With less than two weeks to go until the 2025-26 NHL regular season opening night on October 7th, the Colorado Avalanche needed to start making transactions to eventually get down to their roster of 23
(or fewer) players.
On an off-day following the two split-squad games against Utah, the organization did just that assigning a trio of junior players back to their respective clubs. Unfortunately, both Max Curran and Linus Funck were injured during the rookie tournament and did not participate in training camp. Christian Humphreys had a good showing at his first camp and played in the game at Magness Arena but it’s time for him to join the OHL season already in progress.
After a week of several days off and light skates the Avalanche continued with another small cut ahead of tonight’s third preseason game. A trio of defensemen in Saige Weinstein, Hank Kempf and Connor Kelley were reassigned to the Colorado Eagles camp which will begin next week.
With the six cuts the roster now stands at 48 players with several on the shelf due to injury as some more cuts are sure to follow in the coming week as we get closer to opening night.
