The Colorado Avalanche are having a season for the ages. The 2025 portion of the 2025-26 season has been nothing short of amazing. But with the 2026 portion of the season looming, three things stand out as worth getting hyped about.
So, let’s take a look at three reasons to get hyped about the Colorado Avalanche in 2026.
Setting single-record for most points
2026 promises to lead the Avalanche to a new milestone. The Avs are on pace to blow past their single-season record for points. The current mark was set in 2021-22 with 119. Colorado is currently on pace for a shade under 139. That would be a 20-point improvement over the previous mark.
That season, the Avalanche set a club record for wins with 56. The team currently has 27 and is on track to blow past 60.
Yes, it’s certainly ambitious. But it’s a mark within reach. The Avalanche are pretty much halfway to the previous record. Incidentally, that 2021-22 season was the last time Colorado won the Stanley Cup. So, there’s some added incentive there.
Fewest goals against in Avalanche history
For all of the firepower on the Avalanche, the team has a shot at setting another team short. In 2001-02, the Avs set a new mark for the fewest goals allowed with 169. Thus far, Colorado has surrendered 76. That pace is on for 176, just slightly more than the club record.
So, you would have to think that a couple of shutouts here and there could bring the total down below the club record. That 2001-02 season, Patrick Roy led the club with nine shutouts. The team had 11 total.
With the way Scott Wedgewood and MacKenzie Blackwood are playing, there’s certainly a shot there for a new mark. Combined, they have four at the moment. But there’s no reason to think they can’t pull off another seven shutouts between them in the second half of the season.
All-time single-season points mark
While setting a club record for points in a season would be amazing, the Avalanche also have an opportunity to set a record for most points ever in a single season. The current mark is held by the 2022-23 Boston Bruins, who won 65 games and racked up 135 points. That mark beat the 1976-77 Montreal Canadiens, a powerhouse that got 132 points.
You would have to go back to the 1995-96 Detroit Red Wings, who got 131 points, a team that made a more reasonable comparison to the Bruins of two seasons ago.
This Avalanche team is on pace for about 62 wins. But when coupled with the loser points, the Avalanche could take the all-time points mark by about four to five points.
Setting the record would be an amazing accomplishment to cap off what’s been nothing short of a remarkable season.