Colorado Avalanche: Top 5 Goalies at the 2018 Draft
The Colorado Avalanche need to improve their goal tending depth, which they may do at the 2018 NHL Draft. Here are the top five options.
The Colorado Avalanche have a problem with goal tending depth. In fact, it’s verging on a crisis if they don’t start increasing the depth. One way they can do that is with the 2018 NHL Draft.
In fact, I fully expect the Avalanche to draft a goalie this season. They signed an undrafted goalie in 28-year-old Pavel Francouz. It sounds like they’re in negotiations to bring Jonathan Bernier back next season. I also expect they’ll sign a goalie prospect, either their own or an AHL player from another team.
But I think it’s all going to start with this year’s draft. The Colorado Avalanche need to bolster their goalie depth — only two net minders signed (Francouz and starter Semyon Varlamov) — and a few prospects who don’t feel like the future of the team.
Are any of the below goalies the future of the team? It’s hard to say. None of them are projected to go in the first round. However, goalies who go first-overall like Marc-Andre Fleury, or even in the first round, are very rare.
In fact, one of the best goalies to ever play the game went in the third round. In 1984. 51st overall. You can look up who with that information. Or you can just know I’m talking about Patrick Roy.
Anyway, I would never say we can draft the next Roy in this or any year. However, Let’s look at the top five goalies from this year’s pool — you never know when the next Varly might be up for grabs in a draft.
A quick reminder — the Colorado Avalanche have the following picks:
- #16
- #47
- #58 (from Nashville)
- #78
- #109
- #140
- #171
- #202