{"id":520900,"date":"2026-03-05T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520900\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T19:20:07","slug":"roy-traded-to-avalanche-by-maple-leafs-for-2-draft-picks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/520900\/","title":{"rendered":"Roy traded to Avalanche by Maple Leafs for 2 draft picks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fourth round (No. 96) of the 2015 NHL Draft, Roy has 186 points (73 goals, 113 assists) in 428 regular-season games for the Hurricanes, Golden Knights and Maple Leafs, and 32 points (10 goals, 22 assists) in 79 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n<p>He won the Cup with the Golden Knights in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche (41-10-9) are first in the\u00a0NHL standings and six points ahead of the Dallas Stars for first in the Central Division. They visit the Stars on Friday (8 p.m. ET; Victory+, ALT).<\/p>\n<p>The Maple Leafs (27-24-11) are seventh in the Atlantic Division, eight points behind the Boston Bruins, who hold the second wild card in the East, and have played two more games.<\/p>\n<p>In the event that the Avalanche&#8217;s 2027 first-round selection is in the top 10, they will send their unprotected 2028 first-round pick to the Maple Leafs. Colorado currently holds three fifth-round selections in the 2026 Draft; the lowest of those three picks will be transferred to Toronto as part of the trade.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Avalanche <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/news\/nick-blankenburg-traded-to-colorado-avalanche-by-nashville-predators\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">acquired defenseman\u00a0Nick Blankenberg from the Nashville Predators<\/a> for a fifth-round pick in the 2027 draft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the fourth round (No. 96) of the 2015 NHL Draft, Roy has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-520900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}