Over a span of 17 months from February 2022 to June 2023, Mr. Kroenke's NFL franchise, the Los Angeles Rams, won Super Bowl LVI on their home grounds of SoFi Stadium, the Avalanche won the 2022 Stanley Cup, the Colorado Mammoth, Mr. Kroenke's National League Lacrosse team, won the 2022 NLL championship and the Denver Nuggets won the 2023 NBA championship.

 

The Avalanche secured their third Stanley Cup championship in 2022, defeating the Tampa Bay Lightning to cap off a 16-4 postseason run. Colorado has made the playoffs in each of the last six seasons, tied for the third-longest active streak in the NHL, and has won three consecutive division titles, tied with Carolina for the NHL's longest active streak of division crowns.

 

During his first five years of ownership, the Avalanche sold out every home game and went on to post an NHL-record 487 consecutive game sellout streak. The Avalanche were chosen by the NHL to host two outdoor games in a span of four years-the 2016 Stadium Series at Coors Field and the 2020 Stadium Series at the U.S. Air Force Academy-and have competed in two NHL Global Series in Europe (2017-18 in Stockholm, Sweden and 2022-23 in Tampere, Finland).

 

The Nuggets won the 2022-23 Northwest Division championship, their sixth division title under Mr. Kroenke. The Nuggets have made the playoffs in each of the last five years, which included a run to the NBA Western Conference Finals in 2019-20. The Nuggets were one of only two NBA teams to make the playoffs in all 10 seasons from 2003 through 2013 and made an appearance in the Western Conference Finals in 2008-09.

 

In the summer of 2010, Mr. Kroenke elevated Josh Kroenke to team President and Governor of the Nuggets and three years later named Josh team President of the Avalanche.

 

Off the ice and court, one of Mr. Kroenke's priorities has been the Colorado community. More than $17 million in contributions have been made to Colorado charities through Kroenke Sports Charities and the Colorado Avalanche and Denver Nuggets Community Funds. The Avalanche and Nuggets continue to be strong supporters of youth hockey and basketball in the state of Colorado, sponsoring the Avalanche International Pee-Wee Qualifier Tournament and offering numerous youth basketball camps to help teach the game to local children. Additionally, the Kroenke family donated $1 million to the Red Cross organization following the hurricanes that devastated the coastal regions of the country in August 2017.

 

Denver-based Kroenke Sports & Entertainment owns Major League Soccer's Colorado Rapids and the National Lacrosse League's Colorado Mammoth. The Rapids hosted the MLS All-Star Game in 2007 and 2015 and won the MLS Cup championship in 2010. The Colorado Mammoth won the National Lacrosse League Cup in 2021-22, their second NLL title (also 2006) and has been a playoff participant in all but two of its seasons. The Mammoth also hosted the NLL All-Star Game in 2004 and 2009.

 

In April 2011, Kroenke became the majority shareholder of Arsenal FC, the storied English Premier League football club. Arsenal won the 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2020 FA Cup and qualified for the Champions League in 19 consecutive seasons from 1998-99 to 2016-17, the second longest run ever.

 

The St. Louis Rams (now Los Angeles Rams) won the Super Bowl in 2000 while Mr. Kroenke was a co-owner; he became the team's principal owner in August 2010. The Rams won their second Super Bowl (LVI) in 2021. Three years earlier, Los Angeles captured the 2018 NFC championship and played in Super Bowl LIII.

 

In addition to his success as a team owner, Kroenke has been a pioneer in television programming. In September 2004, Kroenke launched Altitude Sports & Entertainment, a 24-hour regional television network that is the broadcast home for the Avalanche, Nuggets, Mammoth and Rapids. Altitude also airs professional, collegiate and high school sporting events throughout the Rocky Mountain region. KSE expanded its media position in 2013 with the acquisition of Outdoor Channel and in 2014 with the acquisition of Sportsman Channel. KSE also owns World Fishing Network.

 

KSE Radio owns three Denver FM radio stations, KIMN-FM (Mix 100.3), KXKL-FM (Kool 105) and KKSE-FM (Altitude Sports Radio 92.5), the radio broadcast home of the Avalanche, Nuggets, Mammoth and Rapids. KSE Radio also owns one Denver AM station, KKSE (Altitude Sports Radio 950 AM).

 

Ball Arena, a KSE-operated facility and the largest indoor arena, event center and concert venue in Colorado, is the home arena for the Avalanche, Nuggets and Mammoth.

