Jets Acquire Nino Niederreiter From Predators

The Nashville Predators have traded Nino Niederreiter to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft.

The trades keep on coming. 

The Nashville Predators were the latest club to get in on a selling spree ahead of the March 3 NHL trade deadline, dealing forward Nino Niederreiter to the Winnipeg Jets in exchange for a second-round pick in the 2024 NHL draft.

It's hard not to see the move as a pretty convincing win for the Jets, who now add a legitimate top-six scoring winger to a lineup that desperately needs one, and all for the price of a second-round pick. 

Niederreiter has produced at a decent rate for the disappointing Predators this season, racking up 18 goals and 10 assists for 28 points in 56 games while logging just over 16 minutes in nightly ice time. 

Now headed to Winnipeg, Niederreiter will likely be playing with any combination of Kyle Connor, Mark Schiefele, Pierre-Luc Dubois and Nikolaj Ehlers, giving him plenty of surrounding talent with whom to flourish. 

With the Jets in the middle of a playoff race, adding a talent like Niederreiter without surrendering a single roster piece is some tidy business. 

As for Nashville, the Predators now have eight picks in 2024 and eight in 2023 after previously acquiring a third-rounder from San Jose and a fourth from Toronto. They also previously traded a seventh-rounder away in 2023.

Stay tuned, as more trades are sure to come.