks during his three seasons:

2021:

Oscar Olausson - 1st
Sean Behrens - 2nd
Andrei Buyalski - 3rd
Taylor Makar - 7th

2022:

Chris Romaine - 6th
Ivan Zhigalov - 7th

2023:

Calum Ritchie - 1st
Mikhail Gulyayev - 1st
Nikita Ishimnikov - 5th
Jeremy Hanzel - 6th
Maros Jedlicka - 7th

Looking at that list, it's kind of worse than I thought. It's not often that picks look as bad as Olausson, Ishimnikov, Zhigalov, and Buyalski do so quickly. I'll give a pass on Taylor Makar because that was clearly an org decision.

Certainly Behrens and Ritchie are looking promising as of right now, with Gulyayev as a wild card, but that's really not an inspiring list at all, especially with so little time having passed.

I don't want to make excuses, but he wasn't really in a great position to succeed. The 2021 draft was pretty much trowing darts after the very top of the class due to Covid. And I'm not sure what you should expect from a draft with only a 6th & 7th. The results looked much better when he had a full set of picks during a normal draft class in 2023.

 

[Alienblood]

The circumstance around this probably matters. As of now it looks like the Avs weren’t happy with his results. Which doesn’t send a good signal for the last two drafts.

precisely what I was thinking

 

[Ceremony]

Why don't we simply hire someone who's good at drafting?

 

[AvsFan2123]

Definitely sounds like we might have something in Scott Harris. Similar to when we poached MacFarland away from CBJ we have someone who will eventually run things one day.

 

[Chiarelli]

Why don't we simply hire someone who's good at drafting?

Shhhh they have a different plan....

 

[Pokecheque]

Interesting that he won't even be there for the draft even though he'll still be employed then.

On a side note, thank heavens we got a beat reporter willing to dig for this info, this wasn't even a blip on The Athletic's radar.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

Why don't we simply hire someone who's good at drafting?

That's playing on easy mode, clearly the Avs like to crank it up to hardcore difficulty only

 

[GirardSpinorama]

I don't want to make excuses, but he wasn't really in a great position to succeed. The 2021 draft was pretty much trowing darts after the very top of the class due to Covid. And I'm not sure what you should expect from a draft with only a 6th & 7th. The results looked much better when he had a full set of picks during a normal draft class in 2023.

But he was with the team for years before being the director.

 

[Pokecheque]

But he was with the team for years before being the director.

Yeah that's what I find strange about all this. By all indications he was being groomed for the role even before they gave Hepple the boot, and in just two years said "Nah."

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Good, get the f*** out.

 

[the_fan]

Can we trade a 1st round pick for Tampa’s amateur scout? Id do that in a heartbeat because the guy will just find a equally good 1st round player in later rounds

 

[Balthazar]

Question on Dorion....we all know we was to some degree hand-cuffed by his owner. But could he have been a good GM if given a second chance with a less intrusive boss? Or where the blunders all truly on him as well?

It's hard to tell how he'd do under a normal GM setup. He was wearing so many hats for Melnyk...he was doing the job of like 4 guys and he had to deal with the cheapest owner in the league + the reality of being in a small Canadian market. He was trying to build a good team and everything was stacked against him.

One thing he isn't good at is judging NHL goalies though.

 

[Pokecheque]

It's hard to tell how he'd do under a normal GM setup. He was wearing so many hats for Melnyk...he was doing the job of like 4 guys and he had to deal with the cheapest owner in the league + the reality of being in a small Canadian market. He was trying to build a good team and everything was stacked against him.

One thing he isn't good at is judging NHL goalies though.

I mean...how do we even know? The organization as a whole clearly just doesn't give a f*** about developing a goalie in-house. It's a total afterthought.