The defending champion of the West Conference, Edmonton Oilers, made his first great movement ahead of The NHL trade deadline When acquiring the hard nose striker, Trent Frederic from the Boston Bruins, Tuesday.
Edmonton sent a selection of the second round of 2025 and 2026 and the Max Wanner Prospect to Boston for the 6 -foot salary 3 and 220 pounds, with the Bruins retaining half of the salary of $ 2.3 million of Frederic. The New Jersey Devils retained another quarter and received the rights of the Draft selection without signing Shane Lachance of the Oilers and Petr Hauser of the Bruins in return.
Trading Frederic is the first chair of the Bruins, which are among the teams that compete for the last playoff places at the Eastern Conference. Captain Brad Marchand, like Frederic, is a free pending agent, although he has said he would like to play his entire career with Boston and also was injured last weekend and is considered from week by week.
Obtaining the 27 -year -old provides Edmonton a very necessary hardness with the aim of helping Connor McDavid, Leon Draisaitl and Company make another long playoff race this spring, a year after reaching game 7 of the Stanley Cup final and losing to Florida. In addition to adding Frederic in a gain blow of $ 575,000, under the minimum of the league, the Oilers also obtained the front depth Max Jones in this agreement.
The deadline is Friday at 3 pm est.
A player who apparently will not be in motion is Jake Evans, who signed an extension of a four -year contract and $ 11.4 million to remain with the Montreal Canadiens beyond this season.
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