Today, the Rangers:
The Rangers have about $7.7 million in cap space according to CapWages.
The Rangers are trading Will Borgen to the Bruins for a 2027 second round pick and conditional third round pick in 2028. (Walker)
The condition on the pick is that the Rangers will receive Boston’s 2028 second round pick if the Bruins make the Conference Finals in either 2026-27 or 2027-28 and Borgen plays in 50% of the games. (Walker)
The Rangers acquired Borgen for two draft picks and Kaapo Kakko in December 2024. The Rangers then signed Borgen to an extension a few weeks later.
Last season in the OHL, Cole Beaudoin had 33 goals and 55 assists in 54 games and 10 goals and 19 assists in 15 playoff games.
He was the 24th overall pick in 2024.
4:29PM: The Rangers are acquiring defenseman Sean Durzi, 20-year old center prospect Cole Beaudoin and a third round pick in 2027.
Beaudoin was the 24th overall pick in 2024.
Durzi, 27, is signed for two more seasons at $6 million per season. He is a right-shot defenseman.
4:21 PM: The Rangers are trading Vincent Trocheck to Utah. (Friedman)
Utah has been reportedly interested in Trocheck for a while.
It was suspected that Trocheck’s preference was to stay in the East. His no-trade clause dropped from 12 to 10 today.
4:38PM: On NHL Network, Elliotte Friedman said “I think Utah was one of the teams he couldn’t be dealt to. Utah has been after him for quite some time, they tried last year during the regular season and Trocheck, for family reasons, his preference was to be East and a lot of his no-trade list were Western teams. I guess Utah was persistent and I think he was a player that was ready for a change, ready to go somewhere else and try something new and ultimately Utah wore him down and convinced him to do it. It is a big return, Sean Durzi is a very good defenseman, a real puck mover and that Cole Beaudoin, people who saw him in the playoffs last year playing for Barrie, that is a really competitive, talented kid. The Rangers will probably look at it and say that they have a couple of defense pair because they are also working on acquiring Marcus Pettersson from Vancouver Canucks, but ultimately Beaudoin is the guy they are going to hope is going to be a Ranger for a long time and he has a chance to be, he’s a talented kid.”
Asked if he thought that this is the kind of return he was expecting for Trocheck, Friedman said “I do, I think that is about what I thought it was going to be, something like that. I wasn’t necessarily sure about Durzi but I was expecting a name like Beaudoin to be in the return, I think that was important for NY, they have to inject some youth into their roster, they have to get some good young players who can make an impact and when I heard that name I thought that it was the kind of player the Rangers were looking for.”
5:52PM: The Rangers are trading a top-10 protected 2030 First Round pick for Pettersson. (Friedman)
3:52PM: The Rangers are reportedly acquiring Marcus Pettersson from Vancouver. (Pagnotta)
Pettersson is 30-years old and is signed for five-more seasons at $5.5 million per season.
He played for Mike Sullivan in Pittsburgh for seven seasons, is a left shot, 6-5, 174lbs and has 21 goals and 159 assists in 604 career NHL games.
Pettersson was actually traded from Pittsburgh to Vancouver with the First Round Pick that the Rangers sent to Vancouver for JT Miller.
He would have to waive his no-move clause to come to the Rangers.
Pettersson has averaged 19:17 per game in his career.