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Opinion: Why losing Phillip Grubauer didn’t hurt the Colorado Avalanche

This past offseason, there were two main goals: sign captain Gabriel Landeskog and goaltender Philipp Grubauer to new contracts. They accomplished this for Landeskog keeping him here for eight more years, practically the rest of his career.

However, the same couldn’t be said for Grubauer.

It seemed more than likely that Grubauer would remain in net for the Avs, and continue to rise to glory with them. Grubauer and his agents went back and forth with the Avs on contract terms. The longer it held out, the more worried fans became. But it was hard to believe he would end up somewhere else.