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Prospects · Colorado Avalanche · 2026-27 · updated November 9

Colorado Avalanche prospects

Every player in the Colorado Avalanche's system who still counts as a rookie, ranked by what he is likely to become: the odds he turns into an NHL regular, and how good the players most like him turned out to be. Draft position starts the estimate; what he does after the draft takes it over.

26thColorado Avalanche: pipeline rank among 32 organizations1 in the league top 100 · 36 prospects in the system
95+Blue chip85+High end70+Projectable45+Depth0+Long shot
#PlayerAgeDraftedThis seasonNHL oddsImpact oddsWAR if he sticksETAScoreWeek
1Egor ShilovC · QMJHL182026 · #4318 GP · 12-16-28▲1
2T.J. HughesR · NHL24Undrafted18 GP · 2-5-7▲55
3Beckett HamiltonC · WHL182026 · #7417 GP · 13-14-27▼2
4Will ZellersL · NCAA202024 · #769 GP · 3-5-8▼9
5Nikita PrishchepovC · AHL222024 · #21714 GP · 4-1-5▼25
6Shawn CarrierL · QMJHL192026 · #19513 GP · 7-9-16▲1
7Fabian LysellR · AHL232021 · #211 GP · 0-0-0▼13
8Christian HumphreysC · NCAA202024 · #21510 GP · 5-1-6▼46
9Nolan RoedC · NCAA202025 · #2149 GP · 3-5-8▲3
10Jake FisherC · NCAA212024 · #1219 GP · 2-1-3▼6
11Georgii MerkulovC · AHL25Undrafted70 GP · 24-37-61▼9
12Matthew DiMarsicoC · AHL22Undrafted14 GP · 2-2-4▼48
13Taylor MakarL · NHL252021 · #2202 GP · 0-0-0▲7
14Maros JedlickaC · AHL232023 · #21914 GP · 2-3-5▼5
15Cooper GayR · AHL24Undrafted12 GP · 0-1-1▼39

NHL odds are the chance he becomes a full-time NHL player — 200 games by age 26, or 100 by 27 for a goalie. Impact odds are the chance he becomes better than the typical regular at his position. WAR if he sticks is the middle outcome among his comparables who made it. The score is a percentile of the expected outcome across every prospect in the league, so forwards, defensemen and goalies sit on one scale. The rankings update every night. Week is the change in his league rank since October 29. Goalie projections are the least certain on the page: goaltending develops late and the history behind it is thin. How the rankings work