Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Bayan jita-jita da yawa game da son fita daga Colorado, Avalanche ya yi musayar Duchene zuwa Ottawa Senators a cikin cinikin ƙungiyoyi uku a ranar 5 ga Nuwamba, 2017. Daga Ottawa, Avalanche sun sayi Andrew Hammond, Shane Bowers wanda aka zaba a zagaye na farko na 2018 da kuma
Zaben zagaye na uku na 2019. Bugu da kari, Avalanche ya sami Samuel Girard, Vladislav Kamenev da kuma zagaye na biyu na 2018 daga Predators. Avalanche ya yi nasara da wasanni goma daga 2 zuwa 22 ga Janairu. A wannan lokacin, Avalanche ya fi abokan hamayyarsu 41 zuwa 16. A cikin mummunan rauni, Nathan MacKinnon da Mikko Rantanen ne suka jagoranci Avalanche. MacKinnon ya gama na biyar a gasar zakarun Turai da maki 97, yayin da Rantanen ya zira kwallaye 84 a kakar wasa ta biyu. Avalanche sun cancanci shiga wasan karshe a wasan karshe na kakar wasa ta yau da kullun, inda suka kayar da Blues, wadanda suke fada da su a wasan karshe na wasan daji, 5<unk>2. Tawagar ta kammala da maki 95, karin maki 47 daga kakar da ta gabata. Avalanche ya yi daidai da 'yan Predators da ke jagorantar gasar a zagaye na farko. Bayan sun sami kansu ƙasa da 3<unk>1, Avalanche sun haɗu don cin nasarar Wasan 5 2<unk>1 bayan sun zira kwallaye biyu a ƙarshen lokaci na uku. Tare da Varlamov da Jonathan Bernier duka tare da raunin da ya faru, Hammond ya fara wasan kuma ya yi aiki mafi girma 44 ya ceci. Koyaya, Predators sun ɓoye Avalanche 5<unk>0 a Wasan 6 don cin nasarar jerin.