The New York Rangers have traded winger Pavel Buchnevich, a pending RFA, to the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Sammy Blais and the Blues’ 2022 2nd round pick.
Blais, 25, is also a pending RFA and is arbitration-eligible, per CapFriendly. Blais just finished a two-year deal that paid him an AAV of $1.5 million. He was the 176th pick (6th round) of the 2016 Draft and is coming off a 2020-21 season where he scored 15 points in 36 games. Buchnevich, on the other hand, had 48 points in 54 games last season.