REPORT: Annunen Signing Multi-Year Extension With Avalanche

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3. Good for Juice. Sounds like Chris and Joe knew Frankie would retire after this contract and felt ready to pass the torch onto Justus. Says a lot that they’re willing to trust him as the primary backup heading into the playoffs on the back of MacKinnon’s outstanding season. Annunen could very well end up as the starter after this 2-year deal is up!

   EDIT: spelling

4. Cale and Juice the smoothie of future.

5. Looks like we don’t need annunetminder!

6. W

7. I like him on first shots the last few games. He is still and calm before the shot. When there are rebounds or he has to push side to side, he’s not the fastest or most athletic

   Goalie development is weird, some guys break out from nowhere, some take forever to reach top form, some get it and lose it, and a few stay up top for a long time

   I like giving Juice time and space to grow. Idk if it will work, but I am sure I’m not smarter than Cmac

8. RIR (rest in retirement) Frankie, thanks for the memories!

9. The Juice is loose!!!

10. He’ll be starting before this one’s up, I fervently believe.

    Someone’s gotta be the first Avs-drafted goalie to make an all-star team, right? right?!

11. Common Avs W

12. ~$1 million from our backup goalie can now be spent elsewhere. Good work management. Good work Juice for earning the job.

13. I was expecting him to be the backstop officially next season already but not getting a goalie at the deadline basically confirmed it.

    They didn’t want to be saddled with a veteran backup that has term left and couldn’t find a rental ufa they liked.

14. I’m down with this!

15. If this organization actually figures out how to develop Goalie prospects the league is absolutely cooked

16. He’s a great goalie. Little did you know he holds the record in Finnish Liiga for not letting a goal in for 302 minutes and 5 seconds. And he was only 19 when he made that record.

17. Makes sense, he is showing he is capable, we just need to continue using him over throwing him back to the AHL, we have what like 2 years left on Georgiev? Use those years to get Annunen ready to take over

18. What does mean for Ivan down on the farm?

19. I wonder who we will pick up once Georgie’s contract is up?