Barry Trotz has traded a 2024 fifth round pick to the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for winger Anthony Beauvillier.
The 26-year-old Quebec native was selected by the New York Islanders with the 28th overall pick in the 2015 draft and spent his first six full seasons with the Islanders under then head coach Barry Trotz. Beauvillier played 457 games with the Islanders before being traded in January 2023 to the Vancouver Canucks as a part of the Bo Horvat deal. After 55 games with the Canucks, Beauvillier was traded on November 28, 2023 to the Chicago Blackhawks for a 2024 conditional fifth round pick.
In his 535 NHL games, Beauvillier has scored 115 goals and 243 points. In 2017-2018 he scored 21 goals in 71 games and recorded his career best 40 point season in 2022-2023 splitting time between the Islanders and Canucks. This season Beauvillier has averaged just over fourteen minutes of ice time a game and recorded four goals and 14 points.
Beauvillier is on the last year of a 3-year, $12.5 million dollar deal.
The trade is a low risk move that brings a more “shoot first” forward to the Nashville roster. It also raises speculation about the future of other Predators’ UFA forwards like Yakov Trenin and Kiefer Sherwood ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.
