The Colorado Avalanche invited a pretty interesting group of players to training camp on tryout contracts this season.
Joel Kiviranta had the biggest night of his NHL career at the Avs’ expense in the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs with Dallas. Peter Holland was retired last season, and has already had a life-changing experience during camp.
Then there is Brandon Kozun, who can match Holland for the most interesting journey to this point of the bunch.
Kozun, who was born in Los Angeles and lives in Calgary in the offseason, has not played for a team on North American soil since 2014-15, when he and Holland were teammates in the Toronto organization.