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