The Tampa Bay Lightning have completed their second minor trade within a matter of hours, sending center Jimmy Huntington to the Nashville Predators in exchange for center Anthony Richard.
Earlier in the day, the Bolts sent Alexey Lipanov to the Dallas Stars, acquiring Tye Felhaber in return.
Huntington is a 23-year-old undrafted forward with no NHL experience yet. However, he’s put up somewhat decent numbers with the AHL’s Syracuse Crunch over the past few seasons. After a tough professional debut in 2019-20 with just three assists in 33 games with Syracuse, he’s scored 11 goals, 16 assists, and 26 points in 55 games in the following two seasons.
Richard actually has some NHL experience to his name. The 100th overall selection in 2015 by Nashville is now 25 years old, and with his AHL numbers starting to plateau, the organization was ready to move on. Richard has seven goals and five assists for 12 points in 31 games with the AHL’s Milwaukee Admirals this year. He’s still searching for his first NHL point, with his two games of experience coming in 2018-19 and 2019-20.
We’ll miss ya in Milwaukee Richie hopefully this Huntington kid can turn into a Tanner Jeannot