 

In 2020, Mr. Kroenke celebrated the opening of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, a 298-acre development with a 70,240-seat stadium as its crown jewel. SoFi Stadium, home to the Rams and Los Angeles Chargers, has transformed the Hollywood Park area into a year-round sports and entertainment destination that hosted Super Bowl LVI in 2022 and has been awarded the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2028 Olympics and the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2023. Additionally, the multi-purpose project serves as a West Coast campus for the National Football League, houses NFL Media's headquarters, features hosting capabilities for future Super Bowls, NFL Drafts, and Pro Bowls.

 

On April 7, 2007, KSE opened Dick's Sporting Goods Park, one of the largest soccer-specific complexes in the world. The state-of-the-art sports facility sits on more than 160 acres in Commerce City, Colorado, and holds 18,000 fans for field sports and up to 27,000 for concerts. KSE also owns the Paramount Theatre, a historic landmark in downtown Denver, and through Peak Entertainment, LLC, a joint venture between KSE and AEG Live Rocky Mountains, co-manages 1STBANK Center in Broomfield, a multi-use arena accommodating up to 6,500 people for a variety of events. Ball Arena, Dick's Sporting Goods Park, the Paramount Theatre and 1STBANK Center are home to more than 300 events annually.

 

Kroenke's enthusiasm and vision ensure that Denver will continue to be the top entertainment destination in the Rocky Mountain region for generations to come. Local media outlets have consistently named Kroenke one of the most significant people in the Denver arts and entertainment community, saying "no other person entertains more people more often."

 

Kroenke is the chairman and owner of The Kroenke Group, a private real estate investment and development company with properties located throughout the United States and Canada. Over the past four decades, he has built a reputation as one of the nation's leading real estate developers.

 

A member of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame, Kroenke holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Missouri. In addition to their son Josh, who is President and Governor of the Avalanche and Nuggets and Vice Chairman of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, Stan and his wife, Ann, have a daughter, Whitney, an award-winning documentary film producer.

Since Kroenke assumed the role of Avalanche President, the club has won four division championships (2013-14, 2020-23), the 2021 Presidents' Trophy and 2022 Stanley Cup. The Avs have made the playoffs in each of their last six seasons, tied for the third-longest current streak in the NHL. Colorado's run of three straight division titles is tied with Carolina for the league's longest active streak.

 

The 2021-22 Avalanche enjoyed their most successful regular season in franchise history (56-19-7, 119 points) and continued that into the postseason with a 16-4 playoff mark en route to capturing the 2022 Stanley Cup. Colorado's 72 combined wins matched the NHL record set by the 1976-77 Canadiens, 1983-84 Oilers and 1995-96 Red Wings.

 

Colorado's Stanley Cup championship came five years after a last-place finish in 2016-17. The Avs became the fifth team in the expansion era (1967-68) to win a title within five years of a last place finish and the first since the 2009 Penguins. The 2020-21 club was the first NHL team to go from worst in the regular season to first in four seasons or less since the Bruins in 1970-71.

 

In addition to winning the NBA title, the 2022-23 Nuggets won the Northwest Division championship, their sixth title under Kroenke. The Nuggets have made the playoffs in each of the last five years, which included a run to the NBA Western Conference Finals in 2019-20. The Nuggets were one of only two NBA teams to make the playoffs in all 10 seasons from 2003 through 2013 and made an appearance in the Western Conference Finals in 2008-09.

 

Kroenke, in conjunction with the National Hockey League, was instrumental in bringing the 2016 Coors Light NHL Stadium Series game to Denver. The event, which featured the Avalanche and the Red Wings playing at Coors Field on Feb. 27, 2016, was the first ever NHL outdoor game in the state of Colorado. The 2019-20 season saw the Avalanche host its second outdoor game in four years, this time at the U.S. Air Force Academy on Feb. 15, 2020, against the Los Angeles Kings. The Avalanche were also chosen to play in an outdoor game in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, against the Vegas Golden Knights in 2021. The Avs were chosen to compete in both the 2017-18 and 2022-23 NHL Global Series in Sweden and Finland, respectively.

 

In addition to his responsibilities with the Nuggets and Avalanche, Kroenke serves as Alternate Governor for the Colorado Rapids (Major League Soccer) and is on the Board of Directors for Arsenal Football Club (English Premier League) in London. In his role as Vice Chairman of Kroenke Sports & Entertainment, he works closely with KSE executives on multiple business operation.

