Which teams made out better than the rest following the NHL trade deadline? Adam Proteau looks at six teams that came out looking good.
It’s true Florida GM Bill Zito dealt away most of his top draft picks in the next three years, but this is a franchise that needs to make noise right away, so there’s an urgency surrounding them that Zito addressed. Fleury’s numbers this year – including a .908 save percentage and a 2.95 goals-against average – are rather pedestrian, but you have to factor in the fact he’s been playing on a not-so-good Blackhawks team. 4. Seattle Kraken: Say what you will about the expansion Kraken’s poor first season, but you have to give GM Ron Francis credit for building up a huge pile of draft picks. 3. Minnesota Wild: We said earlier this month on THN.com that the Wild were likely going to be movers and shakers at the deadline, and lo and behold, Minnesota GM Bill Guerin added depth at forward with former Avs center Tyson Jost and at defense with former Sharks D-man Jacob Middleton. But Guerin’s biggest move came in the form of reigning Vezina Trophy-winner Marc-Andre Fleury, who was acquired from Chicago for a conditional second-round pick. Avs GM Joe Sakic had plenty of salary cap space to work with, and he used just about every available dollar to make the league's best roster that much more dangerous. Now that the NHL’s trade deadline has passed, people will be looking to see which teams made out the best.
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Rookie Martin Fehervary has held down that spot for most of the season and performed adequately, but he's best suited to a more sheltered third-pairing role at this stage of his career. The Oilers made a pair of moves Monday, and neither addition will make a large impact. He's obviously better than Lagesson, but the upgrade isn't worth the steep cost of a second-round pick. Rangers GM Chris Drury made a trio of solid additions on deadline day without mortgaging the team's future. The Canucks didn't make a major splash and trade away J.T. Miller, Brock Boeser, or Conor Garland, but there'll be a larger market for all three in the offseason. On March 14, he landed bruising defenseman Josh Manson for a second-round pick and prospect Drew Helleson - impressive considering Chiarot cost a first-rounder. Sakic wasn't done there, though, as he also added veteran winger Andrew Cogliano for a fourth-round pick. Also, Lehkonen is under team control for at least another year as a pending RFA. He then flipped a third-round pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs for Travis Dermott, who's younger, cheaper, and better than Hamonic. That's some tidy work. He made four trades in the week before the deadline, all of which should be considered victories. Plus he's just 26 years old, carries a cap hit of $725,000, and will only be a restricted free agent at season's end. Nabbing him while only giving up a conditional second-round pick (that becomes a first if the Wild reach the Western Conference Final) is tremendous value.
Here's a look at the winners and losers of the 2022 deadline, from the players who controlled their fate to the teams that took fate into their own hands.
And there are clear indications of buy-in throughout the lineup to gain ground and maybe make a push in the crowded Western Conference field. Did they luck out by only having to give up Owen Tippett, a conditional first-rounder in 2024 (!) and a third-rounder in 2023, because Giroux -- for whatever his reasons -- would only play for the Panthers? Absolutely, but that's hockey: How do you think the Rangers ended up with Artemi Panarin and Adam Fox? Seattle captain Giordano had modified trade protection and the team's backing to choose his next destination, and he ultimately chose to play for the Maple Leafs. Monday couldn't have played out much better for Fleury. He put his time in with Chicago -- a place the veteran clearly enjoyed playing -- and now he gets to reunite with old teammate Bill Guerin in Minnesota and chase another Stanley Cup. At 37 years old, those opportunities are increasingly rare. It's just that the Devils aren't collecting victories that often, and the choice to stand pat is different when you're a perennial contender or up against the salary cap or have already acquired a boatload of future draft choices. Wyshynski: The temptation was no doubt there to really push hard for someone like J. T. Miller of the Vancouver Canucks, a former Ranger who would have been an ideal acquisition at the deadline. In a twist that could only happen to the Golden Knights during this hellish stretch of the season, the trade is being disputed by the National Hockey League Players' Association, as Anaheim might have been on Dadonov's limited no-trade list. Now they've traded him to the Ducks along with their choice of a 2023 or 2024 second-round pick. Instead, they were forced to trade winger Evgenii Dadonov to the Ducks to open $3.375 million in salary-cap space, hoping it will help them bring back some of their injured stars as they hang on to a playoff berth for dear life. Mark Giordano pulled two second-rounders and a third out of Toronto. Ben Chiarot drew a first-rounder from Florida. So did Hampus Lindholm from Boston. There were options that Nill could have exercised to improve Dallas for the future. That will be crucial to decisions made moving forward as he guides the Ducks out of this rebuild and back toward playoff contention. I've been screaming since the offseason that the Avalanche had to address their lack of veteran forward depth, having lost a few key players in the past year.
