Elliotte Friedman: "You know, it's interesting about Colorado. I was talking to someone about them and there's all this noise around Necas now all of a sudden, and someone said to me, if you look at Colorado's situation, depending on what happens with Drouin, and that's - I'm not really sure what is going to happen there - they really only have one or two players to sign. They don't have a lot of cap room, but they've gotta sign Sam Malinski, who's a very solid, young defenseman. But other than that, they don't have a lot of business they necessarily have to do. So, you know, I know people are looking at their roster and saying 'they gotta clear space,' I don't know that Colorado feels that way. I think they kind of look at it like - you know, there are a lot of rumors about Charlie Coyle. It sounds to me like that's a lot of teams looking at Colorado's roster and saying, 'well, they have to do something.' I could see the Avalanche saying, 'nah, we're good like this. Can never have too many centers.' The one thing I've heard: they traded for Lindgren, who's probably gonna go to market. I've heard they wouldn't mind another defenseman with a bit of jam or edge to them, but I've heard they're not - just because other people may look at them and say, 'they're too tight to the cap, they gotta make a move,' I'm not convinced they think that."

Kyle Bukauskas: "No, well, especially how they started last year with all of the injuries, but now teams are gonna try to tell them, 'look, you can't go into this season with all those players.' Yeah, no, I'll take that over the alternative, thank you."

Elliotte Friedman: "I'm not sure - again, it's always one of those situations where I could be proven to be wrong, but I don't think Colorado's convinced they have to do anything. They like how this looks on paper."