Edited Feb. 16 at 8:15 a.m.
21 days until trade deadline.
At this point last season STL had unloaded Tarasenko and Orielly, Horvat had been moved, and the defensive market opened up during this week with Orlov moving.
Since there aren’t a lot of premium assets available, I wonder if this year changes a bit:
I wonder if we see packages of 2 skaters moved for a first. There aren’t enough skaters worth a first to satisfy the number of teams who want to improve. These teams still want firsts and some teams in contention will still spend them. So, for example, Henrique commands a 1st, but he’s shipped with somebody else to round out that value.
But then, many of the “sellers” with premium assets are in playoff contention
Philly (Walker, Frost, Laughton)
Calgary (hanafin, Tanev, markstrom)
Stl (Buchnevich, Kapanen)
LAK (Roy, Arvidsson)
DET (Perron, Kane)
Kinda crazy if most of that isn’t traded. There ain’t much left.
After stl caved in Edmonton during last nights second period, I don’t think they can be sellers. It would def anger hockey gods. If the team can spank that hard you must let them try. Some gms say that the teams tell them what to do at the deadline. The blues told Doug Armstrong.