The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club announced this evening that the organization had concluded an exchange of three teams with the Hurricanes of Caroline and the Blackhawks of Chicago. The avalanche acquired attackers Martin Nécas And Jack DruryAs well as a second round choice at the NHL recovery 2025 and a fourth round choice at the NHL Hurricanes Hurricans 2026. In exchange, Colorado has exchanged in the long term Mikko Rantanen To the Blackhawks for the attacker Nils Juntorp. To finalize the agreement, Carolina acquired Rantanen and Taylor room From Chicago in exchange for the sending of Juntorp by the Colorado to the Hurricanes. Chicago also received its own choice of third round for 2025 as part of the agreement, previously acquired by Caroline.
Necas, 26, leads the Hurricanes with 55 points (16b/39a) in 49 games, which places him on an equal place in the race for the NHL markers (up to January 23 matches). His 39 assists also conduct the club and place it in the NHL seventh. Twenty-two (22) of its 55 points were marked in digital advantage, which places it on a tie in fifth row among all the players in terms of PP scoring. He shares the club’s head with five winning goals.
Necas was appointed first NHL star for November after leading all skaters with 22 points (7b/15A) in 15 games during the month. He experienced a sequence of 13 consecutive games with at least one career summit from October 22 to November 22. 17, during which he scored his 100th goal in the NHL on October 24 in Calgary.
Selected by Caroline in the first round (12th in total) of the NHL 2017 draft, Necas participated in its sixth full season in the NHL in 2024-2025. He recorded 298 points (113b/185a) in 411 career games, all with the Hurricanes. The 6 -inch 6 -inch and 195 pound center center added 30 points (11g/19A) in 59 career games from the Stanley Cup qualifiers.
Necas collected 53 points (24b/29a) in 77 games for Caroline last season, placing it equally in the third row of the team for points and fourth row for goals. This effort follows a 71-point campaign (28g/43a), better in career and at the top of the team, in 2022-23. He participated in 82 games during the 2022-23 season and co-edited the team for decisive passes while finishing second for goals. He scored a franchise record in a single season, four goals in overtime in 2022-23 (which has been on a par), good for a part of the head of the league (David Pastrnak). He also became the sixth player in NHL history to score three last-minute equalizing goals in a single season and the first to accomplish this feat since 2006-07.
During its first full season in the NHL in 2019-2020, Necas collected 36 points (16g/20a) in 64 games, ranking fourth among the NHL recruits for goals, seventh for points and tied to Sixth for the assists. He then led the team with a note more/less than +25 in 2020-2021, while ranking among the League leaders for numerical inferiority (2) and the prolongers’ winners (2).
Necas made his NHL debut on October 17, 2017, his only match that season before returning to HC Kometa Brno in the Czech Extraliga. He played seven games the following season (2018-19), including his first NHL goal on October 16, 2018 in Tampa Bay. Necas passed the rest of the 2018-19 campaign with the Charlotte Checkers, where he collected 52 points (16g/36a) in 64 regular season games and 13 points (5b/8a) in 18 eliminatory games to help the checkers Win the Calder. Cup.
Originally from November Mesto Na Morave, in Czech Republic, Necas represented his country at the Junior World Championships in the IIHF 2017, 2018 and 2019 as well as at the 2018 IIHF World Championships and 2024, winning gold in 2024.
Drury, 24, played 39 games with the Hurricanes in 2024-2025 and scored nine points (3b/6a). The Caroline has a 6-2-0 sheet when she found the match sheet this season. Drury missed 10 games earlier this season due to an upper body injury, but he participated in the 11 Caroline games since his activation outside the injured reserve on January 3. During her 39 games with Caroline, Drury won 58.8 % of her players against the Hurricanes (min. 400 draws).
Selected by the Hurricanes in the second round (42nd in total) of the NHL 2018 draft, Drury collected 46 points (15b/31A) in 153 regular seasonal games in the NHL, all with Caroline. The 5 -foot center 11 inches and 186 pounds added eight points (1g/7a) in 24 career games from the Stanley Cup qualifiers. In 2023-2024, Drury established careers in a single season in matches (74), goals (8) and assists (19).
Originally from New York, New York, Drury played 105 regular season games for the Chicago Wolves, then affiliated to the Hurricanes of the AHL, during a part of the 2021-23 campaigns. He collected 76 points (31g/45a) during this period and added 24 points (9G/15A) in 18 playoffs while the Wolves won the Calder 2022 Cup. During this eliminatory series, Drury led the AHL recruits for goals and assists.
DRURY competed for the SHL Vaxjo Lakers during the 2020-21 campaign and also helped them win a league championship. After a regular season where he collected 30 points (10b/20a) in 41 games, Drury then compiled 11 points (5g/6a) in 14 SHL qualifying games and scored the decisive goal of the SHL championship along the way .
Before becoming a professional, Drury played two seasons for Harvard University from 2018 to 2020 and participated in 100 competitions with the Black Hawks of Waterloo from the USHL from 2016 to 2018.
On the international scene, Drury contributed for the American team to the IIHF 2021 world championship as well as to the World Junior Championship of IIHF 2019 and 2020. He won bronze for stars and stripes in the world championship and ‘Money at the event of the under 20s of 2019.
Drury’s uncle is Chris Drury, who spent four seasons with the Avalanche (1998-02), was a member of the Stanley Cup champion team in 2001 and is the current managing director of New York Rangers .
Rantanen, 28, was selected by Colorado in the first round (10th in total) of the NHL 2015 draft and spent his entire career of nine seasons in the NHL with the avalanche. He recorded 681 points (287g/394a) in 619 career games, ranking him seventh on the list of all time of the franchise for points and assists and sixth for goals. He also collected 101 points (34b/67a) in 81 playoffs and helped the avalanche to win the Stanley 2022 Cup.
