{"id":487647,"date":"2026-03-05T20:41:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487647\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T20:41:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T20:41:12","slug":"toronto-maple-leafs-send-nicolas-roy-to-colorado-avalanche-for-conditional-first-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/487647\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto Maple Leafs send Nicolas Roy to Colorado Avalanche for conditional first-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

TORONTO \u2014 The Maple Leafs have made a move ahead of the NHL trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Toronto dealt centre Nicolas Roy<\/a> to the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> on Thursday for a conditional first-round pick at the 2027 draft along with a fifth-rounder in June.<\/p>\n

In the event the first-round selection falls inside the top-10, the Avalanche would instead send the Maple Leafs their unprotected first-rounder in 2028. Toronto also gets the lowest of Colorado\u2019s three picks in the fifth round of the 2026 draft as part of the swap.<\/p>\n

The trade signals the first of a series of moves expected ahead of Friday\u2019s 3 p.m. cutoff by the Maple Leafs, who have woefully underperformed this season and are a long-shot to make the playoffs after nine straight appearances.<\/p>\n

Roy had five goals and 15 assists for 20 points in 59 games with the Maple Leafs after joining the club as part of a sign-and-trade deal with the Vegas Golden Knights<\/a> in the off-season.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old from Amos, Que., who carries a salary cap hit of US$3 million through the 2026-27 season, has put up 186 points (73 goals, 113 assists) in 428 games with the Carolina Hurricanes<\/a>, Golden Knights and Maple Leafs.<\/p>\n

Selected with the 96th pick at the 2015 draft, Roy won the Stanley Cup with Vegas in 2023 as part of a playoff career that has produced 32 points (10 goals, 22 assists) in 79 contests.<\/p>\n

This report by The Canadian Press was first published March 5, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TORONTO \u2014 The Maple Leafs have made a move ahead of the NHL trade deadline. Toronto dealt centre…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33752,5,4,58051,32467],"class_list":{"0":"post-487647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-21","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-nicolas-roy-sports-hockey-player-player-nhl-api-8478462","12":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-10"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116178510572010009","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487647","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=487647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}