The Colorado Avalanche’s fourth line is never stable. Granted, none of the team’s lines is ever stable, not even the top line. However, the fourth line tends to be a catchall of players trying to make the team and others who are in Jared Bednar’s doghouse.
This upcoming season, we have some players who legitimately are fourth-line style guys. Likewise, there are a plethora of players who might be trying to make the team or work their ways higher up the totem pole. Finally, we’ll consider some of Bednar’s favorite whipping boys.
So far, we’ve explored this topic in three posts:
I’ve come up with a tentative top-nine:
Landeskog-MacKinnon-Rantanen
Jost-Kadri-Burakovsky
Wilson-Compher-Donskoi
Some of those players in the middle six could potentially fall to the fourth line, so we’ll keep them in consideration.