Chris Drury met with the media during the first round of the draft and said (NYR): On the Georgiev trade, “it was something we’ve been looking at and working on and trying to clear some cap space and talked to a bunch of teams and that is kind of the deal that came together today.…

Chris Drury finished third in the voting for the GM of the Year Award. Avalanche GM Joe Sakic (109 points) won the award and Tampa’s Julien BriseBois (87 points) finished second. Drury finished with 53 points (4 First Place Votes, 7 Second Place Votes, 12 Third Place Votes).

Chris Drury has been nominated for the Jim Gregory GM of the Year Award. Joe Sakic of the Avs and Julien BriesBois of Tampa are the other nominees.

Chris Drury spoke after Day 2 of the NHL Draft and said (NHL Media): Do you expect to be active heading into free agency, “obviously it’s quickly onto the next thing, I’m not going to get into specific details or plans of what is going to happen, but as I’ve continually said, we’re going to…

Chris Drury spoke late last night and said (NYR): On trading Buchnevich, “There is only so much cap space to go around, only so much ice time to go around, I feel very good about our depth at winger with some recent early draft picks we’ve had and some other veterans that we’ve signed and…