NHL trade reports 2020: Boston Bruins look for New York Rangers’ Chris Kreider as leading due date target

Chris Kreider is among the leading names drifting around the NHL ahead of next month’s trade due date, and for great factor. He is a reliable scoring winger possibly playing the very best hockey of his profession (17 objectives, 15 helps in 48 video games); his agreement lasts through the 2020-21 season at a team-friendly $4.625 million wage cap hit.

Plenty of groups that anticipate to compete both this spring and next season undoubtedly will examine Kreider’s schedule over the next month, however the Boston Bruins apparently see him as their leading trade target over the next month. NBC Sports Boston’s Joe Haggerty pointed out confidential hockey sources in his report, which likewise noted it stays possible that New York might hang on to Kreider for the remainder of the season.

The Rangers (23-21 -4, 50 points) are 10 explains of the Eastern Conference through Tuesday’s standings, and are not likely to make the playoffs– however basic supervisor Jeff Gorton is still evaluating his lineup. As Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman kept in mind on Wednesday, the Rangers have back-to-back video games with the NHL-worst Detroit Red Wings after the All-Star break. An early February rise might convince Gorton to hang on to Kreider, even if he does leading TSN’s “Trade Bait” board.

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Say Gorton does choose he’s ready to move Kreider, though; how most likely is he to land in Boston?

The Bruins are relatively in requirement of assistance on the wing every season; they have actually been connected to Kreider prior to. It symbolically assists that he matured in Boxford, Mass., and dipped into Boston College; the group has a couple of Boston-area locals on the lineup currently. The Bruins have actually long had a leading line of elite gamers in Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak. It’s the second-line wing positions that the club has actually looked for assistance at regularly in the last few years, and it’s where Kreider might fit right in.

Kreider has actually a reported 11- group no-trade stipulation in his agreement, however Boston’s status as a clear Stanley Cup competitor ought to render it a non-issue. Sweeney has the first-round draft choice that the Rangers apparently desire as a beginning point for a Kreider offer; he has more youthful wingers, such as Anders Bjork, who might grow into the function Kreider might leave behind in Manhattan.

Boston is right up versus the wage cap ($566,824 in area on Jan. 22) which might make a trade hard to finish, however it hasn’t stopped Sweeney and Gorton from dealing prior to: Boston got Rick Nash from the Rangers in a 2018 trade due date handle exchange for a plan that consisted of 3 gamers, 2 draft choices, and wage maintained on Matt Beleskey’s agreement to make it all work.

The NHL’s trade due date is on Feb. 24.

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