The newest Colorado Avalanche forward, Sven Andrighetto, is making an impact for the team. He has a goal and two assists in the last three games.
The newest new guy for the Colorado Avalanche is right wing Sven Andrighetto. The Avs sent forward Andreas Martinsen to the Montreal Canadiens for Andrighetto.
Sven is in the new style of forwards the Avalanche have been favoring recently — small, speedy and with fine-tuned skills. The 5-foot-10, 188-pound Ghetto isn’t an elite forward, but he does possess some scoring creativity.
And he’s already producing for Colorado. Andrighetto has played just four games for the Avalanche, and he’s already accrued a goal and two assists.
His first assist came in his second-ever game for the Colorado Avalanche came during a 3-1 win over the Carolina Hurricanes.
His creativity and hockey sense came into focus as he drove down the boards and turned back to find Tyson Barrie jumping into the play:
Tyson did an excellent job of sealing the deal.
Sven Andrighetto then earned another assist in his very next game, this one a 3-2 win over the downward spiraling New Jersey Devils.
Four minutes into the third period, with the Avalanche and Devils tied at one apiece, Andrighetto intercepted the puck in the offensive zone. He held onto it just long enough to settle it. He then spied Rene Bourque heading for the slot:
It’s so nice to see some good passing in a game. And to see Bourque actually shoot the puck. Good things happen when you go to the net and shoot the puck.
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Well, those two games heralded a little Colorado Avalanche winning streak. Unfortunately, all good things must come to an end, and that end came against the red-hot Senators.
That said, it was in the loss against the Senators that Sven Andrighetto got his first goal for the Colorado Avalanche.
The goal came late in the third period — in the last minutes, specifically, with Colorado on a power play. In this case, it was Andrighetto who got to be the beneficiary of a good pass, this one from Joe Colborne.
Like I said earlier, good things happen when you drive the net. Ghetto did just that. So he was in a good position to make use of the puck the Colborne dished to him:
What I love about this play is that Sven is just right in the proper place to make a good play.
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His teammates are happy for him, even though the goal means little that late in the game.
The 23-year-old Andrighetto is a restricted free agent after this season. As Ross pointed out in a previous post, he’s forcing the Colorado Avalanche to face a hard decision. Because of their defenseman situation, they can only protect four forwards in the expansion draft, and Nathan MacKinnon, Matt Duchene and Gabriel Landeskog are taking up three of those spots.
Thus far, Sven Andrighetto is making a strong case for being that fourth forward.