DENVER (KDVR) — The Colorado Avalanche aren’t settled but.
Forward of Friday’s NHL commerce deadline, Normal Supervisor Chris MacFarland continues to tweak together with his roster.
Modify, putter, tinker. Name it what you need, MacFarland is not settled on the present state of the Avs. And that is a very good factor for a group that has desires of hoisting the Stanley Cup this summer season.
And he is not completed but.
This weekend Colorado acquired defenseman Ryan Lindgren and ahead Jimmy Vesey from the New York Rangers. Essential items that may add depth to the roster, Darren McKee from Altitude Sports activities Radio advised ‘Colorado Sports activities Night time.’
“They want a man within the again line who’s going to tough individuals up,” stated McKee. “I truly just like the commerce.”
And the hopes of gaining their Captain Gabe Landeskog again for the stretch run? Nicely, that is perhaps out of MacFarland’s management.
“I don’t foresee within the subsequent day or two, or week or two right here,” MacFarland stated. “I believe you guys can work out the place that is type of going.”
Landeskog hasn’t performed because the Avs received the Cup nearly three years in the past. The restoration on his proper knee has been difficult and sluggish to say the least.
“I really feel horrible for Gabe,” defined McKee. “In some unspecified time in the future actuality has to set in, and I believe the Avalanche has been unbelievably truthful in giving Landeskog each likelihood. However it does really feel like after three years, it is a bummer, man. I believe we have all type of identified it at the back of our minds. We simply have not stated it out loud.”
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