Avalanche prospects at the NCAA tournament

Photo by Richard T Gagnon/Getty ImagesWith a severely depleted prospect pool, the Colorado Avalanche still had good presence at the 2025 NCAA Tournament with four teams and players participating in the opening round of 16 teams. Here are the results of those performances.

Maine Black Bears

It was a much shorter than anticipated tournament for the Black Bears who arrived on the heels of a Hockey East championship. Maine had an incredible season but were just too inexperienced on the big stage and lost their opening game of the NCAA tournament 5-1 to Penn State. It appeared power forward Taylor Makar scored Maine’s lone goal and the puck bounced around the net front but ultimately the score was…