The Colorado Avalanche pulled off one of many largest offers on trade deadline day, and it’s a well-known face.
Nazem Kadri, who helped the Avs win the Stanley Cup in 2022, is returning to Colorado in a trade from the Calgary Flames. The Avs despatched a conditional 2028 first-round decide, a conditional 2027 second, prime prospect Max Curran and Victor Olofsson to the Flames for Kadri and a 2027 fourth-round choice.
Kadri signed a seven-year, $49 million contract with Calgary in August 2022. Calgary is retaining 20 % of Kadri’s contract, so the cap hit for the Avalanche will probably be $5.6 million for the following three seasons.
The 35-year-old Kadri has 12 objectives and 41 factors in 61 video games for the Flames this season. He’s led Calgary in scoring every of the earlier two seasons.
“Super excited,” Kadri mentioned on TSN’s TradeCentre 2026 present. “The team at the very top of my list. Man, I can’t wait.”
The NHL’s trade deadline is at 1 p.m. MT, however offers may be introduced later in the day so long as they have been logged in the queue with the league workplace earlier than that. General supervisor Chris MacFarland mentioned the Avs “would leave no stone unturned” forward of the deadline, and Colorado ended up being one of many busiest groups in the ultimate two days.
Kadri was the Avs’ No. 2 center from 2019-22. He had a career-high 87 factors for Colorado in the course of the 2021-22 season, plus seven objectives and 15 factors in 16 Stanley Cup Playoff video games to assist the Avalanche to its third championship in franchise historical past.
Colorado traded for another center, Nicolas Roy, the day earlier than, from the Toronto Maple Leafs. Just like final season, the Avs made a second swap on deadline day on the place. Last 12 months, the Avs added Brock Nelson after which Charlie Coyle a day later simply earlier than the deadline.
The Avalanche depth chart at middle now contains Nathan MacKinnon, Brock Nelson, Kadri, Roy and Jack Drury, to not point out Parker Kelly, Ross Colton and Zakhar Bardakov as additional choices.
Olofsson, signed to a one-year, $1.575 million deal in August, had 11 objectives and 25 factors in 60 video games for the Avs. Curran who was a fourth-round decide in the 2024 NHL draft, had develop into arguably the membership’s prime prospect in a shallow pool. Colorado now has no picks in the primary three rounds of the 2026 NHL draft, one second rounder in 2027 and a third-round choice in 2028.
The Avs even have arguably the perfect assortment of expertise and depth on the middle place in the NHL.
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