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Marielle Thompson, who in Beijing added a ski cross silver to her gold from 2014, placed second in the women's season finale to finish third in the World standings. Double Beijing medallist Eliot Grondin won the World Cup men's snowboard cross season finale to finish fourth in the standings. The 2021 Olympic decathlon gold medallist and Lou Marsh Trophy winner nailed his first big competition of the 2022 season, capturing the heptathlon title at track and field's world indoor championships in Serbia. Warner's focus this year is the outdoor world championships in July in Oregon, where he'll be looking to win his first decathlon title after taking a silver and two bronze over the past decade. Beijing silver medallist and 2018 Olympic champion Mikael Kingsbury wrapped up his 10th World Cup moguls season title with a victory on Friday, then won the closing dual moguls event on Saturday to add the dual and overall season titles to his massive trophy collection. The top-ranked Thomas, who won the women's 500-yard freestyle on Thursday to become the first known transgender athlete to capture an NCAA swimming title, placed fifth. The reigning Olympic and world 100m butterfly champion also grabbed a bronze in the 50-yard butterfly for the University of Michigan. Denmark (2-1). Also this evening, you can get caught up on all the recent team shakeups in Canadian curling by watching That Curling Show at 7 p.m. ET on the CBC Sports YouTube channel. Canada's Shaina Pellington (30 points for Arizona in the opening round) and Aaliyah Edwards (seven for UConn) will try to help their teams advance to the Sweet 16 when they play at, respectively, 9 p.m. ET and 10 p.m. ET. The biggest (assuming nothing else major rolls in after our 4 p.m. ET publish time) saw reigning Vezina Trophy winner Marc-Andre Fleury go from Chicago to Minnesota for a conditional second-round draft pick that becomes a first-rounder if the Wild reach the conference finals. Back-to-back-to-back Scotties champion Kerri Einarson and her team are 2-2 after beating Italy and Turkey (who are a combined 1-6) while losing to Norway and defending-champion Switzerland over the weekend in Prince George, B.C. The Canadians play just once today — at 5 p.m. ET vs. With those Stanley Cup contenders getting their shopping done early, there was a dearth of major trades today ahead of the 3 p.m. ET cutoff. 2016 MVP Matt Ryan was traded today from Atlanta to Indianapolis for a third-round pick.
The clock is ticking for NHL general managers with the 2022 trade deadline on Monday.
-- -- UFA With the 2021-22 NHL regular season ending in late April as opposed to early to mid-April, the deadline was extended so that teams would have sufficient time to determine their deadline strategy. The deadline for general managers to call trades into the league office is 3 p.m. ET on Monday, March 21. But that doesn't mean more fireworks aren't in store Monday afternoon.
The NHL trade deadline has passed, so it's now time to look at which teams improved the most with the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs on the horizon.
Jakob Chychrun was the top defenseman rumored to be available but didn't get moved. Based on the playoff format, the Hurricanes won't have to play any of those Atlantic Division teams until the conference finals -- if they even make it that far -- but Carolina's path to the Cup Final is definitely harder now than it was a week ago. Acquiring Vladislav Namestnikov from the Red Wings is unlikely to move the needle. The Avalanche gave up plenty of draft picks and a couple second-tier prospects to make these moves. Dallas getting back in the playoff hunt made trading top-four defenseman John Klingberg unlikely, but now he's able to leave in the summer as an unrestricted free agent. However, they are without question a better team with the additions of defensemen Hampus Lindholm and Josh Brown. Cogliano adds veteran depth and experience to the bottom-six. The Ducks fell out of the playoff race over the last couple weeks and wisely decided to become sellers. After a couple painful playoff exits in recent seasons, Colorado stepped up at this trade deadline to improve its depth at a couple positions. The two-time defending champs always find a way to upgrade at the trade deadline, and they did it again last week by acquiring middle-six forward Brandon Hagel from the Chicago Blackhawks. The cost was pretty steep -- two first-round picks and two prospects. After adding some quality depth over the last few days, it's hard to pick another team to come out of the Eastern Conference this spring. The cost to bring in these players was substantial.
Welcome to 2022 NHL Trade Deadline day. NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen will have the news and all day long, with reporters in place across the League.
Miller struggled and the Blues lost the Western Conference First Round in six games to the Blackhawks. But having an extra NHL defenseman is always a plus and now the Penguins have eight with the addition of Beaulieu. The 37-year-old goalie is in the final season of a three-year, $21 million contract. It'll be Fleury and Cam Talbot in the Wild net for the rest of this season at least. The Bruins will want a player who they can put in their lineup right away if they trade DeBrusk before the deadline. It is second in the NHL and first in the Western Conference with 3.84 goals per game. Johansson has scored 23 points (six goals, 17 assists) in 51 games for the Kraken this season. It makes the most sense for the Predators to keep Forsberg and treat him as their own rental and try to make a run with him. Re-signing Clutterbuck and Parise is a sign that the Islanders feel they can get right back in the mix for the Stanley Cup Playoffs next season and they value each as being a part of it. Sundqvist won the Stanley Cup with the Blues in 2019 playing in a fourth line role. For starters, Copp and Motte are perfect fits for the Rangers in terms of their grinding yet fast style of play. Neither can give the Penguins anything close to the production Rakell can and Pittsburgh still has enough depth in the lineup too.