{"id":767807,"date":"2026-06-29T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767807\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T00:36:08","slug":"predators-sign-recently-acquired-jack-drury-to-five-year-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/767807\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators sign recently acquired Jack Drury to five-year contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Predators signed Drury to a five-year contract on Sunday, which carries a $4.5 million annual-average value, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PredsNHL\/status\/2071356884133543962?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">per a team announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drury was scheduled to become a restricted free agent on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville traded Fedor Svechkov and Zachary L&#8217;Heureux to Colorado on Thursday for a package made up of Drury, Chase Bradley and a 2029 third-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Drury recorded 27 points (10 goals and 17 assists) in 82 games last season, adding three goals and two assists in 13 playoff games with the Avalanche.<\/p>\n<p>Drafted 42nd overall in 2018 by the Carolina Hurricanes, Drury spent parts of four seasons with their organization before being traded to Colorado in January 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Across 268 career NHL games, he has 82 points (30 goals and 52 assists).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Predators signed Drury to a five-year contract on Sunday, which carries a $4.5 million annual-average value, per&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":767808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-767807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=767807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/767808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=767807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=767807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=767807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}