Colorado Avalanche Roundtable on 2017 NHL Draft: #4 Pick
The Colorado Avalanche have seven picks in the 2017 NHL Draft, including the fourth-overall. MHS writers past and present weigh in on who they think the team picks in the first round.
The Expansion Draft is in full swing for the Colorado Avalanche. Of course for the Avs, all that really means is Las Vegas Golden Knights general manager George McPhee is looking over their list of unprotected players to choose one.
Meanwhile, Avalanche team personnel are going over the 2017 NHL Draft class to see who they’re going to pick. The first round of the draft takes place on June 23 at 4:00 pm MT, coverage on NBC Sports Network. Coverage of the other six rounds begins at 7 am MT on Saturday, June 24, also on NBC Sports Network.
The Colorado Avalanche have the following picks:
#4
#32
#94
#114
#125
#156
#187
They don’t have a third round pick because they traded it to New Jersey for defenseman Eric Gelinas. They have an additional fourth round pick which they acquired in the trade that took Nick Holden to the New York Rangers.
The first round pick, as we well know by now, is the #4 selection. Colorado lost the Draft Lottery and so dropped all the way to that pick.
In any case, there are some very good players who will be available at fourth-overall. Indeed, the players who go between #3 to about #10 are all going to be about the same level of player. So it mostly depends on what each team decides it needs.
Here at Mile High Stilcking, we’ve had a lot of draft coverage. As we near the big moment itself, though, some MHS writers past and present got together (virtually) to debate who the Avs should take with their #4 pick.
You’ll be surprised to know we did not come to a consensus.