The Colorado Avalanche are known for their elite speed and skill, but questions arise about whether they can compensate for a relatively light roster. With the team's average weight ranking at the lower end of the league, coach Jared Bednar emphasizes playing hard and bigger than size.
,Cale Makar of the Colorado Avalanche celebrates scoring a goal against the Chicago Blackhawks with teammates Mikko Rantanen , Artturi Lehkonen , Nathan MacKinnon and Devon Toews during the second period at Ball Arena in Denver on Monday, March 4, 2024.
“We have weight in our top six. I don’t know if other teams have bigger ‘D’ and that kind of inflates it a little bit maybe.” Size inevitably becomes a talking point for every highly-skilled team in the NHL. Two things can be true at the same time: 1) the league has changed, and it has allowed smaller, skilled players to thrive with more regularity, and 2) every team still craves bigger, skilled players.
The 2022 Avalanche playoff roster averaged 198.67 pounds. Players like Erik Johnson, Jack Johnson, Andre Burakovsky and Nico Sturm, all at 209 pounds or more, are no longer around. “They had some obviously big guys, but they’re big guys that know how to hold on to the puck,” Manson said. “It’s not just, ‘Oh, they’re just big guys.’ They know how to lean on pucks and they had big ‘D.’ They were kind of built for that game.
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