Avs Get Ryan Lindgren in Trade with Rangers

5 players (including CDH!) and 2 picks moved in East/West deal.

Here I am… trying to enjoy my Saturday with family after writing a lengthy recap of last night’s game against Minnesota… and we go and make a trade!

And for those of you who follow along during the in-game chats we host, you know how much I love Calvin de Haan (facetiously or not is irrelevant). So this hurts.

But… I think the Avs get better with this one. Let’s look at it.

Colorado Avalanche acquire:

• Ryan Lindgren | D

• Jimmy Vesey | F

• Hank Kempf | D (Cornell prospect)

New York Rangers acquire:

• Juuso Parssinen | F

• Calvin de Haan | D

• 2025 2nd round pick

• 2025 4th round pick 

The big piece here is Lindgren and he’s going to Denver. He carries a $4.5 million cap hit with the Rangers seemingly retaining 50% of his salary in the move. He is an unrestricted free agent at the end of the season with the same being true for Vesey — a former Hobey Baker winner at Harvard where he just missed playing with Jack Drury by two years  — who carries an $800,000 figure and is up at the end of the year.