Will we see another surprising trade this summer?
As we get closer to the NHL Draft and after the Florida Panthers made the big swing in acquiring Brady Tkachuk from the Ottawa Senators, fans are already guessing what the next move is going to be.
While free agency is considered to be one of the biggest portions of the NHL calendar, but with so many big names potentially on the move with term on their contracts, trade talks are at a high that we haven’t seen in some time.
On Monday’s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE, David Pagnotta joined Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton to explain what the next big trade could be this offseason.
David Pagnotta: I’m expecting more moves and more fireworks this week. … The Connor Hellebuyck stuff is getting louder. There’s what appears to be some legit conversations happening there with the Jets. Obviously, we’re waiting on Dylan Larkin, Is it just a foregone conclusion now? Take what you offered for Brady and just give that to Detroit for Larkin, maybe Steve Yzerman wants something different, but it seems like there’s a natural progression of a fit there. So, obviously keep tabs on that.
A lot more noise coming out of Vancouver again, I just mentioned DeBrusk, but also Brock Boeser, his name’s out there, and Elias Pettersson as well, now that it looks like Vancouver is willing to retain a little bit of that contract to $2.5 million. If you get him down to $9 million per year on a deal that makes it a little more palatable for some teams to look at. Is it a Montreal, is it an LA, is it another team?
So, I’m expecting two or three big moves here between now and the end of draft weekend, and it wouldn’t shock me if we get something totally out of left field, everyone’s kind of focused on the on the primary targets right now – Darnell Nurse and Morgan Rielly and Larkin and Hellebuyck that we talked about, and so on, but is there that that out of left field…things are starting to get a little hush-hush across the board, usually that means there’s something going on.
You can watch the full segment and entire episode here…