The next player Colorado drafted was Red Deer Rebels (WHL) forward Beckett Hamilton, whom Pryor called a high-energy speed player.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe like the pace of play that he plays at,\u201d Pryor\u00a0said about\u00a0Hamilton. \u201cAnd the drive that he plays with…Beckett\u2019s north-south game is what was really attractive for us.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Additionally, the Avalanche made a mid-draft trade, acquiring forward Fabian Lysell from the Boston Bruins for Ivan Ivan.<\/p>\n
With the first of its two fifth-round picks, the Avs\u00a0traded up to select\u00a0defenseman Cole\u00a0Tuminaro from the USHL\u2019s Chicago Steel. Pryor gave a lot of credit to Avalanche Head College Scout\/Amateur Scout Mike Battaglia, who has had high praise for Tuminaro since September.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery time I talked to Mike, he always mentioned Cole somehow,\u201d Pryor said. \u201cWe could\u2019ve been talking about something totally different, but he would keep coming back to Cole…We just felt with Mike\u2019s level of excitement, like I said, the whole season, from his first viewing of Cole of the year, that this is a guy that we wanted to target and move up and try and get.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The two goaltenders the Avs selected were Tobias Tvrznik from the Wenatchee Wild (WHL) and Alexandre Raymond from the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies (QMJHL), both of whom the Avs\u2019 goalie department, led by Director of Goaltending Evaluation\/Special Projects Craig Billington, were high on.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201c[Billington] was super ecstatic to get Tobias, and then to get Alexandre late in the Draft,\u201d Pryor said. \u201cBoth guys they were higher on than where we got them, which makes you feel good. I\u00a0gotta\u00a0give credit to Craig.\u00a0Craig puts a lot of work into it with his goalie department and [Avalanche Goaltender Scout] Pavel Francouz and Rick Wamsley. They spend a lot of time on that, and\u00a0they\u2019ve\u00a0got my full trust and the organization\u2019s full trust\u00a0when it comes to evaluating the goalies, and they were super excited.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Several of the\u00a0players\u00a0Colorado\u2019s\u00a0prospects, including some of the players it drafted on Saturday, will\u00a0be in attendance at\u00a0Avalanche Development Camp, which begins its open-to-the-public sessions on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The next player Colorado drafted was Red Deer Rebels (WHL) forward Beckett Hamilton, whom Pryor called a high-energy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":765222,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-765221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765221","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=765221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/765221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/765222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=765221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=765221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=765221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}