The Colorado Avalanche have been buyers at the trade deadline over the past few seasons, and the general consensus is that they will be again this year. But the trade deadline for this season for the Avalanche is going to be a tricky thing.

When a team is active at the deadline like the Avalanche have, at some point all your big trade chips start to wear thin. The Avs still have some prospects and picks they could part with, but going off of past seasons, they don't like to give away either so easily. Could they? Sure. Will they? That's a difficult question to answer.

The Avalanche also are not big on rental players. They entertained it last year with Claude Giroux, but it is not something they frequent year after year.

Once again, the Avs are attached to some of the bigger names in the market, like Ryan O'Reilly and Jonathan Toews. It will take some creativity to bring in names like that, which the Avs could be willing to do. But we also should prepare ourselves for the Avalanche to be on the quiet side. Not for a lack of trying, it's just they lack what other teams can sell.

We break it all down as well as look ahead to this weekend's back to back against St. Louis and Edmonton.

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