The Colorado Avalanche and San Jose Sharks have made a commerce. Colorado is buying Sharks goaltender Mackenzie Blackwood together with Givani Smith, and a 2025 fifth-round decide for Alexandar Georgiev, Nikolai Kovalenko, and a 2026 second-round decide, and a 2025 fifth-round decide. The Avalanche are additionally retaining 14 p.c of Georgiev’s wage within the commerce.
We’ve traded Alexandar Georgiev and Nikolai Kovalenko to the San Jose Sharks in alternate for Mackenzie Blackwood and Givani Smith. pic.twitter.com/04rknVkWGX
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) December 9, 2024
This had been a protracted awaited rumor between the Sharks and the Avalanche. Early within the season when the Avalanche goalies had been struggling, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet through NHLRumors.com had speculated the Avalanche wished to improve their goaltending and Blackwood was their prime goal.
Mackenzie Blackwood has been traded from the San Jose Sharks to the Colorado Avalanche in accordance with @Sheng_Peng. Colorado clearly remains to be on the lookout for a (good) goalie. pic.twitter.com/ThQpGW5clv
— Rono (@RonoAnalyst) December 9, 2024
Blackwood has proven his means to be an important goalie within the league, however he has been on unhealthy groups and that development continued with the Sharks.
Mackenzie Blackwood traded to #GoAvsGo
He’s having a robust 12 months on a foul crew. His fantasy potential is excessive if he can proceed enjoying at this stage on a crew that may rating quite a lot of objectives.https://t.co/O9VagiCfcZ pic.twitter.com/XHRZ7SCTIQ
— Frozen Instruments (@FrozenTools) December 9, 2024
With the commerce turning into a actuality, many marvel if can he translate these numbers to a contender. Not too long ago the Avalanche traded for goaltender Scott Wedgewood from the Nashville Predators fro Justus Annunen. Wedgewood simply shutout his former membership the New Jersey Devils on Sunday night time.
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Like Blackwood, Georgiev is an unrestricted free agent on the finish of the season. Colorado is making an attempt to contend for a Stanley Cup and the way in which Georgiev began the season, there was a must improve. Nevertheless, Georgiev had been turning it round just lately, and so had the Avalanche protection in entrance of him, however GM Chris MacFarland felt a necessity was obligatory.
2024-25 Stats:
Alexander Georgiev: 8-7-0 | 3.38GAA | .874 SVpercentMackenzie Blackwood: 6-9-3 | 3.00GAA | .911 SV%
Giving the Avs a .911 goalie is such an enormous enhance. Let’s not overlook that half #GoAvsGo
— Drew Livingstone (@ProducerDrew_) December 9, 2024
Despite the fact that Georgiev posted probably the most wins a few seasons in the past with 38, he has not made the well timed save, the Avalanche thought he would once they acquired him from the New York Rangers after profitable the Stanley Cup in 2022.
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Now the Avalanche hope that Blackwood together with Wedgewood will be the duo that brings that again to the Stanley Cup. As well as, the Avalanche might want to proceed to play that “impartial zone lure” to win video games to guard him.
