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Predators Sign Forward Jack Drury to Five-Year Contract
The Nashville Predators signed forward Jack Drury to a five-year, $22.5 million deal on Sunday night. The 26-year-old center was acquired from the Colorado Avalanche four days earlier in a trade that sent two forwards to Colorado.
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The Nashville Predators signed forward Jack Drury to a five-year contract on Sunday night, four days after acquiring him from the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for forwards Zachary L'Heureux and Fedor Svechkov and a 2029 third-round pick. ESPN reported the signing came four days after the team acquired the 26-year-old from the Colorado Avalanche.
Drury recorded a career-high 10 goals and 27 points while playing all 82 regular-season games for the Avalanche last season.
He won 58.1 percent of his faceoffs, the fifth-highest rate among players with at least 900 draws. In 13 playoff games, he added three goals and two assists as Colorado reached the Western Conference finals.
The trade occurred on Wednesday. "Jack Drury is a hard-working, reliable, full-sheet of the ice center who can handle the tough assignments while being elite in the faceoff circle," Predators general manager and president of hockey operations Chris MacFarland said after the trade.
" Drury has appeared in 268 career regular-season NHL games, recording 30 goals and 52 assists with a 57.1 percent faceoff rate.
He was selected by the Carolina Hurricanes in the second round of the 2018 draft and is the son of former NHL center Ted Drury and nephew of New York Rangers general manager Chris Drury.
