https://coloradohockeynow.com/2025/08/06/deens-daily-two-years-since-karlsson-trade-should-avs-start-season-without-necas-extension/ The home of Aarif Deen and the best coverage of the Colorado Avalanche Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://coloradohockeynow.com/2025/08/06/deens-daily-two-years-since-karlsson-trade-should-avs-start-season-without-necas-extension/#comment-80957 Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:27:03 +0000 https://coloradohockeynow.com/?p=17733#comment-80957 It always makes me laugh when draft evaluators say a team had a great draft (when Ottawa had 3 first round picks) and another team had a bad draft because they had few picks, and they were all later rounds (like the Avs). Maybe the Avs are a bad example because their drafting has for the most part been historically terrible but the moral of the story is don’t screw up the 1st round especially in Ottawa’s case when they had the 3rd, 5th and 28th picks in 2020

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