Concerns that the trade deadline would be a bit of a dud turned out to be way off as it was very active with some big names moving. Despite the Stars and Panthers making big moves for big names, both the Oilers and Leafs made moves but no blockbusters. The Bruns clearly decided to punt on this year and be in a position to take advantage of lots of cap space this summer.
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Trade Deadline
Marchand to Florida – Boston eats half salary and gets 2027 2nd – crazy low return
Rantanen to Dallas
Carlo to Leafs
Coyle, Nelson to Avalanche
Oilers….
Jake Walman
Trent Frederic
All primary competition added to top, Oilers shored up bottom half of lineup
Leafs – Scott Laughton, Brandon Carlo – shored up Defence
Marner – was on the block
Sens move Josh Norris
Bruins – big time retool
– Marchand, Carlo, Coyle, Frederic – 3 pts out of wildcard – give up on this season
– All players brought back other than Middelestadt, Minten on expiring deals
Approx $66MM in cap allocation for next season. Cap is $95.5
Post Deadline Cap favourites
Guess the 5th
POST DEADLINE REBUILDERS
Draft Picks – Puck Pedia Pick Value – based on Matt Perri calculation – https://puckpedia.com/PerriPickValue
ANA – 317.6
BOS – 119.6
BUF – 160.52
CGY – 193.89
CAR – 120.31
CHI – 361.68
COL – 49.96
CBJ – 342.45
DAL – 42.22
DET – 166.17
EDM – 60.65
FLA – 53.94
LAK – 89.16
MIN – 119.62
MTL – 359.7
NAS – 141.59
NJD – 136.82
NYI – 107.06
NYR – 70.17
OTT – 161.53
PHI – 225.37
PIT – 207.36
SJS – 346.87
SEA – 203.62
STL – 143.69
TBL – 51.69
TOR – 46.32
UTA – 179.38
VAN – 89.86
VGK – 69.01
WAS – 93.24
WPG – 76.69
Standings – 20 games left – down the stretch they come!
Note – Kings are 5 points behind Minnesota in Wildcard
Tightening up – Utah and St Louis making it interesting
Connections
LAST WEEK – Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe, Joe Nieuwendyk – Jon Gee / Nora
THIS WEEK – Ryan Smyth, John Anderson, Dylan Cozens, Jim Thompson
Going Streaking
FLA 5W / COL, DAL, VGK 4W
DET 5L
Crazy Stat – Julio Franco

