Sources: Kreider OK's trade, heading to Ducks

Chris Kreider is acceptable to articulation the Anaheim Ducks aft the winger waived his no-trade clause and is allowing the New York Rangers to woody him away, sources confirmed to ESPN connected Thursday.

The Rangers volition person imaginable Carey Terrance successful instrumentality with the teams besides swapping draught picks, sources said. The woody is pending a commercialized call.

To marque the woody happen, Kreider had to waive his 15-team no-trade list, which helium had precocious added Anaheim to. The New York Post archetypal reported that Kreider was waiving his no-trade clause.

Sources said the Ducks volition instrumentality connected the last 2 years of Kreider's contract, which pays him $6.5 cardinal annually. That creates headdress flexibility for the Rangers heading into escaped bureau connected July 1.

Rangers wide manager Chris Drury has been looking for ways to shingle up his roster aft missing the playoffs, continuing a inclination that began aboriginal successful the play erstwhile Drury traded skipper Jacob Trouba to Anaheim. The Ducks and wide manager Pat Verbeek, meanwhile, are looking to instrumentality large swings to determination guardant and marque the playoffs for the archetypal clip since 2018.

Last month, Anaheim hired three-time Stanley Cup champion Joel Quenneville arsenic its coach. Quenneville is the second-winningest NHL manager of each time.

Kreider, 34, has played his full 13-year vocation with the Rangers, who drafted him successful the archetypal circular successful 2009. He is the Rangers' all-time playoff person successful goals, power-play goals and game-winning goals. Kreider has 326 vocation goals and 582 points successful 883 regular-season games.

He took a measurement backmost successful accumulation this season, with 22 goals and 8 assists successful 68 games. The seasoned forward, 1 of the champion net-front presences successful the NHL, revealed successful April that helium dealt with respective wellness issues during the season, including backmost problems and an unwellness that led to him experiencing vertigo. Kreider besides said helium battled done a manus wounded that helium suffered successful the archetypal crippled aft the 4 Nations Face-Off, wherever helium competed for Team USA. He said the manus wounded whitethorn necessitate offseason surgery.

Terrance, 20, was a second-round prime by the Ducks successful 2023. He had 20 goals and 19 assists portion playing for the Erie Otters successful the OHL this season.