As the Colorado Avalanche head into the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, it’s almost certain: they’re going to have to take a goaltender, and preferably not an absolute flyer of a pick.
The team has done a semi-decent job of, at the very least, making an effort at drafting goaltenders in the last handful of seasons.
Despite that, they’ve done an abysmal job at actually putting in the work to select goaltenders that have more than a slight prayer at panning out.
In the four seasons that Patrick Roy was at the helm as head coach and VP of hockey operations, they took a goaltender at every draft but the 2015 class, starting with Spencer Martin in 2013 and selecting Swedish option Adam Werner in 2016 before Roy finally departed later that summer.