Will Avs make any trades on deadline day?

The Avalanche’s leading scorer isn’t on Twitter, so if the Avs add another scorer to help him out, he won’t be the first to know. Or the second, or third, or 500th, probably.

“Sometimes (trades) pop into the news, probably a little bit later than on Twitter,” Mikko Rantanen said. “Or I hear from other guys on the team.”

Still, he admits, NHL trade deadline week can a fun time of year even for those who don’t sit around refreshing their phones.

“I’ve got to say,” Rantanen said, “it’s a little bit exciting.”

Wednesday was a quintessential example of the whirlwind. Rantanen and his teammates had just gotten off the ice from morning skate when they learned about the organization’s biggest trade so far.

But they didn’t meet their new third- line center until they were back on the ice, in uniform, about to play a game. Lars Eller arrived at Ball Arena around 6:15 from the airport and had a quick introductory conversation with coach Jared Bednar on his way in.

“I asked him, ‘Hey listen, you feeling good? Do you want to play? If you’re not, it’s not going to affect my opinion of you,” Bednar said later. “And he felt good and wanted to play.”

So Eller threw on a uniform and joined the already-warming-up Avalanche on the ice. He had no prior connections to any of his new teammates.

“It’s been a weird day,” he said.

Eller was about to board the Capitals’ team bus to morning skate in Anaheim when he received the call that he was traded. He talked with Avalanche president of hockey operations Joe Sakic and general manager Chris Macfarland, both of whom asked him the same thing as Bednar: Any interest in debuting right away? “Yeah, absolutely,” he told them.

His excitement level was still high, even after a mentally and physically exhausting 7- 5 loss to New Jersey.

“I knew I was one of the guys ( Washington) had available to move,” Eller said. “There were

a bunch of teams interested. I was kind of hoping it was going to be here.”

His addition plugs a hole that Colorado needed to patch: depth in the middle of the ice and faceoff capabilities eclipsing 50%. ( Eller is 54.5%.)

He’s not a scorer, however. So there remains a defensible case that he’s not enough and Colorado needs more — whether that’s a second-line center, a goal-producing wing to aid Rantanen, or another

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