While the Colorado Avalanche chose not to qualify Denis Malgin last month, that didn’t completely close the door on a return to the team. That door has now officially been slammed shut.
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Denis Malgin, who had kicked around with the Toronto Maple Leafs for a number of seasons, was eventually traded to the Colorado Avalanche on December 19 for Dryden Hunt.
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With the season for the Colorado Avalanche complete, it’s time to take a look back at the individual players and how they performed. Next up is Denis Malgin.
Before the Colorado Avalanche took the ice for an optional skate on Sunday afternoon, general manager Chris MacFarland met with the media to discuss the season, as well as various other topics.
The defending Stanley Cup champion Colorado Avalanche have a big reason to win their regular-season finale when they hit the road to face the Nashville Predators on Friday.
Denis Malgin scored two goals for the visiting Colorado Avalanche in a 4-3 win against the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night. Alex Newhook and Brad Hunt also scored and Alexandar Georgiev made 38 saves for the Avalanche (48-24-6, 102 points), who have won 13 of 15 to keep pace with the Dallas Stars atop the Central Division standings.
The Colorado Avalanche will go for their seventh straight win when they host the reeling Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday night in Denver.
Right now, the Colorado Avalanche are the hottest team in the NHL. And the rest of the Western Conference should be very worried. Coming off a road trip where they went a perfect 4-for-4, the Avalanche returned home and kept the momentum going.
It’s been a little over three months since the Colorado Avalanche acquired Denis Malgin from the Toronto Maple Leafs for Dryden Hunt, and it’s safe to say, the trade has worked out well for Colorado.
In mid-December, Swiss player Denis Malgin was traded from the Toronto Maple Leafs to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for Dryden Hunt. In 23 games he had played with the Maple Leafs prior to the trade, Malgin had scored two goals and added two assists (for only four points).
The Toronto Maple Leafs and Colorado Avalanche made a trade Monday morning with the Leafs sending winger Denis Malgin to the Avalanche in exchange for fellow winger Dryden Hunt.
Malgin, 25, returned to North America this season after spending the last two years in Switzerland, where he dominated the National League for both Lausanne and Zurich.
This is a stylistic swap, a straight-up winger-for-winger deal for two players on expiring contracts. Hunt, 27, is two years older than Malgin, who struggled to finish his chances in a Maple Leafs uniform despite being given an opportunity at times in Toronto’s top six.
Denis Malgin has had a lot of time to reflect on his how his season has moved along. After a couple of seasons away in Switzerland, Malgin returned to the Maple Leafs on a one-year contract and earned a spot on the team’s second line to skate alongside John Tavares and and William Nylander.
Before this preseason, the Toronto Maple Leafs Denis Malgin was a forgotten player. Many Maple Leafs’ fans – including myself – thought he had shuffled off to Switzerland to continue his professional hockey career close to home.
When Kyle Dubas reacquired Denis Malgin this past offseason, many media and fans, including us, questioned the signing. Despite playing 184 games over
Nothing seems to last forever with players and NHL teams. Denis Malgin had a great preseason for the Toronto Maple Leafs and even scored during the team’s first game of the season.
We know from experience that Denis Malgin is a skilled hockey player – at least in Europe. But can he make it in the NHL, which as he noted is the best league in the world?
Denis Malgin was all smiles when he was finally able to score a goal for the Toronto Maple Leafs, even if it was just preseason. “It was nice to score, yes,” he said with a smile after his Maple Leafs defeated the Ottawa Senators 4-1 in both teams’ pre-season opener on Saturday afternoon.
The mention of Denis Malgin has already sent a lot of you to a bad place. Mason Marchment’s stat line is now playing over and over in your head and you
Denis Malgin will be back in the Maple Leafs organization come October and hopefully things can work this time around. There are many opinions out there when you look back at the trade that sent Mason Marchment to the Florida Panthers in exchange for the Swiss-born player.
Every year there is some bizarre out of nowhere player who runs away with the scoring title at the World Hockey Championships, and it is followed by a feverish effort from NHL GMs to bring that player into their fold.
Denis Malgin has had an interesting NHL career. Although he’s now a depth forward who’s played eight games with the Toronto Maple Leafs in 2019-20 but none this past season, he had a much more prominent role with the Florida Panthers a couple of seasons ago.
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