We’ve now crossed from January on into February, which for the NHL means that trade rumors are bound to start picking up steam.
And though they’ve enjoyed great success to this point in the season, the New York Rangers are expected to be among the teams adding at least an additional piece before the deadline later this month.
Most of those trade rumors have them picking up a veteran to add to the forward lines. With such a young team in New York, they can use the veteran experience of an older vet.
One of those names, which has picked up steam of late, is that of Ryan Smyth, according to the New York Post’s Larry Brooks.
Smyth was one of the bigger names to be traded this past summer, when he was traded from the Los Angeles Kings to the Edmonton Oilers, the team that originally drafted him in 1994. The Oilers’ general manager at the time was Glen Sather.
It wouldn’t be Smyth’s first go-around in New York, as he was traded from the Oilers to the I...
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