Colorado Avalanche: Getting to Know Alex Beaucage

Colorado Avalanche draftee Alex Beaucage will return to his major juniors team. However, he shows some potential to eventually make the team.

The Colorado Avalanche used their second pick of the third round, the #78 overall, to select a good-sized winger. Said winger is youngster Alex Beaucage.

I say youngster because this particular draft prospect is only 17 — he’ll turn 18 next week. The 6-foot-2, 192-pound teen hails from Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

Well, rather, he was born there. In a story a little similar to Andre Burokovsky’s, Beaucage spent the first seven years of his life in Germany as his father, Marc Beaucage, was playing hockey in the top German league. He studied English and…