NHL trade sends AHL goalies Isak Posch and Magnus Chrona elsewhere
Nashville’s swap for Ross Colton also flipped two AHL crease charts, sending Isak Posch into the Predators system and Magnus Chrona to Colorado.
The biggest hockey move of the week for AHL eyes was a crease shuffle disguised as an NHL trade. Nashville landed Ross Colton and goaltender Isak Posch from Colorado for a 2026 third-round pick, a 2027 third-round pick and goaltender Magnus Chrona, and the immediate impact lands on the American Hockey League depth charts in Milwaukee and Colorado.
Before the deal, Colorado’s AHL picture featured a young goalie on the rise in Posch and Nashville’s pipeline held Chrona as a pending unrestricted free agent with a longer pro track record. After the trade, that picture flips. Posch, 24, leaves the Colorado Eagles after a rookie season that looked like legitimate progress, while Chrona moves into the Avalanche organization with a résumé built across Milwaukee and San Jose. For clubs trying to survive injuries and keep their AHL teams in the hunt, that is not a minor swap. It changes who gets the net when the schedule tightens and who is pushed into a backup role.
Posch’s numbers explain why Colorado valued him. He went 15-8-5 with a 2.78 goals-against average and an .891 save percentage in 28 games for the Eagles in 2025-26, then earned an invitation to the 2026 AHL All-Star Classic. At the 2026 AHL All-Star Challenge in Rockford, Illinois, he backed that up by leading all goaltenders with 12 saves on 13 shots. That kind of first-year North American season usually buys a goalie more runway, not a move, which is why Nashville now gets a young netminder whose stock was climbing.
Chrona’s profile is different. He was 9-11-3 with a 2.94 GAA, an .894 save percentage and one shutout in 25 appearances for the Milwaukee Admirals, and his three-year AHL line sits at 27-39-14 with a 3.09 GAA and an .897 save percentage in 86 games between Milwaukee and San Jose. Nashville had previously acquired him in the August 23, 2024 Yaroslav Askarov trade, so this deal sends him back out in another organizational reset.
Colorado also gets Ross Colton, who had 24 points, a plus-9 rating, 153 shots and 159 hits in 73 games last season, while Nashville keeps adding NHL-level support to its forward mix. But the AHL takeaway is sharper: Colorado loses the goalie with the more obvious upward arrow, Milwaukee loses a veteran depth option, and both organizations will feel the first real consequences when camp opens and the crease battle starts for real.
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