@Avalanche More dumb comments from the dumb AVS fans. Good pick Mr. Sakic.
The @Avalanche could go undefeated and win The Cup and these fools would still bitch.
You don’t deserve this team or its leadership. Go root for another team, please.
As per ChatGPT….
Egor Shilov is one of the Colorado Avalanche’s newest prospects, selected 43rd overall in the second round of the 2026 NHL Draft. He projects as a skilled, playmaking center with legitimate top-six offensive upside.
Player profile
Position: Center
Shoots: Left
Height/Weight: 6’1”, 176 lbs
Born: April 30, 2008 (Tyumen, Russia)
2025–26 Team: Victoriaville Tigres (QMJHL)
College commitment: Penn State (future)
2025–26 season
He had an outstanding draft year:
63 games
32 goals
50 assists
82 points
54.8% on faceoffs
Those numbers made him one of the highest-scoring first-year players in the QMJHL.
Strengths
Scouts love his:
Elite hockey IQ
High-end vision and passing
Soft hands in traffic
Power-play quarterback instincts
Ability to slow the game down and create offense
He’s considered more of a playmaker than a pure sniper, but he has an accurate wrist shot when he chooses to use it.
Weaknesses
The biggest concerns are:
Skating explosiveness
Top-end speed
Sometimes plays too much on the perimeter instead of attacking inside
If those areas improve, his ceiling rises considerably.
What Avalanche fans should expect
This isn’t a player who is likely to make the NHL next season. The expected path is:
Another season in junior hockey.
Time at Penn State.
AHL development.
NHL arrival in roughly 3–5 years, depending on his progress.
For the Avalanche, this is the kind of swing that has paid off before: draft a highly skilled player whose biggest flaw (skating) is one of the more coachable aspects of the game. If he adds another step to his skating, many scouts believe he has the talent to become a top-six NHL center rather than just a depth forward.
Now, let’s do some hypotheticals. If one has faith in God, and the flood was triggered by God, it’s reasonable to accept some type of miracle. So IF it was possible, and IF it occurred, what would happen to the earth?
If we suspend what we know about geology and imagine that all of the water stored deep within the Earth’s mantle were somehow extracted and brought to the surface by an unknown mechanism, the consequences would be extraordinary.
Here’s what would likely happen:
The surface would flood dramatically.
If the amount released were comparable to one or more ocean volumes, sea level could rise by thousands of feet. Many continents would be submerged, although the tallest mountain ranges might still remain above water depending on the total volume.
The mantle would change physically.
Water lowers the melting temperature of mantle rocks and influences how they flow. Removing a large fraction of that water would make parts of the mantle stiffer and change the behavior of plate tectonics over time.
Volcanism and earthquakes would likely change.
Water helps generate magma in subduction zones. A suddenly “dried out” mantle could drastically alter volcanic activity and tectonic processes. The exact outcome is difficult to predict because nothing comparable has ever been observed.
The crust would experience enormous stress.
Adding the weight of vast new oceans while simultaneously changing the properties of the mantle would likely trigger widespread earthquakes and crustal adjustment. Continents would slowly sink somewhat under the extra water load, while ocean basins would also deform.
The planet’s climate would be transformed.
More ocean area means much higher evaporation, more cloud cover, heavier rainfall, and different ocean currents. Global temperatures and weather patterns would likely change dramatically.
If the water later disappeared back underground just as quickly…
The reverse process would be just as catastrophic. Coastlines would retreat by miles, the crust would rebound as the immense water load was removed, and major fault systems would likely reactivate.
Could an “unknown means” avoid these problems?
If by “unknown means” you mean a process outside current physics—something that could create, move, or remove water without obeying the known constraints of geology—then science can’t really evaluate it. Science can only analyze mechanisms consistent with observed physical laws.
So, under known physics, extracting mantle water on that scale would almost certainly leave unmistakable evidence:
global rock deformation,
massive tectonic changes,
unusual volcanic signatures,
and a clear geologic record.
Those kinds of signatures have not been found.
If you’re asking from a theological perspective, some believers would say the flood involved miraculous intervention rather than natural processes, in which case it falls outside what geology can test or confirm. From a scientific standpoint, though, such an event would require processes that are not part of our current understanding of Earth.