Colorado Avalanche Acquire Artturi Lehkonen From Montreal

The Colorado Avalanche are making some moves on trade deadline day. First, the team acquired Artturi Lehkonen from the Montreal Canadiens. In return the Avalanche a 2024 second-round pick and defenceman Justin Barron to Montreal. The Avalanche also acquired Andrew Cogliano from San Jose.

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Artturi Lehkonen Traded To Colorado

The Avalanche came out of nowhere to make this deal happen. All rumors had Lehkonen going to the Rangers, but with the news to Gabriel Landeskog, the Avalanche needed depth down at the winger position to replace Landeskog. Now nobody knows how long Landeskog will be out of action, but this move shows that the Avalanche don’t think he will return from his injury until the first round of the playoffs.

The Avalanche get a nice depth player from Montreal. This season Lehkonen has recorded 29 points (13 goals and 16 assists) in 58 games with the Canadiens. His value was never higher ever since he found his game under new head coach Martin St. Louis. Lehkonen has nine points in his last nine games for the Canadiens. He was a vital part of the Canadiens run to the Stanley Cup Final last year. Most notably for scoring the game-winning goal against Vegas in the semifinals.

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What Colorado Gets in Lehkonen

Colorado has a player that is under control come the summer as Lehkonen is an RFA that has arbitration rights. To help Colorado with cap space, the Canadiens will retain half of his $2.3 million AAV for this season.

Lehkonen is such a valuable player for the Avalanche. As mentioned before he is a depth forward that will be responsible defensively in his own zone and that is why Colorado traded for him. Not to mention his knowledge of the game will allow colorado to use him in all situations.

In addition, the Avalanche traded for Andrew Cogliano of the San Jose Sharks. Cogliano is brought in as a faceoff guy. This is an element that is underrated during the playoffs. As we have seen that is where games are won and lost. Plus Cogliano also adds playoff experience to the Avalanche.

These moves go along with adding Josh Manson before the deadline.