The Colorado Avalanche were one of the teams that made a big splash at the 2015 NHL Entry Draft, starting the weekend with the long-awaited Ryan O’Reilly trade. It is hard to tell if there is a winner and a loser to this trade and it will all depend on how well prospects Mikhail Grigorenko, J.T. Compher, Nikita Zadorov and A.J. Greer will turn out.
However, the trade was not the only coup the Colorado Avalanche landed on draft weekend. They selected No. 1 European skater Mikko Rantanen from Finland and added some other very good prospects to the system.