 

In 2014, Kroenke was named to the SportsBusiness Daily's prestigious "Forty Under 40" list. The annual list honors the most promising young executives in sports business under the age of 40.

 

Additionally, Kroenke has spearheaded numerous business initiatives throughout Ball Arena and the Nuggets and Avalanche organizations. In 2013 he oversaw the installation of a 4,400 square foot HD center-hung scoreboard, one of the largest and most technologically advanced scoreboards in a professional sports arena. In just the past two years he has unveiled new home, road and alternate jerseys for the Nuggets, overseen the complete redesign of the Nuggets' locker room, training room and players' lounge, and introduced Club Lexus, offering exclusive amenities and services to Nuggets and Avalanche ticket-holders.

 

Kroenke is also leading KSE into the fast-growing area of eSports. Instrumental in the decision to create KSE eSports, Kroenke acquired the inaugural franchise in Activision/Blizzard's Overwatch league, now known as the Los Angeles Gladiators. As co-founder of KSE eSports with his father Stan, Josh has helped guide all elements of the operation including branding and launch of the team in January 2018.

 

Athletic competition has always been a passion for Kroenke, who attended the University of Missouri on a full basketball scholarship. He was a contributor during Missouri's trip to the Elite Eight as a sophomore in 2002, and he earned Academic All-Big XII First Team honors while serving as team captain during his junior and senior seasons. After graduating with a degree in financial management, Kroenke completed a six-month internship with the NBA's League Office working in its Player Development Department. Upon finishing his internship, Kroenke worked on Wall Street where he assisted with the debt underwriting and securitization of numerous commercial real estate transactions.

 

Away from the Nuggets and Avalanche, Kroenke serves on the Board of Strategic Development for the Trulaske College of Business at the University of Missouri. Kroenke is an active supporter of Kroenke Sports Charities and the Denver Nuggets and Colorado Avalanche Community Funds. He is involved in several other charitable endeavors, including the Todd Peglow Memorial Scholarship Fund at the University of Missouri. He is also a major supporter of the Playing For Change Foundation, which was co-founded by his sister, Whitney, and benefits children worldwide by building schools that specialize in teaching music and arts.

Sakic, who captained the Avalanche to a pair of Stanley Cup championships as a player (1996, 2001) and was the architect of Colorado’s 2022 Stanley Cup title as General Manager, is the only individual in NHL history to win a Stanley Cup as a captain and GM with the same organization.

 

The Avalanche enter the 2025-26 season having made eight consecutive playoff appearances, tied for the second-longest active streak in the NHL behind only the Toronto Maple Leafs’ nine straight. Since 2019-20, Colorado owns a league-best 287-130-37 (.673) regular-season record, while the 50 playoff wins dating back to 2018-19 trail only Dallas (54), Tampa Bay (52) and Florida (52). The club has also posted four straight 100-point campaigns, a franchise record, and have hit 50 wins in three of the last four seasons.

 

Sakic was the 2021-22 recipient of the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award, the first executive in club history to receive the honor. Under his direction, the Avalanche had their most successful regular season in franchise history (56-19-7, 119 points) and continued that into the postseason with a 16-4 playoff mark en route to capturing the 2022 Stanley Cup. Colorado’s 72 combined wins matched the NHL record set by the 1976-77 Canadiens, 1983-84 Oilers and 1995-96 Red Wings.

 

Colorado’s Stanley Cup championship came five years after a last-place finish in 2016-17. The Avs became the fifth team in the expansion era (1967-68) to win a title within five years of a last place finish and the first since the 2009 Penguins. Colorado won the Presidents’ Trophy the previous year in 2020-21, becoming the first NHL team to go from worst in the regular season to first in four seasons or less since the Bruins in 1970-71.

 

Under Sakic and current GM Chris MacFarland, the Avalanche have signed Nathan MacKinnon, Cale Makar, Gabriel Landeskog, Valeri Nichushkin, Mackenzie Blackwood and Devon Toews to long-term deals, locking up the core of the franchise. Three of those five players were first-round picks since Sakic joined the front office, Blackwood was 28 years old upon his mid-season acquisition, and Toews was traded to the Avs at the age of 26 for a pair of second-round selections. Among Colorado’s drafted core during Sakic’s tenure, Makar (2020), MacKinnon (2014) and Landeskog (2012) won the Calder Trophy. No team has had as many rookie of the year winners during that span. Additionally, MacKinnon has gone on to win the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay Award, Makar has captured two Norris Trophies as well as a Conn Smythe and Landeskog enters this season as the NHL’s third-longest tenured captain.

