The Avalanche have been largely out of the big talks so far this summer - and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
After a fun spring playoff run (hey, they even won a game!), they went to the 2018 Draft in Dallas and had themselves a weekend.
In addition to some fun, feel-good prospects in the later rounds, they got what may be one of the better mid-round players in Martin Kaut, the Czech-born forward who wants to be Patrice Bergeron-esque when he hits his prime. (And we got more from him on that at the draft, which you can read all about here.