The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the organization has signed forward Gavin Brindley to a two-year contract extension through the 2027-28 season.<\/p>\n
Brindley, 21, made Colorado\u2019s Opening Night roster and has registered five points (3g\/2a) in 14 games with the team. He enters tonight having scored in consecutive games, including his first career overtime marker on Nov. 9 at Vancouver. The tally made Brindley the seventh-youngest player in Avalanche\/Nordiques history (21 years, 35 days) to record an overtime goal for the franchise. The forward missed two games (Nov. 1-4) due to an upper-body injury but has dressed in every other Avalanche contest this season.<\/p>\n
A native of Fort Myers, Fla., Brindley was Columbus\u2019 second-round pick (34th overall) in the 2023 NHL Draft and signed his entry-level contract on April 15, 2024. He spent his first full pro season (2024-25) with the Cleveland Monsters of the American Hockey League, where he tallied 17 points (6g\/11a) in 52 games as an AHL rookie. Brindley went on to dress in four Calder Cup Playoff games for the Monsters (0g\/0a) that season.<\/p>\n
The 5-foot-9, 175-pound right wing made his NHL debut with Columbus on April 16, 2024 against Carolina after two seasons at the University of Michigan (2022-24) but did not find the scoresheet. Brindley\u2019s first career NHL goal and point came with the Avalanche on Oct. 11, 2025 vs. Dallas.<\/p>\n
Brindley finished his collegiate career with 91 points (37g\/54a) in 81 games at Michigan. As a sophomore in 2023-24, he recorded a team-leading 53 points (25g\/28a) in 40 contests en route to being named the Big Ten Player of the Year and being selected to the NCAA (West) First All-American Team and Big Ten First All-Star Team. Brindley captured the Big Ten Scoring Champion title with 29 points scored against conference opponents in 23 appearances that year.<\/p>\n
Internationally, Brindley won a gold medal with the United States at the 2024 IIHF World Junior Championship after finishing second on the team with 10 points (6g\/4a) in seven outings. He also won bronze with Team USA at the 2023 IIHF World Junior Championship and silver at the 2022 IIHF Under-18 World Championship. The right-shot forward also represented his country at the 2024 IIHF Men\u2019s World Championship.<\/p>\n
Prior to enrolling at Michigan, Brindley played two seasons for the Tri-City Storm of the USHL from 2020-22. He finished with 64 points (23g\/41a) in 102 total contests and was named to the 2020-21 USHL All-Rookie Second Team during his first campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced today that the organization has signed forward Gavin Brindley to a two-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}