The Rangers have begun the 2019 trading deadline period with a flurry of moves, though perhaps not of the magnitude expected. After swapping spare parts Cody McLeod and Marek Mazanec for seventh-round picks, the Rangers last night traded center Peter Holland to Chicago in return for defenseman Darren Raddysh. Darren is not to be confused with his brother, Taylor Raddysh, who is a Tampa Bay Lightning prospect.
Soon to be 23 years old, Raddysh is a late bloomer. The right-handed defenseman was not drafted by an NHL team even though he put up respectable numbers for the OHL’s Erie Otters.