Who Are the Avalanche's TOP 5 TARGETS in the 2026 NHL Draft? | w/ Draft Expert Brad Francis

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🗓️ 25 June 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Draft expert Brad Francis joins AJ Haefele & Rudo of the DNVR Avalanche Podcast to break down the Colorado Avalanche’s top 5 potential targets in the 2026 NHL Draft, including Yegor Rybkin, Vladimir Dravecky, Tomas Galvas, Egor Barabanov, and Andre Mondoux. With the Avs not picking until the third round, the crew looks at which prospects fit Colorado’s draft trends, from elite-skating defensemen to high-upside goalies and late-round sleepers. Who should the Avalanche target to strengthen their prospect pool and find hidden value on Day 2 of the NHL Draft? Timestamps: 0:00 - Brad Francis Joins 1:01 - Yegor Rybkin 2:35 - Vladimir Dravecky 4:35 - Tomas Galvas 6:16 - Egor Barabanov 7:51 - Andre Mondoux 8:49 - Trending Upward 9:43 - Notre Dame 10:00 - Final Thoughts #nhl #hockey #coloradoavalanche #avalanche #goavsgo #nhldraft #nhldraft2026

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0:00.0	We're here with Brad Francis, homie, longtime guy and also employee of the Kingston Frontenac,
0:06.3	so knows his way around the Canadian major juniors and some of the possible draft guys,
0:11.9	as this is our 26 draft coverage for the DNVR avalanche.
0:16.1	Brad, thank you for coming on.
0:18.5	We're about to give you the-
0:19.8	Oh yeah, of course. Your task might be impossible on this segment
0:25.6	as we're going to try and get you to name five guys the abs might take in this draft.
0:30.9	And the abs don't have any picks in the top 60.
0:34.1	Yeah, guys, guys that are good fits that, you know, you know how the avalanche like to
0:39.7	draft, how they like to target. You're, you know, you're familiar with all of this. So we wanted to
0:45.1	task you with five guys that they could target, five guys who would make sense, you know,
0:50.5	with that third round pick, and then maybe a late round sleeper that we can all
0:55.2	pretend that we care a whole lot about at the end of day two yeah sounds good um i think
1:01.4	we're going to start with the goalie because that would be the quickest one fun you know the
1:05.5	guys love goalie love goalies yeah uh so this is a very good draft for goalies.
1:11.6	So I started with Igor Ribkin.
1:14.6	He's 6'7.
1:16.6	I had someone tell me he is a bigger Ivan Yunnan, which the avs are a big fan of his who they took two years ago.
1:24.6	Super athletic, super mobile, put up good numbers in the MHL last year.
1:29.8	Not totally sure about what his plan is for next year, but he's a guy that the
1:34.2	abscan draft, leave in Russia for a couple of years, and then come over eventually and
1:38.1	hopefully have pretty good impact, hopefully pushing Nabokov or whoever the abs goalie is at that time.
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