BREAKING: Two Eastern teams make a TRADE

Saturday night the Toronto Maple Leafs made a huge trade to improve their roster for a playoff run.

Earlier last week the New York Rangers had as well bringing in Vladimir Tarasenko, but it looks like they are not done yet.

There is going to be a big competition in the playoffs for the Eastern Conference this year as the New York Rangers just made another trade with the Ottawa Senators to bring in some depth in their forward ranks:

To OTT:
RW Julien Gauthier
2023 conditional 7th RD pick

To NYR:
F Tyler Motte
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Trade announcement: The #Sens have acquired forward Julien Gauthier and a conditional seventh-round draft pick in 2023 from the @NYRangers in exchange for forward Tyler Motte. 1/2 pic.twitter.com/rTXRCUWUH1� Ottawa Senators (@Senators) February 19, 2023

Motte is great bottom 6 forward who brings some grit:

The Senators get a young former first round pick, who at the age of 25 is still struggling to find that consistency at the NHL level:

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Ottawa	18	38.3 %
New York	29	61.7 %
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