Avalanche and Rangers make a trade involving five players, two picks
Mar 1, 2025, 11:41 AM
Colorado Avalanche GM Chris MacFarland made another trade on Saturday morning with the NHL deadline less than a week away.
The Avs are acquiring Ryan Lindgren, Jimmy Vesey and prospect Hank Kempf from the New York Rangers in exchange for Calvin de Haan, Juuso Parssinen a second-round pick and a fourth-round pick.
Reports of the trade began leaking about 30 minutes before Colorado officially announced it, upgrading from de Haan to Lindgren on defense and swapping out Parssinen for Vesey. The Avs had to throw in the two draft picks to get the Rangers to bite.
We have acquired Ryan Lindgren and Jimmy Vesey from the New York Rangers in exchange for Calvin de Haan and Juuso Parssinen. pic.twitter.com/BvsjJdxRbU
— Colorado Avalanche (@Avalanche) March 1, 2025
Lindgren had played all seven years of his NHL career in New York, tallying 12 goals and adding 87 assists. In 54 games this year he has two goals and 17 assists. He averages 19:56 of ice time per game, so he figures to slot in with Samuel Girard as the Avalanche’s second defensive pairing.
Vesey has 100 career goals and 92 career assists in nine NHL seasons with the Rangers, Devils, Sabres, Maple Leafs and Canucks. This year with New York he’s only played in 33 games, posting two goals and four assists. He did have 13 goals and 13 assists last year. Kempf is currently a senior at Cornell University.
The Avalanche part ways with de Haan who was a free agent signing this summer. He had zero goals and seven assists in 44 games. Parssinen was acquired from Nashville in late December and had two goals and four assists in 22 games.
This obviously isn’t on the level of the Mikko Rantanen trade or even the Alexandar Georgiev trade for that matter, but MacFarland continues to tinker with his roster. And Lindgren and Vesey look like solid additions on paper.
They’re likely to make their Colorado debuts against the Penguins on Tuesday. The trade deadline is Friday, March 7, so we’ll see if the Avalanche continue to wheel and deal.
