Rangers trade Ryan Reaves to Wild to clear salary cap space

The Rangers freed up some much-needed cap house by buying and selling Ryan Reaves to the Wild on Wednesday earlier than their recreation in opposition to the Geese in Anaheim. 

In trade for Reaves, the Blueshirts acquired a 2025 fifth-round draft choose from Minnesota. The Wild shall be taking over the rest of Reaves’ $1.75 million cap hit, which is able to equate to roughly $4.8 million of house on the commerce deadline. 

Reaves’ agent, Kevin Epp, requested Rangers president and common supervisor Chris Drury for a commerce whereas the group was in Los Angeles earlier this week, based on a supply. The Rangers wished to present Reaves a dignified departure, so reuniting him with Wild common supervisor Invoice Guerin, whom the veteran winger is aware of from his days in Pittsburgh, was a strategy to do it. 

Ryan Reaves had been scratched in seven of the final eight Rangers video games.

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The 35-year-old had been a wholesome scratch for the Rangers in seven of the final eight video games — and eight occasions total. Regardless of enjoying a distinct segment fourth-line function final season, Reaves had been edged out of the Rangers lineup by Julien Gauthier, who brings much more pace.