Avalanche risers and fallers: Mixed bag with top prospects, Alex Newhook rebounds from ‘slow start’ and more
New York TimesIn the Avalanche-Wild preseason contest Monday, Minnesota went with a lineup full of NHL players, including captain Jared Spurgeon and star Kirill Kaprizov. … Tonight was a game that we were just going to play a lot of those guys we’ve got to make decisions on and mix in just a couple of veterans.” The Colorado Eagles, the Avalanche’s AHL affiliate, start training camp this week, and Avs general manager Joe Sakic has already made cuts this week. “From rookie camp through this camp, he’s getting better now, but he’s had a slow start to the camp for me.” Considering Newhook played in most of the Avalanche’s playoff games in 2021, that’s likely not the impression he wanted to make in his first NHL training camp. “A lot of great assets.” Ranta wasn’t a first-round pick like some of the Avalanche’s top prospects, going in the third round in 2018, but if he continues to play the way he did in the first game against Minnesota, he’ll have a legitimate chance of breaking camp with the NHL club. “I feel like it put me a step ahead.” Bednar was pleased with Foudy’s showing at development camp, but he hasn’t seen much from the 19-year-old since the beginning of the main training camp.
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