{"id":125676,"date":"2025-08-07T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125676\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T06:50:09","slug":"top-prospects-for-colorado-avalanche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/125676\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospects for Colorado Avalanche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How acquired:<\/strong> Selected with No. 31 pick in 2023 NHL Draft<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024-25 season:<\/strong> Omsk (KHL): 67 GP, 7-8-15<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche are excited by the progress the 20-year-old (5-foot-10, 172 pounds) has made entering his fourth season in the Kontinental Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you draft him young like that, at 18, you just wait for them to get stronger and sturdy over pucks, and we&#8217;ve seen that,&#8221; director of player development Brian Willsie said. &#8220;His skating, believe it or not, has kept improving. So that has made him a more dynamic player. Playing against men in that league the way he has and getting the ice he has is great for him and a great precursor to coming to North America. Watching him improve his puck game, his skating and inserting his strength has been great for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Willsie said there&#8217;s no timetable for Gulyayev to come to North America. The hope is he&#8217;ll be ready for the NHL when he does.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When the time is right to get him here and when he&#8217;s ready to come, then we&#8217;ll have him,\u201d he said. \u201cWe had him over for our development camp a couple years ago, so he&#8217;s familiar with us and our facilities and Colorado and everything we have going on. &#8230; But knowing he&#8217;s on a top-tier team in that league, and being well coached, is reassuring for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Projected NHL arrival:<\/strong> 2026-27<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How acquired: Selected with No. 31 pick in 2023 NHL Draft 2024-25 season: Omsk (KHL): 67 GP, 7-8-15&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-125676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114986157625554554","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}