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Avalanche Prospect Sean Behrens Out For Season With Knee Injury

October 8, 2024 at 12:24 pm CDT | by Josh Erickson Leave a Comment

Avalanche defense prospect Sean Behrens sustained a knee injury on Saturday while practicing with the team’s AHL affiliate and will miss the entire 2024-25 season, the team announced today.

It’s a tough break for one of Colorado’s most intriguing prospects in an otherwise thin pool. The 21-year-old was a second-round pick of the Avs back in 2021 out of the U.S. National Development Team Program. He arrived in Denver the following season, but not with the Avalanche. Instead, he embarked on a three-year run with the University of Denver, one that proved to be the right choice for his development.

In addition to the numerous individual honors Behrens received, he was a core piece of the Denver blue line that helped the school to two national championships in three years. Behrens notched 81 points and a +45 rating in 112 appearances there and was named the NCHC’s Best Defensive Defenseman last season. After winning it all again with Denver, Behrens ended the season with an assist in one regular season and one playoff game for AHL Colorado.

The 5’10” left-shot defender was expected to log top-four minutes for the minor-league Eagles this season but will instead spend the campaign out of game action and in the practice rink recovering. While he didn’t make the opening night roster, he was a strong candidate to see an NHL recall at some point this season as well. He has two seasons left after this one on his entry-level deal at a $906K cap hit.

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Avalanche Sign Sean Behrens To Entry-Level Contract

April 19, 2024 at 5:51 pm CDT | by Gabriel Foley Leave a Comment

The Colorado Avalanche have signed University of Denver defenseman Sean Behrens to his entry-level contract (Twitter link). It’s a three-year deal, set to begin in the 2024-25 season. Behrens will finish this season on an amateur try-out with the Colorado Eagles, who play their final two regular-season games this weekend.

Behrens is coming off a National Championship win with the University of Denver, where he’s spent the last three seasons. He’s earned a prominent role with the Pioneers, ranking third on the team’s blue line in scoring this season with 31 points in 44 games and rotating into top-pair minutes. The performance brought Behrens’ collegiate totals up to 81 points in 112 games – making him Denver’s third-highest scoring defender since 2016, behind Ian Mitchell and Mike Benning.

Colorado drafted Behrens in the second round of the 2021 NHL Draft, following an impressive, yet contentious, couple of seasons with the U.S. National Team Development Program. Behrens served an incredibly important role with the NTDP, operating on his off-hand next to Luke Hughes for much of his U18 season. And while he performed well, some scouts remained bearish given his small stature.

Behrens has directly addressed those concerns in college, putting on mass and adding a substantial amount of grit, strength, and defensive awareness to his game. Those improvements are maybe best quantified by his team-leading 70 blocked shots this season. He’s become a defender that can make an big play in all three zones – whether it be through nifty dangling, an impressive pass, or a big hit. Behrens will certainly face plenty of challenges as he looks to maintain that physicality into the pro scene, but he could find a fast track to success in an Avalanche system that’s brought up similarly undersized talents in Samuel Girard and Tyson Barrie.

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