{"id":486798,"date":"2026-03-05T11:01:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486798\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T11:01:23","slug":"avalanches-nick-blankenburg-flipped-to-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/486798\/","title":{"rendered":"Avalanche&#8217;s Nick Blankenburg: Flipped to Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/COL\/colorado-avalanche\/\" aria-label=\"home team page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"TeamLogo-image\" alt=\"team logo\" src=\"https:\/\/sports.cbsimg.net\/fly\/images\/team-logos\/378.svg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                                                <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/players\/28851236\/blankenburg\/fantasy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blankenburg<\/a> was traded to the <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nhl\/teams\/COL\/colorado-avalanche\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Avalanche<\/a> from the Predators on Wednesday in exchange for a 2027 fifth-round pick.<\/p>\n<p>Blankenburg had a career-high 21 points in just 49 outings for the Predators this season. Considering he&#8217;s just 27 years old, it&#8217;s a little surprising Nashville wanted to part ways with him for such a low return. Blankenburg may not play regularly with the Avalanche due to the team&#8217;s depth on the blue line.\u00a0Ryan Ufko or Jordan Oesterle could get looks with the Predators with Blankenburg out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>        More News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blankenburg was traded to the Avalanche from the Predators on Wednesday in exchange for a 2027 fifth-round pick.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[193,192,144,5277,276,5,4,19340],"class_list":{"0":"post-486798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-colorado-avalanche","8":"tag-avalanche","9":"tag-colorado","10":"tag-colorado-avalanche","11":"tag-coloradoavalanche","12":"tag-fantasy-hockey","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nick-blankenburg"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116176230355318288","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}