The defending Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers made their first big move ahead of the NHL trade deadline Tuesday, acquiring hard-nosed forward Trent Frederic from the Boston Bruins. Edmonton sent a 2025 second- and a 2026 fourth-round pick and prospect Max Wanner to Boston for the 6-foot-3,

The defending Western Conference champion Edmonton Oilers made their first big move ahead of the NHL trade deadline by acquiring hard-nosed forward Trent Frederic from the Boston Bruins

The Edmonton Oilers are acquiring forward Trent Frederic in a trade with the Boston Bruins and New Jersey Devils.

Edmonton executes a pair of trades with Boston & New Jersey to add three forwards to the organization EDMONTON, AB – The Edmonton Oilers have made a pair of trades with Boston and New Jersey to acquire forwards Trent Frederic and Max Jones along with the rights to forward Petr Hauser.

Trent Frederic was traded to the Edmonton Oilers by the Boston Bruins as part of a three-team trade also involving the New Jersey Devils on Tuesday. Boston traded Frederic to New Jersey in exchange for unsigned forward Petr Hauser and retained 50 percent of the Frederic's salary.

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Experts gave the Boston Bruins good grades for the Trent Frederic trade ahead of the upcoming NHL trade deadline.

On Feb. 4, the Boston Bruins got their selling started. They traded pending unrestricted free agent Trent Frederic and depth winger Max Jones to the Edmonton Oilers to officially spark their retool. In return,