{"id":877018,"date":"2026-10-10T03:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877018\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T03:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T03:10:13","slug":"struble-traded-to-predators-by-canadiens-for-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/877018\/","title":{"rendered":"Struble traded to Predators by Canadiens for draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/jayden-struble-8481593\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jayden Struble<\/a> was traded to the Nashville Predators by the Montreal Canadiens on Friday for a second-round pick in the 2027 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jayden Struble is a 25-year-old physical defender who will add mobility and a hard-to-play against quality that will help our backend,\u201d Predators president of hockey operations and general manager Chris MacFarland said. &#8220;We are excited to watch his growth and look forward to him being a player who can grow with us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The defenseman is in the second season of a two-year, $2.825 million contract ($1.4125 million average annual value) he signed July 28, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Struble, who was in his fourth season with the Canadiens, has no points in three games and is averaging a career-low 12:05 of ice time per game. Selected by Montreal in the second round (No. 46) of the 2019 NHL Draft, he has 35 points (seven goals, 28 assists) in 174 regular-season games and no points in 14 Stanley Cup Playoff games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jayden Struble was traded to the Nashville Predators by the Montreal Canadiens on Friday for a second-round pick&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-877018","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\/877018","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=877018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}