The Boston Bruins hit the Olympic break right on the playoff edge, and they look primed to buy this trade deadline. With the New York Rangers already moving Artemi Panarin and leaning into a retool, multiple reports have Boston on the watch list for Vincent Trocheck.
Why Trocheck keeps popping up for Boston
Since Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci left the picture, the Bruins have been chasing a true top-of-the-line option down the middle, and Trocheck fits the type coach Marco Sturm ...
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The Columbus Blue Jackets hit the Olympic break playing their best hockey of the season, and that heater has flipped their trade deadline story from “sell what you can” to “how far can this go?” The Athletic’s Aaron Portzline reported that general manager Don Waddell wants to help the room, but the next few weeks will decide whether this is a real playoff push or just a hot stretch that forces a hard pivot.
Blue Jackets trade deadline: buy now or protect assets
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With all the talk about the Edmonton Oilers' defensive struggles, and the team potentially looking for a top-4, 'Mattias Ekholm (circa 2023) type' addition to their blueline at the deadline, at least one insider feels that's just not going to happen. Frank Seravalli insisted in a recent appearance on the Kevin Karius Show ( h/t David Staples, Edmonton Journal), that the defense is not the front office's focus right now. Honestly, I don’t see it. And I believe, just in the conversations t...
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The pressure is on in New Jersey, as Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald is taking a lot of heat for how the team is playing this season. The Devils entered the Olympic break with a 28-27-2 record, and since Fitzgerald is committed to head coach Sheldon Keefe, he'll be turning to his roster to re-tool ahead of the Mar. 6 trade deadline. The Devils have already added Nick Bjugstad recently, and ever since they lost out on Quinn Hughes joining his brothers, it's become paramount for the team t...
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The Columbus Blue Jackets' 2025-26 campaign wasn't going according to plan through the first half of the season. However, a seven-game winning streak that they carried into the Olympic Break has changed the course for the front office. Now, during this two-week break, instead of planning on which pending unrestricted free agents they'll be selling, the latest intel is that Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell and his staff will be keeping busy doing their best to re-sign ...
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The New Jersey Devils were busy on Wednesday, as the team announced they've waived forward Marc McLaughlin. The 26-year-old was put on waivers with the purpose to send him down to the American Hockey League's Utica Comets. We'll see if he clears by 2pm Thursday, as McLaughlin is now available to all 31 teams to claim, with the worst team in the league, Vancouver Canucks, getting first crack at making a claim. McLaughlin hasn't suited up for the Devils this season, after he suffered an injury d...
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The NHL's trade deadline is set for March 6, and once the Olympic roster freeze is over in less than two weeks, don't be surprised to see the Edmonton Oilers and Toronto Maple Leafs complete a trade together. Multiple reports have surfaced recently stating the Oilers and Maple Leafs are active in trade discussions, and have discussed multiple different scenarios. Their talks include one of Bobby McMann, Nic Roy, Oliver Ekman-Larsson or Scott Laughton heading to Edmonton. The Oilers are in the ...
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The Utah Mammoth are expected to be aggressive at the trade deadline. They're lurking in the weeds, waiting to pounce . The team holds down the first Wild Card berth in the Western Conference, but ownership wants more. There's no doubt they will be buyers by March 6th. The Mammoth could use an additional difference maker for their top nine, according to Thomas Drance and Harman Dayal in The Athletic . Over the past month or so, Utah has been utilizing both K...
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The Montreal Canadiens have played well all season and were playing well heading into the Olympic break, but they are still expected to make at least one upgrade before the trade deadline that approaches quickly after the NHL games start back up. With limited cap space, someone is going to have to be moved out if the Canadiens want to get a larger deal done. The most likely candidate is Patrik Laine for a few reasons. Pierre LeBrun said, "I think there's a chance that his contract gets moved i...
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The Edmonton Oilers are looking for some bottom-6 help, but more specifically, a player who knows his role and is comfortable in his role. A third line center that fits these would be a very good add for the Oilers, and at the same time, be able to move Andrew Mangiapane to free up a roster spot and cap space for the rest of this season and next. The Vancouver Canucks appear to have a great trade target that the Oilers should be interested in, and that's Teddy Blueger. He is in the last year o...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs are going to have an interesting week and a bit coming out of the Olympic break as they sit six points back of a playoff spot and have decisions to make about their roster for this season and in preparation of the future. This is seen as a transition year, the first without Mitch Marner, and attempting to build a more rounded team with the money. That hasn't really worked out, but they are still in the race if they have a strong finish to the season. According to Pierre...
