Avalanche prospects helped Colorado Eagles reach the upcoming ECHL Finals

LOVELAND — The Avalanche’s American Hockey League affiliate, the San Antonio Rampage, didn’t make the playoffs, either.
So as the season wound down, the Avalanche maneuvered to dispatch four of its young prospects to the ECHL Colorado Eagles, in the Loveland-based franchise’s first year of a working agreement with the NHL team from down the freeway.
More than six weeks after the organization’s NHL and AHL seasons ended, the four — defensemen Mason Geertsen and