The latest NHL trade rumors, deadline moves, and roster changes.
The Wild gave up four pieces for a season and a half of Quinn Hughes. The extension everybody is treating as a separate decision is actually the second half of that trade's price, and it is the only thing that can still make the December deal look sane.
Ten years ago Nashville moved its captain without asking him. That is the part of the Weber trade the new Josi pitch quietly borrows and cannot have. Weber's contract never carried a no-movement clause at all. Josi's does, to the end of the deal.
A market this hot is not supposed to stay this quiet. Five weeks after Darren Dreger counted six interested teams, nobody has traded for Alexander Nikishin. The reported price isn't the problem. The player Carolina wants to send with him is.
Read the two 'suitors' as equals and you miss the story. Buffalo turned down Winnipeg's asking price once and stayed at the table anyway. Carolina's own GM just said he's comfortable running it back for $4.6M less.
Seattle has agreed to move the No. 4 pick it can't develop. Five teams are asking. Only one of them employs the general manager who drafted him, and that is the single most valuable asset in the room.
The Flyers-Xhekaj rumor isn't news. It's a symptom. Montreal's qualifying offer, its depth chart, and a career low in ice time already told you where this is going.
The reporting calls it when, not if. But a full no-move clause, a four-team list, his worst points total in five years, and Chayka's refusal to retain salary are not the setup for a trade. They are the reason there isn't one.
Kevin Cheveldayoff will not say Connor Hellebuyck is being traded. Read Winnipeg's transactions in the order they happened and the front office has already answered the question.
Philadelphia has $15.9 million in cap room and Connor McDavid costs $12.5 million against the ceiling. The money in this fantasy actually works, which is the only part that does, and it explains why a throwaway radio segment traveled further than it ever should have.
Kyle Dubas built a rebuild bank designed not to be spent on a late-20s star. Then he spent June chasing one. The Robertson math exposes two offseasons that can't both be true.
Wright requested a trade and named one destination. That is exactly why he is stuck. With no rival bidder, Seattle sets the price, and the price is a cornerstone defenseman for a center coming off 27 points.
Patrick Kane to Toronto is the rumor every Leafs blog is running this week. It's also the one the reporting doesn't support. The Leafs are over the cap, their need is the opposite of what Kane offers, and the LTIR relief fans are counting on doesn't arrive until winter.
Dallas heard the ask and shot it down out of hand. Minnesota heard Boldy or nobody. Two rejections, one pattern: Yzerman is not selling his captain, he is pricing him off the market.
The market has decided Elias Pettersson should move. The one person who can veto it hasn't, and he has already used that veto once.
