It's official: the Rangers have acquired forward Patrick Kane in a three-team deal involving the Chicago Blackhawks and Arizona Coyotes.
The full details of the trade have the Rangers acquiring Kane from Chicago and defenseman Cooper Zech from Arizona; the Blackhawks get defenseman Andy Welinski and two picks - a conditional second round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft and a fourth round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft - from the Rangers and defenseman VIli Saarijarvi from the Coyotes; and Arizona gets a conditional third round selection in the 2025 NHL Draft from New York.
Kane, 34, has 16 goals and 29 assists in 54 games with the Blackhawks this season, and he will be an unrestricted free agent this summer. His resume in Chicago speaks for itself, as he is a three-time Stanley Cup Champion with 446 goals and 779 assists in 16 seasons (plus another 52 goals and 80 assists in the Stanley Cup Playoffs), and he is third all-time in points among American-born skaters.
In his career, Kane, who was the No. 1 overall pick in 2007, is one of only 10 players to win all three of the Hart, Art Ross, and Conn Smythe Trophies, and he was the first American to win the Hart and Art Ross. He also won the Calder Memorial Trophy in 2007-08. He is also a nine-time NHL All-Star and two-time Olympian.
According to previous reports, the condition on the second-round pick the Rangers are sending to Chicago is that it becomes a first-round pick in either 2024 or 2025 if the Rangers make the Eastern Conference Finals this year.
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Zech, 24, was acquired by the Blackhawks from Philadelphia in October, and has split this year between AHL Rockford and the ECHL's Indy Fuel. He has six goals, six assists, six penalty minutes, and a minus-2 rating in 21 games.
Welinski, 29, signed a one-year, two-way deal with the Rangers last summer and has spent the entire year with the AHL's Hartford Wolfpack, notching four goals and 12 assists, 12 penalty minutes, and a minus-16 rating in 40 games.
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