The Chicago Blackhawks today announced that the team has acquired defenseman Ryan Mast and Boston’s own 2025 seventh-round pick from the Boston Bruins in exchange for defenseman Victor Soderstrom.

The Chicago Blackhawks have traded the rights of defenseman Victor Söderström to the Boston Bruins for defense prospect Ryan Mast and a 2025 seventh-round pick, the team announced Friday.

Mast, meanwhile, was a sixth-round pick (181st overall) for the Bruins in 2021. He spent much of 2023-24, his first pro season, playing for the Maine Mariners of the ECHL.

They traded the rights to Swedish defenseman Victor Soderstrom to the Bruins for prospect defenseman Ryan Mast and a 2025 seventh-round draft pick (No. 197 overall).

For Mast, the 22-year-old native of Bloomfield, Mich., joins the Blackhawks after being previously chosen by the Bruins in the sixth round of the 2021 NHL Draft.

Ryan Mast was chosen by Boston with the 181st overall pick in the sixth round of the 2021 NHL Draft. The team signed Mast to a three-year, entry-level contract worth $2.635 million on July 18, 2022.

The Bruins swung a trade late Friday afternoon, acquiring the rights to defenseman Victor Soderstrom from the Blackhawks. In return, Boston sent defenseman Ryan Mast and a 2025 seventh-round pick ...

Bruins' Ryan Mast: Off to Windy City. Mast and a seventh-round pick were traded to Chicago from Boston on Friday in exchange for the rights to Victor Soderstrom, Scott Powers of The Athletic reports.

Y esterday, the Boston Bruins went ahead and made a small trade; trading the rights of prospect Ryan Mast and a 2025 7th Round Pick for the rights to prospect Victor Soderstrom.

Mast, meanwhile, was a sixth-round pick (181st overall) for the Bruins in 2021. He spent much of 2023-24, his first pro season, playing for the Maine Mariners of the ECHL.