Avalanche Acquire Nicolas Roy | Colorado Avalanche
DENVER – The Colorado Avalanche Hockey Club introduced in the present day the staff has acquired ahead Nicolas Roy (pronounced WAH) from the Toronto Maple Leafs in alternate for a conditional first-round draft choose in 2027 and a conditional fifth-round draft choose in 2026.
Roy29, was in his first 12 months with the Maple Leafs and involves the Avalanche having recorded 20 factors (5g/15a) in 59 video games in 2025-26. He’s additionally received 52.9% of his face-offs on a Maple Leafs staff that enters in the present day pacing the circuit at 55.9%. This season, Roy skated in his four-hundredth profession sport on Dec. 20 at Nashville and notched his a centesimal profession help on Oct. 24 at Buffalo.
The 6-foot-4, 200-pound middle has competed in 428 profession regular-season video games and recorded 186 factors (73g/113a) with the Maple Leafs, Vegas Golden Knights and Carolina Hurricanes from 2017-26. He’s spent the majority of his NHL profession with the Golden Knights (2019-25) the place he posted his single-season career-highs for targets with 15 (2021-22 and 2024-25) in addition to his 28 assists and 41 factors in 2023-24. Roy has produced 30-plus factors 4 instances in his profession, all of which occurred within the earlier 4 campaigns coming into 2025-26.
In postseason play, Roy has recorded 32 factors (10g/22a) in 79 Stanley Cup Playoff contests. He’s performed on 5 totally different groups which have certified for the playoffs, all with Vegas, together with every of the final three seasons and was within the lineup for every sport the Golden Knights contested in throughout that span. Roy suited up in 22 video games for the Golden Knights in 2023 and chipped in 11 factors (3g/8a) en path to capturing the Stanley Cup. During the 2021 playoff run, Roy set personal-bests for targets (4), game-winning targets (2) and face-off share (56.9%).
Roy additionally received the 2019 Calder Cup Championship with the Charlotte Checkers the place he was teammates with Martin Necas. The centerman recorded 15 factors (6g/9a) in 19 postseason contests that spring. In his American Hockey League profession, Roy tallied 96 factors (35g/61a) in 168 regular-season video games over elements of the 2015-16 and 2017-20 seasons with Charlotte and the Chicago Wolves. He additionally picked up 18 factors (6g/12a) in 27 playoff showings.
Prior to turning professional, Roy spent 4 seasons within the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2013-17 with the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, serving as staff captain throughout his remaining season. He collected 261 factors (116g/145a) in 247 profession QMJHL video games with Chicoutimi and was chosen to the 2015-16 First All-Star Team when he paced the league in targets (48). He adopted that up incomes First All-Star Team honors once more the subsequent season in addition to profitable the Guy Carbonneau Trophy because the league’s finest defensive ahead. Roy totaled 35 factors (13g/22a) throughout 32 profession postseason video games, profitable the QMJHL Gold Cup championship in 2012-13.
Internationally, the Amos, Quebec, native represented his nation on the 2022 IIHF World Championship and the 2017 IIHF World Junior Championship, incomes silver at each occasions. He additionally took residence a bronze medal on the 2015 IIHF Under-18 World Championship.
Roy was initially drafted by the Hurricanes within the fourth spherical (96th total) within the 2015 NHL Draft.
