{"id":622467,"date":"2026-07-14T15:42:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/622467\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T15:42:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T15:42:17","slug":"fabian-lysell-signs-in-colorado-for-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/622467\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabian Lysell signs in Colorado for one year"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn\u2019t by accident the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> wrapped up all their existing Restricted Free Agent loose ends before the start of the 2026-27 league year. However, after trading for Fabian Lysell from the Boston Bruins in late June, one more contract to take care of was put back on their plate.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old right wing had concluded his four-year Entry Level Contract but didn\u2019t hold any arbitration rights so it was really up to the Avalanche to negotiate with Lysell in good faith after extending him a qualifying offer and it didn\u2019t take long to reach an agreement on a one-year two-way contract for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n

As always, there\u2019s a lot of clues on the outlook for Lysell in the details of the contract with a $850 NHL cap hit and $190k guaranteed minor league salary. The relatively low guaranteed money on this two-way deal puts the right winger at the bottom of the list as far as financial commitment from the Avalanche. Both Gavin Brindley<\/a> and Taylor Makar were given identical two-year contracts which are two-way in the first year. Their NHL cap hit is $875K and minor league salaries are $200K with a $300K guarantee. Oddly enough the Lysell deal is nearly the same as the one-year contract Ivan Ivan<\/a> received in Boston. One upside on the $850K cap hit is that makes Lysell is the cheapest call-up option to the Avalanche.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn\u2019t by accident the Colorado Avalanche wrapped up all their existing Restricted Free Agent loose ends before…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,154,95,192,144,5277,230,13987,18209,5,11383,1805,4],"class_list":["post-622467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-avalanche","tag-boston","tag-boston-bruins","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-columbus-blue-jackets","tag-fabian-lysell","tag-gavin-brindley","tag-hockey","tag-ivan-ivan","tag-massachusetts","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116919097341548679","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}