It certainly won’t be like last year.
The upcoming 2025 NHL draft won’t compare to the spectacular experience The Sphere provided in Las Vegas and the Colorado Avalanche won’t approach the same universe of a nine-pick draft class they amassed in 2024. Instead, the NHL is trying out a forecasted underwhelming “decentralized” draft and currently the Avalanche have just two draft selections starting in the fourth round.
We know Colorado has been handing out draft picks like Halloween candy for years but it’s often lost how far the ledger goes back. Colorado’s own second rounder was spent on Lars Eller in 2023, their first rounder went to get rid of Ryan Johansen in 2024 and Yakov Trenin was rented for their third rounder the same year.