The Colorado Avalanche have a lot of contracts coming to their end this offseason. Several of them are entering restricted free agent status, which means the team must make the player a qualifying offer.
Several of those contracts are players the Avs have drafted and signed to entry-level contracts, which are now coming to the end. One of the players in that situation is AJ Greer.
Colorado drafted Greer with their first pick of the second round, the #39 selection. Colorado initially had the #31 pick as part of the Ryan O’Reilly trade. However, they traded down to the #39 pick so they could also get back their 2016 second rounder (Cam Morrison) and 2017 sixth-rounder (Denis Smironov).