For a couple of hours, everything went quiet and then about 8:00, business picked up. The result was two trades within minutes of each other. Mats Zuccarello got traded to the Dallas Stars for two conditional draft picks. The former New York Rangers’ forward deal breaks down as follows:
- 2019 second round pick
- 2020 third round pick
- Rangers retain about $345,000 of Zuccarello’s pro-rated salary
- 2019 second becomes a first if Dallas gets to the conference final
- 2020 third becomes a first if Dallas re-signs Zuccarello
The retention figure is approximate to the number of games played which was 61 at press time for New York.