{"id":505220,"date":"2026-03-05T12:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505220\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T12:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T12:36:08","slug":"blankenburg-traded-to-avalanche-by-predators-for-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/505220\/","title":{"rendered":"Blankenburg traded to Avalanche by Predators for pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/nick-blankenburg-8483565\" title=\"Nick Blankenburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Blankenburg<\/a> was traded to the Colorado Avalanche by the Nashville Predators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The 27-year-old defenseman has 21 points (six goals, 15 assists) in 49 games for the Predators this season and 55 points (16 goals, 39 assists) in 164 regular-season games with the Columbus Blue Jackets and Predators.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Blankenburg is in the second of a two-year, $1.55 million contract ($775,000 average annual value) signed with the Predators on July 1, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The Avalanche (41-10-9) lead the NHL with 91 points, six points ahead of the second-place Dallas Stars in the Central Division.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators (27-26-8) are five points behind the Seattle Kraken for the second wild card in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nick Blankenburg was traded to the Colorado Avalanche by the Nashville Predators on Wednesday for a fifth-round pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-505220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}