If you assume Semyon Varlamov will remain healthy — and that’s been a bad assumption for the last three years — the Avalanche appears to have enough organizational goaltending depth to not worry about the position. There’s Varlamov and newly signed free agent Phillip Grubauer — the 2018 Stanley Cup champion from the Washington Capitals — with the Avs. And there’s three other guys looking to occupy the two spots with the Colorado Eagles of the American Hockey League and one with the Utah Grizzlies of the ECHL.
The minor-league contenders with big-league dreams: Spencer Martin, the Avs’ 2013 draft pick; Joe Cannata, who helped the Eagles win their second straight ECHL championship last spring before the franchise moved to the AHL; and Pavel Francouz, the Czech Republic-born free-agent acquisition from the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia.