LOVELAND — The Avalanche’s American Hockey League affiliate,. the San Antonio Rampage, didn’t make the playoffs, either.
So as the season wound down, the Avalanche maneuvered to dispatch four of its young prospects to the ECHL Colorado Eagles, in the Loveland-based franchise’s first year of a working agreement with the NHL team from down the freeway.
More than six weeks after the organization’s NHL and AHL seasons ended, the four — defensemen Mason Geertsen and Sergei Boikov, plus forwards Shawn St-Amant and Julien Nantel — are playing major roles in the postseason as the Eagles chase after the ECHL’s Pat Kelly Cup.