With the NHL trade deadline a week away, teams are beginning to finalize their plans for the remainder of the season as well as the summer. Thanks to a terrible slide down the standings that started at the beginning of December, the Colorado Avalanche have found themselves shifting from a team looking towards the playoffs to one that is going to be a seller at the deadline.
The team has a few pending free agents that could be sold off before February 25th, but Colorado isn’t going to get much in return for guys like Colin Wilson, Mark Barberio, or Patrik Nemeth.