{"id":438527,"date":"2024-03-07T19:57:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=438527"},"modified":"2024-03-07T19:57:35","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T00:57:35","slug":"nashville-predators-acquire-anthony-beauvillier-via-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/07\/nashville-predators-acquire-anthony-beauvillier-via-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Nashville Predators Acquire Anthony Beauvillier Via Trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/07\/cup-contender-adds-duhaime-trenin-trade\/\" target=\"_self\">Nashville Predators<\/a> have swung the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/beauvan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-07_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Beauvillier<\/a> trade with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/01\/30\/nhl-rumours-chicago-blackhawks-and-new-jersey-devils\/\" target=\"_self\">Chicago Blackhawks.<\/a> News of the deal broke Thursday afternoon, which is a day before the trade deadline. Chicago acquired a fifth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Predators make the Anthony Beauvillier trade official. \ud83e\udd1d<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NHLTradeDeadline?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#NHLTradeDeadline<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bet365ca?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@bet365ca<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LleV7qrZos\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/LleV7qrZos<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1765840284812779942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 7, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Blackhawks Make <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/b\/beauvan01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-07_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Beauvillier<\/a> Trade<\/h2>\n<p>Beauvillier has played for the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/07\/nhl-rumours-vancouver-canucks-and-new-york-islanders-2\/\" target=\"_self\">New York Islanders<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2024\/03\/02\/canucks-sign-superstar-to-long-term-deal\/\" target=\"_self\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> and the Blackhawks over his eight-year NHL career. The Sorel-Tracy, Quebec native has four goals and 10 assists in 45 games this season between the Canucks and the Blackhawks. Beauvillier has a Corsi for of 44.9 and a relative Corsi of 1.4. He was<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/nhl\/story\/_\/id\/39676876\/blackhawks-trade-anthony-beauvillier-predators-draft-pick\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> traded earlier in his career<\/a> to the Canucks as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/h\/horvabo01.html?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=lastwordonsports.com&amp;utm_campaign=2024-03-07_hr\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bo Horvat<\/a> trade.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old has 115 goals and 128 assists for 243 points in 535 career games. New York originally drafted Beauvillier in the first round, 28th overall of the 2014 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>Beauvillier has represented his home country of Canada on the international level. He won a bronze medal at the World U-18 tournament and was part of the 2016 IIHF World Junior and 2018 IIHF World Championship squads.<\/p>\n<p>His best season was when scored 21 goals in the 2017-18 season. Beauvillier has seen his production decrease over the last few seasons, but is looking to turn things around in the Music City with Nashville.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>The veteran forward does have a price tag of $4.125 million on his for the rest of the 2023-24 season. However, Nashville general manager Barry Trotz feels he can get something out of Beauvillier for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>He can score goals when his game is right and can slot into the middle-six of the Predators&#8217; lineup. The team earned its shot to make a push for a Stanley Cup Playoff spot. This is despite many thinking the Predators would be an also-ran and a likely seller at the deadline.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Jeff Curry &#8211; USA Today Sports<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nashville Predators have swung the Anthony Beauvillier trade with the Chicago Blackhawks. News of the deal broke Thursday afternoon, which is a day before the trade deadline. Chicago acquired a fifth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. The Predators make the Anthony Beauvillier trade official. \ud83e\udd1d#NHLTradeDeadline | @bet365ca pic.twitter.com\/LleV7qrZos &mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) March 7, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":437218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_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":[27,4547,31,34,4548],"tags":[3721,5909,6453],"class_list":["post-438527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blackhawks","category-hockey","category-predators","category-news","category-nhl","tag-anthony-beauvillier","tag-chicago-blackhawks-news","tag-nashville-predators-news"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438527","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\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}