 

Since Sakic became the President of Hockey Operations, the Avalanche have also locked up Brock Nelson to a three-year contract and agreed to long-term extensions with key depth pieces in Logan O’Connor (six years), Parker Kelly (four years) and got a four-year contract with Ross Colton done less than three weeks after Colorado acquired the pending restricted free agent in a trade.

 

The Avalanche signed MacKinnon to an eight-year contract in September 2022 and MacKinnon has rewarded the front office with three consecutive 100-point seasons, including a franchise-record 140 points (51g/89a) in 2023-24 en route to taking home both the Hart and Ted Lindsay awards. MacKinnon’s deal capped off a busy summer in which the club also agreed to terms on extensions with Valeri Nichushkin (eight years), Artturi Lehkonen (five years) and Josh Manson (four years).

 

That followed a productive 2021 offseason in which Sakic and company locked up captain Landeskog to an eight-year contract and Makar to a six-year deal. Soon after, the club acquired Darcy Kuemper in a trade on July 28, 2021, and signed free agent Darren Helm the following day. The Avs strengthened the team further as the Trade Deadline approached, adding Manson on March 14 as well as Lehkonen and Andrew Cogliano on March 21. All were key contributors to Colorado’s championship run.

 

Key off-season and in-season acquisitions have been a staple for the franchise under Sakic. In the summer of 2019, Sakic and his staff brought in Nazem Kadri and Andre Burakovsky via trade while signing Nichushkin. Kadri was selected to his first NHL All-Star Game in 2021-22, Nichushkin led the team in goals during the 2022 Stanley Cup Final and assisted on Burakovsky’s overtime winner in Game 1.

 

In addition to the improvements up front, the Avalanche have also upgraded their blue line. Samuel Girard was acquired as part of a three-team trade in November 2017, a deal that also yielded the fourth overall pick in the 2019 NHL Draft, defenseman Bowen Byram. During the 2020 offseason, the club acquired Toews and signed him to a four-year deal. Byram led all rookies with nine points during the 2022 postseason while Toews is a league-best +178 since joining the Avs.

 

The Avalanche organization was tabbed as having the NHL’s best farm system by The Hockey News in their 2020 Future Watch issue. At the time, the outlet listed Colorado as boasting the NHL’s No. 1 prospect in Byram.

 

Head coach Jared Bednar, hired by Sakic in August 2016, is the winningest in franchise history (390-246-64, .603) and the first Avalanche bench boss to lead his teams to eight consecutive playoff berths. After guiding Colorado to the 2022 Stanley Cup, Bednar became the first individual to win a championship in the NHL, AHL and ECHL as a head coach. Bednar, a finalist for the Jack Adams Award in 2018, owns the sixth-highest postseason winning percentage (.591, 52-35-1) in Stanley Cup Playoff history.

 

In Sakic’s first season of overseeing all hockey-related decisions, the Avalanche won the 2013-14 Central Division championship and tied a then-franchise record with 52 wins. Colorado took home three trophies at the 2014 NHL Awards, tying Boston for the most of any team.

 

The 2017-18 Avalanche, the league’s youngest team, enjoyed one of the greatest turnaround seasons in NHL history, as Colorado’s 47-point increase from 2016-17 equaled the fourth-highest, year-to-year improvement ever.

 

A month into that 2017-18 campaign, the Avalanche orchestrated the three-team trade that added Girard, Vladislav Kamenev and a second-round pick in the 2018 NHL Draft from the Nashville Predators, as well as Shane Bowers, Andrew Hammond, a first-round selection in the 2019 NHL Draft (Byram) and a third-round pick in the 2019 NHL Draft from the Ottawa Senators. All-in-all, that trade landed the Avs a first, second and third-round draft pick, a former first rounder (Bowers) and two former second rounders (Girard, Kamenev).

