{"id":600486,"date":"2026-06-17T02:57:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/600486\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T02:57:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T02:57:11","slug":"new-predators-executive-chris-macfarland-strikes-deal-with-former-team-to-add-avs-center-ross-colton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/600486\/","title":{"rendered":"New Predators executive Chris MacFarland strikes deal with former team to add Avs center Ross Colton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"B3ZZJHDFMRBBJIFV3F47B4IXPU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">DENVER \u2014 New Nashville front-office executive <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/chris-macfarland-nashville-predators-f5b6a1cda339d1386e749bfa47e27506\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris MacFarland<\/a> didn\u2019t take long to strike a deal with his former team in trading for Colorado forward <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lightning-trade-ross-colton-avalanche-24d079f5332e5d97c2c13323e03eec61\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ross Colton<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"Q57QQ7EHFNDLNBQ22KIBZZDWU4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">MacFarland, who recently left his role as Avalanche GM to become the president of hockey operations\/general manager of the Predators, acquired the veteran center along with goaltender Isak Posch. Colorado receives goalie Magnus Chrona and a pair of third-round picks (2026, \u201827).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 New Nashville front-office executive Chris MacFarland didn\u2019t take long to strike a deal with his former&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5116],"tags":[57487,193,192,144,5277,66690,5,4,57484,39240,292,57485,106,57486,2960,43,104],"class_list":["post-600486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-colorado-avalanche","tag-2026-nhl-schedule","tag-avalanche","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-coloradoavalanche","tag-hkn-avalanche-predators-trade","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-2026-news","tag-nhl-highlights","tag-nhl-hockey","tag-nhl-latest-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-schedule-2026","tag-nhl-scores","tag-sports","tag-stanley-cup-playoffs"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116763206892405082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600486","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=600486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}