A long off-season with broad sweeping changes comes to a close today when the beloved Rampage hit the ice at Northwoods Ice Center for their first practice in San Antonio. As of right now, Reid Petryk, Sam Henley and Assistant Coach Randy Ladouceur are the only folks returning that spent the entire season with the Rampage, although there are quite a few that were around for parts of last year and a couple cuts yet to be made from the Avalanche.
After the end of last season the Avs took a long look at their minor league and development system and didn’t like what they saw.