The Avalanche coaching search was continuing over the weekend, with Colorado and general manager Joe Sakic seeking a “teacher”-type who can nurture the franchise’s younger players and get the most out of the much-cited and much-challenged “core.”
Brad Larsen, the former Avalanche winger who now is an assistant under John Tortorella at Columbus, also is in the mix, along with two current AHL head coaches — Jared Bednar of the Cleveland Monsters and Travis Green of the Utica Comets — plus New York Rangers associate coach Scott Arniel and Washington Capitals assistant Lane Lambert.
Larsen previously has been an AHL head coach, with the Springfield Falcons.