The Colorado Avalanche have five upcoming restricted free agents who all played regularly for the team last season. Three of them — Mikhail Grigorenko, Andreas Martinsen and Calvin Pickard — didn’t have huge roles for the Avs.
Two of the RFAs were integral to what success the Avalanche had last season — Nathan MacKinnon and Tyson Barrie. For some reason, though, only one of those players is the target of trade rumors — and it’s not the first-overall, Calder Trophy-winning, more glittery of those two.