 Blanche added nine players in the 2024 NHL Draft in Las Vegas this weekend. The Avs netted a handful of extra picks thanks to trades with Utah and Buffalo. The Avs took Russian goaltender Ilya Nabokov in the second round. In the third round, Colorado selected Minnesota's prep player William Zellers, who will play at North Dakota next year. The Avs spent a fourth-round pick on Jake Fisher and took Quebec's Lauka Cloutier, Russian Ivan Yunin, and Chechnya's Maximilian Curon. In the fifth round, Torrey Pitner, Christian Humphries, and Nikita Preshtapov.