 

Sakic announced his retirement from the game of hockey on July 9, 2009, following a career that spanned 20 seasons and 1,378 games with the same organization. He wore the ‘C’ as team captain for 16 consecutive seasons (17 seasons overall). Steve Yzerman (19 seasons) and Sidney Crosby (18 seasons) are the only other players in NHL history to serve as a captain for at least 17 campaigns. Sakic led the Avalanche to two Stanley Cup titles (1996, 2001), which included the city of Denver’s first major professional sports championship in 1996. The Burnaby, British Columbia, native captured the franchise’s first Hart Trophy as league MVP in 2001, won the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff MVP in 1996, earned the Lester B. Pearson Award (NHLPA MVP) and Lady Byng Trophy (sportsmanship) in 2001 and was named to the NHL’s First All-Star Team on three occasions (2001, 2002 and 2004).

 

Sakic was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2012, his first year of eligibility. The only player who spent his entire career with the Avalanche organization to achieve that honor, Sakic was officially inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame on Nov. 12, 2012. He was named one of “The 100 Greatest NHL Players” honoring 100 years of NHL hockey in 2017.

 

Sakic retired as the eighth-highest scorer in NHL history with 1,641 career points. He ranked seventh all-time in both playoff goals (84) and playoff points (188-tied), and still holds the NHL record with eight postseason overtime goals.

 

Selected by the Quebec Nordiques in the first round (15th overall) of the 1987 Entry Draft, Sakic is the franchise’s all-time leader in nearly every statistical category. With Sakic as team captain, the Avalanche/Nordiques captured an NHL-record nine consecutive division championships from 1995 to 2003. In addition to its two Stanley Cup titles, the Avalanche also won two Presidents’ Trophies and made six appearances in the Western Conference Finals during that time span.

 

Sakic’s No. 19 jersey was retired by the Avalanche during a pre-game ceremony on Oct. 1, 2009.

 

Joe and his wife, Debbie, have three children: Mitchell and twins Chase and Kamryn. The Sakics are active with the Food Bank of the Rockies charity, and Joe previously hosted his own charity golf tournament to benefit the Food Bank in Denver. Sakic was awarded the 2007 NHL Foundation Player Award in recognition of his commitment and service to charities in his community. He currently serves on the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee.

The Avalanche have earned a berth in the Stanley Cup Playoffs eight consecutive seasons, tied for the second-longest active streak in the NHL (Toronto, nine straight). In that span, Colorado owns a league-best 287-130-37 (.673) regular-season record since 2019-20. Dating back to 2018-19, the Avs have gone 50-31 in the playoffs, with Dallas (54) being the only Western Conference team with more playoff victories since then. The club also has posted four straight 100-point campaigns, a franchise record, and have hit 50 wins in three of the last four seasons. That stretch includes notching a club-record 56 victories during the Stanley Cup-winning season of 2021-22.

 

MacFarland’s first pieces of business this past offseason was locking up veteran center Brock Nelson to a three-year contract after he was acquired at the 2025 Trade Deadline. The club also provided present and future reinforcements to the organization’s prospect system by acquiring former Big Ten Player of the Year Gavin Brindley along with two draft picks in a deal with Columbus. Once free agency began, management then signed former Norris Trophy winner Brent Burns to a one-year contract to bolster the team’s blue line depth. And later on, MacFarland and his staff also brought back Joel Kiviranta and signed Victor Olofsson to one-year deals to round out the additions up front.

 

Over the 2024-25 campaign, MacFarland engineered one of the biggest in-season roster overhauls the league has ever seen. The club made eight trades between Opening Night and the Trade Deadline and became the 13th time that a team qualified for the postseason with at least 10 different players in the team’s first playoff game compared to Opening Night. That number increased to 11 different players for Game 3 of the First Round when captain Gabriel Landeskog returned to the lineup after a 1,032 day absence. The in-season trades included swapping out both goaltenders – the first time in NHL history that a team has traded both opening night goaltenders before Christmas – and acquiring Martin Necas in a three-team trade that marked the first time since 1990-91 a trade occurred involving two players averaging over a point per game that late into the season.

 

Since taking over as General Manager, MacFarland has inked long-term extensions with both Devon Toews (seven years) and Nathan MacKinnon (eight years). Toews, who signed two days after the 2023-24 season-opener, just posted his fourth straight 40-point season and second consecutive campaign of hitting double-digit goals. MacKinnon, who signed prior to the start of the 2022-23 training camp, won the Hart Trophy and Ted Lindsay award during the first year of his extension in 2023-24 after breaking the single-season franchise record for points with 140 (51g/89a). He then followed it up with a 116-point output last year (32g/84a). MacKinnon’s signing wrapped up a busy summer of 2022 in which the Avs agreed to terms with Artturi Lehkonen on a five-year agreement, Valeri Nichushkin to an eight-year extension and Josh Manson on a four-year contract.

