Hours before they are to take on the Boston Bruins in the third game of their five-game homestand, the Rangers announced Wednesday that they have traded rugged forward Cody McLeod to the Nashville Predators for a seventh-round pick in the 2020 NHL draft. The Rangers called up Vinni Lettieri from their Hartford farm team to fill the roster spot.
McLeod, 34, returns to Nashville little more than a year after the Rangers claimed the enforcer off waivers from the Predators in January 2018. He played a total of 56 games for the Rangers, scoring one goal, collecting two assists, with 99 penalty minutes.