{"id":900196,"date":"2026-06-29T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/900196\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T06:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:19:15","slug":"predators-sign-jack-drury-to-five-year-deal-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/900196\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators Sign Jack Drury To Five-Year Deal \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Predators GM Chris MacFarland didn\u2019t waste much time acquiring a player he was familiar with, swinging a trade<\/a> for Jack Drury<\/a><\/strong> earlier this week.\u00a0 He has wasted little time signing him as well.\u00a0 PuckPedia reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that Nashville has signed the center to a five-year, $22.5MM contract.\u00a0 The breakdown of the agreement is as follows:<\/p>\n\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\nNHL Salary<\/strong><\/td>\nSigning Bonus<\/strong><\/td>\nTrade Protection<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2026-27<\/td>\n$4MM<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\nN\/A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2027-28<\/td>\n$4.625MM<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\nFull NTC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2028-29<\/td>\n$4.625MM<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\nFull NTC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2029-30<\/td>\n$4.625MM<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n8-team NTC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2030-31<\/td>\n$4.625MM<\/td>\n$0<\/td>\n8-Team NTC<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

The 26-year-old is coming off matching his career high offensively in terms of points.\u00a0 He potted a career-best 10 goals this past season along with 17 assists in Colorado while playing in all 82 games.\u00a0 Drury was also quite successful at the faceoff dot, winning 58.1% of his draws, also a personal best.\u00a0 In the postseason, he fared relatively well, collecting three goals and two assists in 13 games for the Avalanche while winning more than 61% of his draws.<\/p>\n

That performance was good enough for Nashville to part with a pair of decent young players in winger Zachary L\u2019Heureux<\/a><\/strong> and center Fedor Svechkov<\/a><\/strong> to land Drury, forward Chase Bradley<\/a><\/strong>, and a 2029 third-round pick.\u00a0 Considering that both L\u2019Heureux and Svechkov were first-round picks in 2021, it was a sign that MacFarland felt very strongly that Drury has another level to get to relative to the limited offensive numbers he has put up so far in his five-year career. Drury has posted 30 goals and 52 assists in 268 games between Carolina and Colorado so far.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that this contract also cements that expectation.\u00a0 AFP Analytics projected<\/a> a three-year deal worth around $2.9MM per season, a price tag that this deal beats considerably in terms of money and term.\u00a0 In doing so, they buy four extra years of team control as he would have been a restricted free agent with salary arbitration rights on Wednesday had this deal not been signed.\u00a0 Since next season is an RFA year, he was not eligible for any trade protection for that year.<\/p>\n

Nashville now has just under $20MM in remaining salary cap space, per PuckPedia<\/a>.\u00a0 Defenseman Justin Barron<\/a><\/strong> is their only full-time NHL restricted free agent on the roster while center Erik Haula<\/a><\/strong> is their most prominent pending unrestricted free agent.\u00a0 Even with this signing, the Predators have ample cap space to try to get back into the playoff picture next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Predators GM Chris MacFarland didn\u2019t waste much time acquiring a player he was familiar with, swinging a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":890383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[42],"tags":[237907,3111,1649,293,62,1650,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-900196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-jack-drury","tag-nashville-predators","tag-newsstand","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-transactions","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116831949108440311","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}