The Nashville Predators added two players off waivers on Thursday: defenseman Jordan Oesterle and forward Jakub Vrana. Their roster is now at 22.

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Frederic — who is out week-to-week with a lower-body injury — remains on the trade market, but the Bruins could see his value diminish.

Boston Bruins forward Trent Frederic is considered week-to-week with a lower-body injury, the team announced. Frederic sustained the injury during the Bruins' 5-4 overtime loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Tuesday.

The Boston Bruins, like many teams in the NHL's Eastern Conference, are approaching the March 7 trade deadline from two angles. The Bruins enter Friday with 62 points, just four out of the final wild-card spot in the East.

Frederick Gaudreau scored the game's only goal and Filip Gustavsson stopped 28 shots as the Minnesota Wild beat the Boston Bruins 1-0 on Sunday. Gustavsson posted his fourth shutout of the season, his first since Jan.

But it did keep the Islanders’ faint hopes alive as they held on for 2-1 win over the Boston Bruins on Thursday night at TD Garden to snap a four-game losing streak. Importantly, goalie Ilya Sorokin was markedly sharper and more aggressive than in Tuesday night’s 5-1 loss to the Rangers at UBS Arena — a game in which the Islanders felt they were the better team but could not keep their rivals from consistently crowding the crease.

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But the defenseman, who the Bruins acquired along with two draft picks in the Trent Frederic trade, might have more upside than that. The 21-year-old, 6-foot-3, 184-pound right-shot defenseman’s stock has risen in two years as a pro.