With just over a week until the Colorado Avalanche rookies convene at Family Sports Center, the roster for the one-day camp practice and two rookie showcase games has been revealed.
It is a small group of 14 forwards, eight defensemen and three goalies scheduled to be part of the group, just enough to field a team for those two tournament games. Power forward Taylor Makar has been skating in a non-contact jersey and is unavailable
to participate on ice. Defenseman Sean Behrens seems ready to go after missing all last year with injury. It’s interesting two forwards who played pro with the Colorado Eagles all season in Chase Bradley and Nikita Prishchepov are expected to attend but the newly signed Zakhar Bardakov is not.
The brief rookie camp practice will be held at Family Sports Center at 10:30am on Thursday, September 11th in preparation for the two-game rookie tournament slate. Both games will be hosted by the South Suburban Sports Complex in Highlands Ranch. The Avalanche rookies play Utah on Friday, September 12th at 6 p.m. and then face Vegas on Sunday, September 14th at 1 p.m. Main camp kicks off back at Family Sports Center on Thursday, September 18th at 9 a.m. See you there!
