Avalanche Indicators Wolanin | Colorado Avalanche

DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club introduced at present that the workforce has signed defenseman Christian Wolanin to a one-year contract for the 2026-27 season. 

Wolanin, 31, skated in 53 video games with the Providence Bruins within the American Hockey League and totaled 31 factors (7g/24a). He completed amongst Providence defensemen in scoring (2^nd), assists (1^st-tied), power-play targets (4, 1^st) and game-winning markers (4, T-1^st). The rearguard’s 4 tallies on the person benefit completed in a share for sixth amongst all AHL defensemen. Additionally, he added one level (0g/1a) in two Calder Cup playoff video games. 

The 6-foot-2, 190-pound defenseman has seen 86 regular-season video games of NHL motion and posted 23 factors (6g/17a) with the Vancouver Canucks (2022-23), Buffalo Sabres (2021-22), Los Angeles Kings (2020-22) and Ottawa Senators (2017-21). Wolanin set career-highs in video games performed (30), targets (4), assists (8), and factors (12) with the Sens in 2018-19 to complete fifth on the blueline in scoring and tied for fourth amongst that cohort in targets. He made his NHL debut the season prior when he logged 17:09 on March 22, 2018 vs. Edmonton. 

Born in Quebec City, Quebec, Wolanin has spent most of his professional profession within the AHL from 2017-26 with Providence, Abbotsford Canucks, Ontario Reign and Belleville Senators, amassing 208 factors (31g/177a) in 291 profession regular-season contests .He noticed a career-high in assists (49) and factors (55) in 2022-23 when he was credited with the Eddie Shore Award for the AHL’s finest defenseman and earned First All-Star Team honors after main all league defensemen in each assists and factors with Abbotsford. The blueliner has additionally appeared in 36 profession AHL playoff outings, recording 23 factors (6g/17a) and noticed a personal-best 2g/8a scoring line throughout 17 video games in 2024-25 with the Canucks to assist them seize the Calder Cup. 

Prior to turning professional, Wolanin spent three seasons on the University of North Dakota and posted a 22g/50a scoring line in 109 profession NCAA contests from 2015-18. He earned NCHC Second All-Star Team honors as a junior in 2017-18 when he topped out at 35 factors (12g/23a), and as a freshman collected 15 factors (4g/11a) in 32 video games to assist North Dakota seize the 2016 NCAA Frozen Four Championship. The left-shot defenseman additionally put collectively a four-year United States Hockey League profession with Green Bay (2012-14) and Muskegon (2013-15), registered 75 profession factors (20g/55a) in 165 video games and was a 2014-15 Second All-Star Team choice. 

Internationally, Wolanin represented his nation on the IIHF World Championship twice (2019 & 2021), successful the bronze medal in 2021 when he paced the United States d-core in scoring (1g/5a) in 10 appearances.

Christian’s father, Craig, performed 13 years within the NHL and was a member of the 1996 Stanley Cup Champion Colorado Avalanche. Of Craig’s 695 profession NHL video games, 364 of them had been with the Avalanche/Nordiques and he recorded 91 factors (24g/67a) with them from 1989-96.