Rangers Trade Deadline: Blueshirts Deal F Mats Zuccarello To Stars

Rangers Trade Deadline: Blueshirts Deal F Mats Zuccarello To Stars

DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Stars have acquired forward Mats Zuccarello from the New York Rangers to bolster their push for a playoff spot.

The Rangers are receiving a conditional second-round draft pick this year and a conditional third-round pick in the 2010 draft in the deal announced Saturday night.

Zucc,
From your first goal (an OT game winner) you captured the hearts of RangersTown and always made us smile.

Your spirit.
Your passion.
Your extra effort.
A Blueshirt through and through.

Once a Ranger, always a Ranger. We thank you.
ZUUUUUUUUUCC pic.twitter.com/gV8O7Lhl7s

— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) February 24, 2019

Zuccarello had 113 goals and 239 assists in 509 games over parts of nine seasons in New York. This season, he had 11 goals and 26 assists in 46 games.

The 31-year-old Norwegian goes from a Rangers team in rebuilding mode to a Stars team that is tied with Colorado for the wild card spots in the Western Conference.

Earlier in the day, Dallas acquired defenseman Ben Lovejoy in a trade with New Jersey.

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February 24, 2019 at 08:20AM