Colorado Avalanche: Who Might Comprise the Defensive Core?

As we near the Colorado Avalanche preseason, let’s look at the likely candidates for the core of the team’s defense.

The Colorado Avalanche preseason is still more than a month away — the first preseason game is September 18. Before that will come training camp and rookie camp. And before that is the Rookie Faceoff.

So, in reality, we only have until September 8, which is just about three weeks away until we have some real hockey. In my world, that’s not too early to start fretting about lines and defensive pairings.

Or, at least, considering who might actually make the team on opening night.

Naturally, for some players making opening night depends on how they show in training camp and the…