Mile High Hockey · Jun 11, 2018
Off-season Flurries: Eagles leave ECHL without a 2018 defending champ
The Colorado Eagles are moving to the AHL this upcoming season, doing what likely needed to be done a while ago for the Avalanche.
Their prospects will be closer at hand and recalls will be easier, with coaching staff just an hour’s drive down the road in Denver and collaboration between the staff members at each level easy to conduct in person.
Before they made this move, the Avalanche were one of the league’s last remaining holdouts that hadn’t managed to secure this kind of situation.