Continuing to grind away at all their offseason loose ends, the Colorado Avalanche inked another one of their depth players in center Mikhail Maltsev to a one-year contract for the upcoming 2022-23 season.
Maltsev spent most of his season with the Colorado Eagles where he was a top player scoring 48 points in 56 games and another six points in nine playoff contests. He was up with the Avalanche for 18 games in the first half of the season but didn’t produce any points in a fourth-line role.
After playing the majority of the shortened 2020-21 season with the New Jersey Devils and the subsequent exchange in the Ryan Graves trade the was perhaps thought Maltsev would become a fixture on the Avalanche roster.