We can communicate with our appropriate and perfect source of information with the utmost confidence that the Rangers' priorities, which enter the 3pm deal deadline on Friday, are not to acquire a veteran right-winger and fill in the hole on the right beside Chris Clayder and Mika Zibanejad.
No Frank Vatrano, no Vlad Taracenko, no Patrick Kane. Certainly, this is becoming the opposite deadline.
After trading pending rental properties, Ryan Lindgren and Jimmy Vissy sent the third final pending free agent on the Vegas roster on Thursday in the third round of San Jose and the third round of AHL center Brendan Brisson, heading towards Colorado for draft capital and roster players.
Hours later, Drury sent that third round to Vancouver for Carson Soucy, a 30-year-old 6-foot-5, 210-pound physical defender. This wasn't a short-term move, but I'm thinking about it again next year.
