The Colorado Avalanche traded Charlie Coyle and Miles Wood to the Columbus Blue Jackets on Friday. Columbus [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/columbus-blue-jackets] traded prospect Gavin Brindley, a third-round pick (77th overall) in the 2025 NHL draft and a conditional 2027 second-rounder. The Avalanche [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/colorado-avalanche] clear $7.75 million of salary cap space and get assets in return, while the Blue Jackets add multiple veterans for depth as they look to take the next step in 2025-26. "We are very excited to welcome Charlie Coyle and Miles Wood to the Columbus Blue Jackets family," Blue Jackets GM Don Waddell said in a news release [https://www.nhl.com/bluejackets/news/blue-jackets-acquire-forwards-charlie-coyle-miles-wood-colorado]. "Charlie is an experienced, two-way player that adds size and versatility to our group, while Miles is one of the fastest skaters in the NHL who provides great energy and physicality. "Beyond being outstanding players, both are high-character people who will fit in perfectly with our group and what we are building here in Columbus." Charlie Coyle (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images) [https://deweb-519a7.b-cdn.net/post-images/fc1ae27f-ce9d-447e-9689-718126c5215b.jpeg] Charlie Coyle (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images) Coyle, 33, had 17 goals and 35 points in 83 games this past season. The Boston Bruins [https://thehockeynews.com/nhl/boston-bruins] traded him to the Avalanche at the NHL trade deadline. He's entering the final season of a six-year contract carrying a $5.25-million cap hit. In 2023-24, Coyle had a career-high 60 points with the Bruins while averaging 18:04 in ice time. Wood, 29, recorded four goals and eight points in 37 games. He has four seasons left on a six-year contract worth $2.5 million annually. He dealt with an upper-body injury that kept him out of the lineup for nearly two months. When healthy, he provides depth scoring and some physicality, recording a career-high 107 hits in 2023-24. Brindley (34th overall in 2023), played his first pro season with the AHL [https://thehockeynews.com/ahl]'s Cleveland Monsters. The 20-year-old right winger had six goals and 17 points in 52 games. In 2023-24, he was the NCAA [https://thehockeynews.com/ncaa]'s Big Ten player of the year with 25 goals and 53 points in 40 games for the University of Michigan, and he won gold at the world juniors with Team USA. He's entering the third year of his entry-level contract with a $950,000 cap hit. The Avalanche now have $8.95 million in projected cap space and three picks in this weekend's draft – the third-rounder they just received, a fourth-rounder and a seventh-rounder – according to PuckPedia [https://puckpedia.com/team/colorado-avalanche]. The Blue Jackets, meanwhile, still have seven picks in the 2025 NHL draft, including two first-rounders. After that, they don't have a selection until the fourth round. They have more than $32.6 million in projected cap space. [https://puckpedia.com/team/columbus-blue-jackets] Get the latest news and trending stories by following The Hockey News on Google News [https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMK-q0gsw7sXpAw?hl=en-CA&gl=CA&ceid=CA%3Aen] and by subscribing to The Hockey News newsletter here [http://eepurl.com/i7OC4I]. And share your thoughts by commenting below the article on THN.com.
