Editing Colorado Avalanche (section)

==Honored members==
{{see also|List of Colorado Avalanche players|List of Colorado Avalanche award winners}}

===Retired numbers===
[[File:AvalancheRetiredJerseys.jpg|thumb|Three of the six banners for numbers retired by the Colorado Avalanche hanging at [[Ball Arena]].]]
In addition to those below, the NHL retired [[Wayne Gretzky]]'s No. 99 for all its member teams at the [[50th National Hockey League All-Star Game|2000 NHL All-Star Game]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Perfect setting: Gretzky's number retired before All-Star Game |publisher=CNN Sports Illustrated. Associated Press |date=February 6, 2000 |url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/2000/nhl_allstar/news/2000/02/06/gretsky_99/ |access-date=June 9, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112022319/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/hockey/nhl/2000/nhl_allstar/news/2000/02/06/gretsky_99/ |archive-date=November 12, 2013}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
|+ style="background:#FFFFFF;border-top:#8A2432 5px solid;border-bottom:#236093 5px solid;" | Colorado Avalanche retired numbers
|-
! width=40px | No.
! width=130px |Player
! width=40px |Position
! width=150px |Career
! width=150px |No. retirement
|-
| '''19''' || [[Joe Sakic]] <sup>1</sup> || [[Center (ice hockey)|C]] || 1995–2009 || data-sort-value="2009-10-01"| October 1, 2009
|-
| '''21''' || [[Peter Forsberg]] || [[Center (ice hockey)|C]] || 1995–2004<br />2008, 2011 || data-sort-value="2011-10-08"| October 8, 2011
|-
| '''23''' || [[Milan Hejduk]] || [[Winger (ice hockey)|RW]] || 1998–2013 || data-sort-value="2018-01-06"| January 6, 2018
|-
| '''33''' || [[Patrick Roy]] || [[Goaltender|G]] || 1995–2003 || data-sort-value="2003-10-28"| October 28, 2003
|-
| '''52''' || [[Adam Foote]] || [[Defenceman|D]] || 1995–2004<br />2008–2011 || data-sort-value="2013-11-02"| November 2, 2013
|-
| '''77''' || [[Ray Bourque]] || [[Defenceman|D]] || 2000–2001 || data-sort-value="2001-11-24"| November 24, 2001
|}
'''Notes:'''
* <sup>1</sup> The banner features the captain "C" to honor his eighteen years as team captain with both the Avalanche and predecessor Nordiques.

The numbers retired when the franchise was in Quebec – [[J. C. Tremblay]]'s No. 3, [[Marc Tardif]]'s No. 8, [[Michel Goulet]]'s No. 16 and [[Peter Šťastný|Peter Stastny]]'s No. 26 – were entered back into circulation after the move to Colorado.

===Hall of Famers===
The Colorado Avalanche hold an affiliation with a number of inductees to the [[Hockey Hall of Fame]]. Eleven inductees from the players category of the Hall of Fame are affiliated with the Avalanche. Of those eleven, Forsberg, Roy, and Sakic earned their credentials primarily with the Avalanche.

'''Players'''
{{Columns-list|colwidth=25em|
* [[Dave Andreychuk]]
* [[Rob Blake]]
* [[Ray Bourque]]
* [[Peter Forsberg]]
* [[Jarome Iginla]]
* [[Paul Kariya]]
* [[Jari Kurri]]
* [[Patrick Roy]]
* [[Joe Sakic]]
* [[Teemu Selänne|Teemu Selanne]]
* [[Pierre Turgeon]]
}}

'''Builders'''
* [[Pierre Lacroix (ice hockey, born 1948)|Pierre Lacroix]]