Morning Flurries: Cal Ritchie signs contract with Colorado

Your daily dose of Avalanche news, along with other interesting storylines across the NHL.

The wait is finally over as the Colorado Avalanche have signed their top prospect Calum Ritchie to a three-year Entry Level Contract. Ritchie had a phenomenal 2023-24 season where he scored 80 points in 50 games and led his team to the OHL finals. A reward for his hard work and commitment from the organization was very much deserved.

Ritchie himself had indicated he’d be fighting for a contract this fall at training camp but the Avalanche made a wise decision to get the 19-year old center locked into a contract before hopefully getting an opportunity to make the team in the coming months after a big summer of training.

Elsewhere in the Avalanche universe, part two of a video interview with Val Nichushkin was posed and there he explained a bit of what happened last April from his perspective. This was filmed several months ago. The translation in English is provided in the Colorado Hockey Now article.

A fun video was also just released in which Nathan MacKinnon and Mikko Rantanen joined Pierre-Edouard Bellemare and his wife Hannah as she cooked dinner for them.