Colorado Avalanche: Considering the Top 5 Prospects

The Colorado Avalanche have a deep prospect pool that can yield NHL-level talent even as soon as this upcoming season.

The Colorado Avalanche have done a good job of building up their talent pool. They have a good crop of young players on the Colorado Eagles roster who are just vying for their chance at the big team.

For this post, I’m not going to consider any players who have NHL experience. That takes Cale Makar and Vladislav Kamenev out. Instead, I’m going to look just at players chomping at the bit.

Now, there’s no sense that these players have a real chance of making the roster out of training camp, though they might. (Except for number five, who will be away at college.) However, they…