Colorado Avalanche Draft Profile: Cerebral Marco Rossi

The Colorado Avalanche would love to pick a smart, speedy playmaker like Marco Rossi, but it’s highly unlikely to happen.

The Colorado Avalanche will have a low first-round pick in the 2020 NHL draft. So, they won’t be picking Marco Rossi.

When the Colorado Avalanche phone in their first-round draft selection — because that’s how it’s likely to be done — they are highly unlikely to be able to choose center Marco Rossi. He’s a player ranked to go between fourth-overall to eighth-overall. Colorado will likely pick at #29.

Marco Rossi is a center out of Feldkirch, Austria. He’s on the smaller size, at 5-foot-9, 179 pounds. He’s also one of the older players on the draft for the first time. He was…