Big day for Avalanche folks as the roster goes from 37 to 26 players in moves before and after practice. With forwards Patrick Bordealeu ($1 million), Marc-Andre Cliche ($700,000) and defensemen Zach Redmond ($750,000) and Maxim Noreau ($625,000) sent to San Antonio, the Avs have more than $3 million in guaranteed contracts with their American Hockey League affiliate.
No wonder they couldn’t afford to keep goalie Calvin Pickard in a backup role and send Reto Berra ($1.45M guaranteed) to San Antonio.
After practice Wednesday, Avalanche coach Patrick Roy discusses Calvin Pickard’s demotion to the AHL:
It looks like the Avs are on the cusp of signing forwards Jack Skille and Curtis Glencross from their PTOs and keeping rookie Mikko Rantanen, 18.