 

This followed up the previous summer (2021) that saw the Avs ink Landeskog to an eight-year contract, while also signing Cale Makar to a six-year deal. Landeskog captained the team to the Stanley Cup while Makar has taken home two Norris Trophies and a Conn Smythe Trophy. Among the other moves made during MacFarland’s tenure with the Avalanche include trades for Nazem Kadri, Andre Burakovsky, Samuel Girard and Toews, as well as key deadline acquisitions in Manson, Lehkonen and Andrew Cogliano to propel them to the 2022 Stanley Cup.

 

Prior to joining the Avalanche, MacFarland was a member of the Columbus Blue Jackets’ hockey operations department for 16 years. He worked in nearly every facet of the organization including scouting at the professional and amateur level, player contract negotiations, salary cap management and arbitration, collective bargaining agreement administration, budgeting and team scheduling issues. He also oversaw the hockey operations efforts of the Blue Jackets’ minor-league affiliates.

 

MacFarland joined Columbus prior to the 1999-00 NHL campaign and served as the club’s manager of hockey operations from 2001-07 before being promoted to assistant to the general manager in July 2007. He moved to the position of assistant general manager a year later in July 2008. Born on March 28, 1970 in the Bronx, New York, he played college hockey at Pace University where he received a bachelor’s degree in business in 1992 and later graduated from the university’s law school in 1998. He began his career on the business side of the sport as an intern in the NHL’s New York office from 1993-94 and worked in the NHL Productions office while attending law school.

 

Chris and his wife, Chandra, have three sons, Jake, Gavin, Sawyer, and a daughter, Cara.

The 2025-26 campaign marks McDonald’s 38th year working in the front office for an NHL team. He was a part of two Stanley Cup championship clubs, the 1994 New York Rangers and the 2019 St. Louis Blues.

 

Since arriving on July 22, 2022, McDonald has made multiple hires that shaped the Eagles’ coaching staff. This past summer, McDonald hired Mark Letestu as Head Coach of the Eagles, who spent the last four seasons as an assistant with the AHL’s Cleveland Monsters and played parts of 14 seasons of professional hockey. He rounded out the staff with Derek Army, who was the winningest coach in Wheeling Nailers franchise history, to join the reigns as an assistant. McDonald’s first head coach hire – Aaron Schneekloth – accepted an NHL position with the Seattle Kraken. He ascended to the Eagles’ bench boss role after Greg Cronin took a head coaching position with the Anaheim Ducks. Additionally, the team saw 2001 Stanley Cup winner Dan Hinote parlay his Eagles coaching tenure into an NHL opportunity with the Tampa Bay Lightning.

 

Prior to joining the Avalanche, McDonald was with the St. Louis Blues organization for 21 seasons, which included working as Assistant GM for the 2019 Stanley Cup championship team. McDonald had served as General Manager of the Blues’ American Hockey League affiliate since Aug. 28, 2018 and in that role, was also a pro scout for St. Louis. He was the recipient of the 2022 Thomas Ebright Memorial Award, which is annually presented for outstanding career contributions to the American Hockey League.

 

McDonald originally joined the Blues organization prior to the 2001-02 season as a professional scout. He scouted professional talent for St. Louis for two years before the organization promoted him to Director of Professional Scouting in 2003. In June 2005, he was given the added responsibilities of being the general manager of the Blues’ former AHL affiliate, the Peoria Rivermen. In May 2009, McDonald was named Assistant General Manager for the Notes and worked closely with St. Louis President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Doug Armstrong in coordinating the transfer of players and in acquiring professional hockey players.

 

McDonald began his career in professional hockey in 1988 as a member of the communications department of the New York Rangers. Following the 1993-94 season when the Rangers won the Stanley Cup, he moved into the Rangers’ hockey operations department and worked as an assistant to Rangers General Manager Neil Smith during the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season.

 

A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, McDonald is married (Lauren), has two children (Sean and Kayleigh) and three step-children (Joseph, Jenna, and Daniel).

Prior to joining the Avalanche, Wilson, 42, spent 18 years working at the National Hockey League, including three years as Vice President of Central Registry. He was one of the primary contacts for the 32 member NHL teams regarding CBA compliance and salary cap management, and also handled trade calls and contract affairs.

