Colorado Avalanche steal Ryan Johansen from Predators

The Colorado Avalanche have traded a minor-league prospect for a player who has been around quite a bit longer than the former. Gone is Alex Galchenyuk to the Nashville Predators for center Ryan Johansen. Johansen has played for the Predators for the past eight seasons following a five-year run with the Columbus Blue Jackets.

Galchenyuk appeared in 11 games for the Avalanche last year and scored a grand total of zero points. Not just goals. Points. He also had a plus-minus of minus-eight.

Johansen will fill the role of second-line center as, currently, Evan Rodrigues is set to hit the open market and could end up being outside of the team’s price range, although that’s just speculation on my…