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Avalanche 2021 first-round draught prime Oskar Olausson, an 18-year-old Swede, volition unrecorded successful North America for the archetypal clip this hockey season. The winger, who primitively said helium would instrumentality to Sweden for 2021-22, is pegged to play for large junior’s Barrie Colts of the Ontario Hockey League.
The 20-under Colts drafted him successful the 2nd circular (118th overall) of the Canadian Hockey League import draught successful June. In July, the Avs made him the 28th enactment of the NHL draft, and though Olausson astatine the clip said helium expected to instrumentality to Sweden for 2021-22, Colorado signed him to his three-year entry-level declaration successful August and besides convinced him to motion with Barrie.
“I deliberation Colorado wants maine to spell to Barrie,” Olausson said Sunday aft Day 1 of development/rookie campy astatine Family Sports Center. “Colorado, they ain maine and tin bash what they want.”
Olausson, 6-foot-1, 180 pounds, is 1 of the main attractions astatine this week’s camp, which leads into a play rookie showcase against 5 different NHL clubs successful Glendale and Scottsdale, Ariz. Justin Barron, the Avs’ 2020 first-round prime (25th overall), and 2019 first-rounders Bo Byram (No. 4) and Alex Newhook (No. 16) are besides successful the camp.
By playing successful North America alternatively of Sweden, Olausson volition apt stay with the Avs done a bully information of regular grooming camp, which volition statesman astir Sept. 22.
“We’re ace excited to person him present astatine camp,” Brian Willsie, the Avs’ manager of amateur development. “Having the improvement campy this precocious we evidently suffer retired connected our NCAA prospects and our European prospects, but to beryllium capable to motion him and get him successful this to exposure him to what we’re each astir — our habits, our characteristics, the mode we play the game, it’s a immense vantage for him, and for america to get eyes connected him.”
A fistful of different Avalanche apical prospects cannot be this week’s campy due to the fact that they are inactive amateurs committed to their assemblage teams. That database begins with 2019 second-rounder Drew Helleson of Boston College and 2021 second-rounder Sean Behrens of the University of Denver.
Despite not having those guys, among others, Willsie said this week’s campy is disconnected to an awesome start.
“We’re blessed with the radical arsenic a whole. Everybody is successful apical shape,” helium said. “Usually, we get them successful July and they’re successful their mid-summer form. This clip of twelvemonth they’re astatine the apical of their crippled truthful it’s breathtaking to see.”
The camp, which is escaped and unfastened to the public, continues Monday greeting (two groups, 8:45 a.m. and 11 a.m.), and includes a afloat squad signifier astatine 2:45 p.m.
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