Avalanche promote Andrew Cogliano to assistant general manager
Two years after retiring as a player, the 2022 Stanley Cup winner moves up in Colorado's front office to work alongside Joe Sakic.
Andrew Cogliano has a new title in Denver. The Colorado Avalanche announced on Sept. 29 that the former forward has been named assistant general manager, where he will assist president of hockey operations and general manager Joe Sakic across the club's hockey operations.
Cogliano, 39, spent the past two seasons as special assistant to the general manager. In that job, the Toronto native worked in player development, professional and amateur scouting, and with the American Hockey League's Colorado Eagles. Both the Avalanche and the Eagles made their league playoffs in 2024-25 and 2025-26, and both reached the Western Conference final last spring.
"We're extremely lucky to have 'Cogs' in the front office, and he's been a key member of our staff since he decided to retire as a player," Sakic said. "We're excited to give him more responsibility and make more meaningful contributions toward building and sustaining championship-contending teams in all levels of our organization."
Cogliano said the move into management has gone as well as he could have hoped.
"This second career has gone as well as I could have hoped when I decided it was time to move on from playing the game, and I'm excited to keep working toward our goal of winning another Stanley Cup," he said.
He retired on June 21, 2024, after 17 NHL seasons. The Edmonton Oilers took him 25th overall in 2005, and he went on to play 1,294 regular-season games with Edmonton, Anaheim, Dallas, San Jose and Colorado, scoring 190 goals and 464 points.
Durability was his calling card. Cogliano opened his career with an 830-game ironman streak that ran from Oct. 4, 2007, to Jan. 13, 2018. He and Doug Jarvis are the only players to appear in 800-plus consecutive games from the start of their careers.
Colorado acquired him at the trade deadline on March 21, 2022, and three months later he lifted the Stanley Cup after the Avalanche beat Tampa Bay in the final. He played 172 regular-season games for Colorado over his time with the club.