 

A native of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, Wilson played a key role in working out a new CBA that would save the remainder of the 2019-20 season and work through the next few amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Details included finalizing player payments during the pandemic, directing the configurations of salary arbitrations, trade contingencies and player bonuses shortly after the league suspended play on March 12, 2020 as well as ahead of the abbreviated 2020-21 campaign.

 

Wilson first joined the league offices the year after the NHL lockout in 2004-05 and helped navigate the revamped league after the season-long work stoppage. He worked in various capacities during his tenure with the NHL offices.

 

Wilson is bilingual - fluent in English and French - and lives with his wife, Julie, and two sons, Ben and Noah, in Oakville, Ontario.

Cogliano enjoyed a 17-year playing career where he competed in 1,294 regular-season games, recording 464 points (190g/274a) with the Edmonton Oilers, Anaheim Ducks, Dallas Stars, San Jose Sharks and Colorado. He also recorded 40 points (13g/27a) in 131 career postseason games and helped the Avalanche win the 2022 Stanley Cup. Selected by the Oilers in the first round (25th overall) of the 2005 NHL Draft, Cogliano spent his first four seasons with Edmonton (2007-11), followed by parts of eight years with the Ducks (2011-19). Cogliano opened his career with an 830-game ironman streak from Oct. 4, 2007 to Jan. 13, 2018, which was the fourth-longest streak in NHL history at the time. He joined Doug Jarvis (964 games) as the only players to appear in 800-plus consecutive games from the start of his career. Cogliano ended up dressing in 98% of possible team games (1,294 of 1,321) over the course of his career.

 

Following his stint with the Ducks, Cogliano joined the Stars where he spent parts of three seasons from 2018-19 to 2020-21. After playing 54 games with the Sharks in 2021-22, Cogliano joining the Avalanche at the trade deadline on March 21, 2022 and three months later hoisted Lord Stanley after Colorado defeated Tampa Bay in the Final. Cogliano skated in 172 regular-season outings with the Avalanche and totaled 39 points (16g/23a) while adding 11 points (3g/8a) in 31 playoff games.

 

Before winning the Stanley Cup with Colorado, Cogliano helped the Stars reach the Stanley Cup Final in 2020 and was part of Anaheim’s runs to the Western Conference Final in 2015 and 2017. Cogliano’s 1,294 games ranked ninth among active skaters upon retirement while his 22 career shorthanded goals were second to only Brad Marchand (36).

 

Cogliano played two seasons at the University of Michigan from 2005-07, recording 78 points (36g/42a) in 77 games and was named to the 2006 CCHA All-Rookie Team. Internationally, he helped Team Canada capture gold at both the 2006 and 2007 IIHF World Junior Championships.

 

Andrew resides in Denver with his wife, Allie, and three daughters, Lottie, Olive and Poppy.

In addition to overseeing the organization's communications and media relations efforts, McNicholas' role includes coordinating individual player appearances and team events, handling tickets for the players and their families and working as a liaison with the team charter, bus companies and hotels. His previous duties have also included overseeing the team's official website and social media efforts.

 

McNicholas' career has included working in the front office for an MLB, NHL and NFL team, as well as two NCAA Division I athletic departments. He has staffed All-Star Games in three of the four major sports, as well as a Stanley Cup Final, three AFC Championship games, the NLCS and NLDS, as well as numerous NCAA championships, bowl games and conference championships.

 

Prior to joining the Avalanche, McNicholas, 45, spent five seasons with the Colorado Rockies Public Relations Department as a coordinator and manager. He worked as one of the team's primary media contacts while also serving as the writer, editor and designer of the team's annual media guide, postseason media guide and draft prospectus.

 

A graduate of the University of Colorado, the Denver native worked all four years as a student in the school's sports information office, which included a promotion to Graduate Assistant SID during his junior year in 1999. He mainly worked with the nationally-ranked football team during his years in Boulder but also served as the SID for the 1998 and 1999 NCAA championship ski team.

 

While a student at CU, McNicholas interned for the Denver Broncos Media Relations Department in 1999 and has continued to work for the Broncos as a statistician or spotter for network television and radio broadcasts.

 

Throughout his college career, McNicholas also did internships with the University of Denver Athletic Media Relations Office, the 2000 INTERNATIONAL PGA Tour event and worked as a freelance writer for The Associated Press and The Colorado Daily.

 

McNicholas is a graduate of Regis Jesuit High School in Aurora. Brendan and his wife, Eimear, have a son, Caoimhin (8), and daughter, Fiadh (4).