GirardSpinorama
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Confirmed with Link: Ross Colton Traded To Avs for #37 OA Pick In 2023 Draft, signs 4-year x $4M deal
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I absolutely love picking this guy up. He plays hard, he can chip in offensively, and everything about him screams great teammate. This was a case of Tampa having to get ship him out, not *wanting* to ship him out. I am cure Colton is glad it was to a team focused on win now.
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As it is we have zero third line so that would make sense - but I also like the idea some have suggested as him as a top six complimentary winger. I think that’s the best way to maximize Colton’s offensive potential…something of a fill-in role for Landeskog may be worth at least trying where he just goes hard and fast next to MacK, scoring some greasy goals and taking face-offs for the line when needed.
He gives us options for sure heading into the summer.
expatriatedtexan
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I get the sense that Colton is sort of a center version of Lehkonen from what some of y'all are saying. Is that close?
I don't know if Lehkky quite has that shot, or if RC has quite that defensive ability. But seems like they're somewhat similar.
Wood got 2.5 for six years, Colton a bit more? 3-3.5mil for 6 years?
That's my guess, if we go with a long-term contract.
Worth the risk imo. This could be a bargain.
That's my guess, if we go with a long-term contract.
Worth the risk imo. This could be a bargain.
This team’s needed a consistent presence at 3C since Yelle got packaged with Drury.
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Need to get this contract done to conclusively know where we stand and know what’s remaining for a 3RW and 6D.
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Foppa2118
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It's been such a merry go round of meh for 20 years.
Love that they finally committed to a guy who fits the 3C role well, rather than a smaller skill tweener that can't stick in the top six, which is mostly what they've done the last couple decades.
expatriatedtexan
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I'm trying to remember the last true 3rd line center we had that I liked for the role. Gratton, Nicolishin? Damn it's been a while.
Foppa2118
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I liked both Gratton and Niko. They were probably my favorites in the last 20 years, but neither got to play many games.
Not coincidentally they also fit the gritty two way mold of a true 3C, rather than trying to force a skill guy there.
All day at 3.5, give him 7 for all I care and front load it as much as possible.
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RockLobster
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This shouldn't be a surprise. If anything this just puts a deadline on a deal being made. What are teh Avs going to do in arbitration? You know, it's not like they can trash the player they just traded a 2nd rounder for
Ceremony
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".... and as you can see by our track record with 2nd round picks, the average NHL salary the player should be awarded is minus three million dollars."
It really isn't a big deal... happens a decent amount. I see at least two other players who moved teams and are on this list (Mitchell and Vilardi)
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Don't you think this means it's likely the Avs' will have to sign Colton to a bit higher number than they would like? The Avalanche won't walk away from what the Arbitrator gives Colton since we gave up a 2nd round pick for him!
LOFIN
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I mean it was the same thing with Toews. We traded for him, he filed for arbitration, deal got done before the hearing. No doubt this will be the case here as well.
Not really... his comparables are in the mid 3s and there can only be a 1 year deal out of arbitration. There is incentive for both parties to get some term here. My pure guess is the Avs want 4+ years, but don't want to go too high (over 4) and Colton if there is term wants a 4.5-4.75m especially after seeing Compher's deal. Which means to stay in the 3s it has to be a 2-3 year deal. If there is term, the Avs will have to pay up.
Belgican
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Hopefully they will find a deal pretty quickly, but that means they couldn’t find a deal already, and they are not quite on the same page yet. Now it looks like every decent NHL player with arbitration rights did use their rights indeed, looks to be a normal process.
