Colorado Avalanche: Cody Goloubef Must Go

Colorado Avalanche defenseman Cody Goloubef is not good enough to augment the team’s defense, especially when he costs them games.

Every year it seems the Colorado Avalanche must have a traffic cone they dress up in defenseman gear. Sometimes these journeymen pan out, as Andre Benoit did in the golden Why Not Us season, 2013-14. Sometimes they become the bane of Avs fans’ existence, as Nate Guenin eventually did.

Well, Benoit and Guenin are long gone, the Avalanche bought out Brad Stuart, and even Nick Holden has been traded. (Though I wouldn’t have put him in that category.) Yet the team has persisted in its ways.

And this year, the AHL-level defenseman nonetheless getting NHL time is Cody…