Rangers acquire Alex Wennberg in NHL trade deadline splash

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The Rangers got the center they have been targeting for weeks and now the question is what kind of a third line will head coach Peter Laviolette build around Seattle expatriate Alex Wennberg?

The 29-year-old Swede, acquired for a 2024 second-rounder and a 2025 fourth-rounder at 50 percent retention of his $4.5 million cap hit, is known as especially responsible on the defensive side of the puck while also capable of playing the middle on a scoring line.

There are still two days until Friday’s 3 p.m. deadline for GM Chris Drury to add more reinforcements with just over $2.9 million in space — there’s an opening on right wing, don’t you know — so it is not yet possible to pin down with certainty who might be the best available options to play on Wennberg’s left and right.

Laviolette could create a matchup checking line with Jimmy Vesey and Barclay Goodrow on Wennberg’s flanks while Jonny Brodzinski moves down to the fourth line.

But where does that leave Will Cuylle and where would that leave Kaapo Kakko if the Blueshirts acquire a right wing to play with Mika Zibanejad and Chris Kreider and No. 24 does not go the other way?

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