{"id":41043,"date":"2019-02-06T11:43:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T16:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=41043"},"modified":"2019-02-06T12:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:22:24","slug":"new-jersey-devils-trade-brian-boyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2019\/02\/06\/new-jersey-devils-trade-brian-boyle\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jersey Devils Trade Brian Boyle to Nashville Predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils have agreed to trade center <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boylebr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Boyle<\/a><\/strong> to the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nashville Predators<\/a> in exchange for the Predators 2019 second round pick<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The deal is Brian Boyle to NSH. NJ gets NSH 2019 2nd round pick in return. Done deal.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSNBobMcKenzie\/status\/1093184567396192256?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">February 6, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h1>Devils Trade <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boylebr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brian Boyle<\/a> to Nashville<\/h1>\n<p>The New Jersey Devils completed a trade Wednesday, February 6th with the Nashville Predators. The Predators have acquired center Brian Boyle in exchange for Nashville&#8217;s second-round pick in 2019<\/p>\n<h2>Key Players<\/h2>\n<p>In Boyle, the Predators get a physical center who can play anywhere in the lineup. He has been a huge presence on the powerplay with a career-high six goals with the man advantage this season. This season, he scored 13 goals and 6 assists for 19 points, adding 22 minutes in penalties. His possession numbers are 47.3 percent Corsi\u00a0and a relative Corsi of -0.5. Those totals are comparable to last season, where he scored 13 goals, 10 assists for 23 points. Over his 12-year NHL career, Boyle has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/kings\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L.A. Kings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/rangers\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Rangers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/lightning\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tampa Bay Lightning<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/maple-leafs\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> and New Jersey Devils. In that time, he has 119\u00a0goals and 92 assists for 211 career points in 740 career games. He was originally drafted 26th overall of the 2003 NHL draft by the L.A. Kings.<\/p>\n<h2>What This Means for the Future<\/h2>\n<p>With Boyle set to be a free agent at the end of the season, he is meant to be a rental player with the Predators since they will be unlikely to re-sign him with the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/ellisry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Ellis<\/a><\/strong> extension\u00a0starting next season. When with the Devils Boyle played on the bottom six this season. He will step into the Preds lineup as a key bottom 6 player and a penalty killer. Boyle will likely play 4th line center behind\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/j\/johanry01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ryan Johansen<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/boninni01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nick Bonino<\/a><\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/turriky01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kyle Turris<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>when he&#8217;s healthy. This adds depth to the Predators roster for a Stanley Cup run this season.<\/p>\n<p>Main photo:<br \/>\n<a id=\"2MIt8PpYQLp5JJDan6-YGg\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.ca\/detail\/1126577126\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'2MIt8PpYQLp5JJDan6-YGg',sig:'9K3gPi3wa7x3UL4UzhjJ0SsHvTJccO3_abmBvNF7fNA=',w:'594px',h:'453px',items:'1126577126',caption: true ,tld:'ca',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Jersey Devils have agreed to trade center Brian Boyle to the Nashville Predators in exchange for the Predators 2019 second round pick The deal is Brian Boyle to NSH. NJ gets NSH 2019 2nd round pick in return. Done deal. &mdash; Bob McKenzie (@TSNBobMcKenzie) February 6, 2019 Devils Trade Brian Boyle to Nashville [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2360,"featured_media":41091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,31,34],"tags":[1280,243,151,955],"class_list":["post-41043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-devils","category-predators","category-news","tag-brian-boyle","tag-nashville-predators","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-nhl-news"],"modified_by":"Ben Kerr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2360"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}