Hopefully, Derick Brassard didn’t unpack all of his bags yet.
The Florida Panthers traded the center to the Colorado Avalanche along with a conditional 2020 sixth-round draft pick for a third-round pick in 2020 at the NHL trade deadline, a few short weeks after acquiring him from the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Brassard posted four points in 10 games with the Panthers, giving him 10 goals and 19 points in 50 games in 2018-19.
The former Rangers pivot will now be moving on to his sixth team in 12 NHL seasons, fifth since 2015-16. He’s due to be a free agent at season’s end, though the Avalanche, in the middle of the wild-card chase in the Western Conference, will welcome the veteran presence down the stretch.
Other players with tri-state ties on the move on Monday’s deadline:
• Former Rangers defenseman Michael Del Zotto was shipped from the Ducks to the Blues.
• Marcus Johansson is Boston-bound after the Devils swapped him to the Bruins for a pair of draft picks.
• Devils goalie Keith Kinkaid, expendable with Cory Schneider’s return and Mackenzie Blackwood’s breakout, was traded to the Blue Jackets for a 2022 fifth-round pick.
• One-time Rangers forward Oscar Lindberg went from the Golden Knights to the Senators as part of the Mark Stone trade.