OFFICIAL: #NYR acquired a conditional first-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft and a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft from Dallas in exchange for defenseman Nils Lundkvist. — New York Rangers (@NYRangers) September 20, 2022 Lundqvist, 22, had a goal and three assists in 25 games with the Rangers last season, his first in North America. In 34 games with the Hartford Wolf Pack of the AHL, he scored three goals and 15 points. On Friday, Claude Lemieux’s agent confirmed that the Pitea product of Sweden requested a trade from New York and would not report to Rangers training camp before the 2022-23 campaign. A first-round pick (28th overall) by the Rangers in the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, Lundqvist spent the past three seasons with Lulea in Sweden, winning the Salming Trophy as defenseman of the year in 2020-21. Lundqvist has two seasons left on his three-year, entry-level contract.
