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Who are the top Colorado Avalanche of all time? Here is our top 10 countdown:
10. Alex Tanguay: perhaps best-known for scoring the game-winning goal in Game 7 of the 2001 Stanley Cup Finals, Tanguay ultimately played close to a decade across two stints with the Avalanche, racking up nearly 500 points with the franchise.
9. Gabriel Landeskog: named captain of the Avalanche at age 19 (the youngest in NHL history at the time), Landeskog started off his career with the Calder Trophy and has spent a decade plus with Colorado and tallied 500+ career points while leading the team to a Stanley Cup.
8. Milan Hejduk: the Richard Trophy winner in 2002-2003 with a career-high 50 goals, Hejduk was one of the league’s elite goal-scorers of the early 2000s, ultimately tallying 375 goals and 805 points in his 14-year NHL career with the Avalanche.
7. Adam Foote: the successor to Joe Sakic as Avalanche captain, Foote was a shutdown stay-at-home defenseman who played nearly his entire 19-year NHL career with the franchise and was an integral part of the two Stanley Cup-winning teams.
6. Nathan MacKinnon: the #1 overall pick in 2013, MacKinnon won the Calder Trophy as a rookie and has blossomed into one of the league’s top offensive players, finishing as Hart Trophy runner-up 2x while averaging a point-per-game during his time with Colorado and leading the team to a Stanley Cup.
5. Michel Goulet: in a decade-plus with Quebec, Goulet posted seven consecutive 40-goal seasons (including four straight 50-goal seasons) and four 100-point seasons for nearly 1,000 points in a Nordiques uniform.
4. Peter Stastny: after defecting from his native Czechoslovakia and becoming the first rookie with 100+ points in a season in 1980-1981, Stastny made six All-Star Games and posted seven 100+ point seasons with the Nordiques en route to being the second-highest scoring player of the 1980s with over 1,000 points (behind only Wayne Gretzky).
3. Peter Forsberg: the Calder Trophy winner in 1994-1995, Forsberg was electrifying when healthy, averaging well over a point-per-game and leading the team to two Stanley Cups while taking home both the Hart and Ross Trophies in 2002-2003.
2. Patrick Roy: after coming over from the Montreal Canadiens, Roy spent seven-and-half seasons in Colorado and set a franchise record for wins (262) on seven straight 30+ win seasons; he also won a Jennings Trophy, finished top-10 for the Vezina Trophy every year, and led the team to a pair of Stanley Cups with a Conn Smythe in 2000-2001.
1. Joe Sakic: the heart and soul of the Avalanche (and predecessor Quebec Nordiques) for nearly two decades, Sakic accumulated 1,641 career points during his Hall of Fame career; in addition to leading the Avalanche to a Stanley Cup in their inaugural season (winning Conn Smythe honors in the process), he also won a Hart/Pearson/Lady Byng trifecta in 2000-2001 in guiding the team to its second Cup.
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Note: This list includes players who played for the Quebec Nordiques.
Note: All statistics as of time of publication.
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