The Colorado Avalanche’s season is done. As happens every year, some of the players leave to represent their countries at the IIHF Worlds Championship.
It’s bittersweet for us Avs fans. We get a little more hockey from some of our players, but it also means Colorado didn’t make a deep playoff run. Of course, we can console ourselves this year with the fact that the Avalanche did, at least, make the playoffs.
Three players are representing their countries this year. And additional three were invited but declined due to injuries.
The three representing:
- Tyson Jost, Canada
- Sven Andrighetto, Switzerland
- Mikko Rantanen, Finland
The three who declined:
- Gabriel Landeskog, Sweden
- Patrik Nemeth, Sweden
- Nikita Zadorov, Russia
What’s noteworthy about those two lists is that Rantanen is on the first, not the second.