Rangers, Ducks agree to Chris Kreider trade — it’s now all in his hands

The move to Anaheim is now entirely up to Chris Kreider after the Rangers have struck a preliminary agreement with the Ducks to trade their senior player. 

The Post has learned that while Anaheim was on his 15-team no-trade list submitted last July 1, Chris Drury was given permission by the winger’s party to conduct negotiations with general manager counterpart Pat Verbeek after weeks of constant communication between the hierarchy and Kreider’s camp. 

But, after conducting due diligence throughout the day after learning of the preliminary agreement late Tuesday night, Kreider still had not signed off on it even as we have been told that one of the individuals in Anaheim with whom he spoke in the morning believed it was a fait accompli. 

Kreider, who turned 34 at the end of April, has a family. He has earned as much time as he needs to make this career- and life-changing decision. But it’s unclear why he would have agreed unofficially to remove Anaheim from his no-trade list if he were not amenable to joining a Ducks team that includes former teammates Jacob Trouba, Ryan Strome and Frank Vatrano. 

Perhaps it is just dotting every “i” and crossing every “t” before the Boxford, Mass., native moves his brood across the country. 

When — is it if? — he does agree to the deal in which the Blueshirts would receive 20-year-old prospect Casey Terrance, a center out of OHL Erie drafted No. 59 overall by the Ducks in 2023, the divorce after 13 years that has seemed inevitable for months will be done.