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The Ottawa Senators could have easily leaned into caution ahead of the roster freeze, but the latest word around the league is they are still trying to buy, coming out of the Olympic break. Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Citizen reported that general manager Steve Staios would prefer to add rather than subtract once the Olympic break ends, even after Ottawa chose the status quo before the freeze. The target list is not bargain bin depth either, with league executives telling Garrioch...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs could consider themselves having a rare “too many goalies” problem with the emergence of Dennis Hildeby. That puts Anthony Stolarz in the rumor spotlight, and Philadelphia is right in the middle of it.
That being said, it's more that the Maple Leafs really don't have much to dangle in trade talks that would fetch as much of a return as Stolarz might. Sportsnet insider Nick Kypreos has been beating the drum that Toronto’s crease depth is a legit luxury, and that ...
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The Vancouver Canucks are a clear seller this season after the couple of moves already made earlier this season. They are going to continue moving what they can and one of the players that will be traded is Teddy Blueger, but the price might be a little high for some to hold onto interest and not shop around elsewhere, but just right for others. Thomas Drance reported, "Based on what I'm hearing about Teddy Blueger's market value, Vancouver is looking for at least a third-round pick." That's n...
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Vincent Trocheck is right near the top of most NHL trade boards as we get set to close in on the March 6 deadline. The New York Rangers are looking to sell, and Trocheck's gritty, two-way play, plus his reasonable cap hit of $5.625 for another three years, has many teams salivating about adding him. Vince Mercogliano of The Athletic has proposed a list of 10 potential trade destinations for Trocheck. And while the player does have a 12-team no-trade list to keep in mind, the inside...
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The Edmonton Oilers have upgrades yet to do. Exactly where those will come remains to be seen, but there's a good chance at least one will come at forward. They are close to the salary cap, so ideally, the Oilers will be able to move out at least one body who hasn't lived up to expectations mixed with poor usage. Nick Kypreos said, "The Oilers continue to work the market for Andrew Mangiapane and should be able to find a partner by March 6, though the return isn't likely to be anything major."...
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Though the Minnesota Wild have made the biggest addition of the season (LA close with Artemi Panarin now) with Quinn Hughes, they are still interested in upgrading further. Their forward group isn't where they want it to be, and by trading for Hughes, they sent Marco Rossi and Liam Ohgren to the Vancouver Canucks . The Wild have had some solid performances this season by unexpected players and have a competent top-6, but definitely need more if they're going to compete with the likes of the Da...
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The Minnesota Wild didn’t pay a king’s ransom for Quinn Hughes just to sit back and admire the view. Since that blockbuster, they’ve looked like a real problem in the West, and with a Central Division arms race staring them down, Bill Guerin is going to keep shopping for a true difference-maker down the middle. That is why the Jesper Wallstedt trade noise is slowly starting to gain more steam, and if the Florida Panthers ever got serious about it, the Wild would be looking for a pl...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs might not be making many big moves this trade deadline, but Nick Kypreos ignited some serious speculation about a move they might make this offseason. On air recently, Kypreos said the Leafs should move Morgan Rielly out, then bring Toronto native Darren Raddysh home in free agency. The most interesting bit of the hypothetical was that he did not present it as a maybe. He said it was already a 'done deal'. Kypreos on Real Kyper & Bourne: "What will happen is that ...
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The Edmonton Oilers have themselves a struggling player who needs a change of scenery, in Andrew Mangiapane. The Los Angeles Kings also have a floundering forward, making around the same money ($3.5M to $3.6M) in ex-Oiler Warren Foegele. Who says no to a one-for-one swap of the 29-year-olds? Foegele for Mangiapane. Dollars are almost equal and both have year left. — Jim Matheson (@jimmathesonnhl) February 9, 2026 Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal thinks it makes sense. As does M...
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The Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers don't often trade, but former Maple Leafs generally find themselves in Edmonton sooner or later. A lot have passed through over the last decade and some are still there thriving like Zach Hyman. The West and the East are so different this season that the Oilers are second in their division with 64 points in 58 games and the Maple Leafs have 63 points in 57 games, but Toronto is six points out of a playoff spot. While they have had similar seasons, th...
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Despite the Toronto Maple Leafs winning three games in a row heading into the Olympic break, they still sit six points back of a playoff spot and it isn't an easy hill to climb with four teams in their way and only 25 games remaining. There isn't a ton of time or games before the trade deadline once the freeze is lifted, so some decisions will have to be made in the short term coming out of the break. Toronto has three goalies and only needs two for next season. If they don't go into the seaso...
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The Florida Panthers are in an unfamiliar place as they sit eight points out of a playoff spot in the East at the Olympic break, and aren't getting Aleksander Barkov back during the regular season, all after making it to the Stanley Cup Final three years in a row. The major injuries didn't help the team and they have been above .500, but so is every other team in the Eastern Conference except for the New York Rangers at this point this season. So the trade deadline is going to be interesting f...
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The Detroit Red Wings find themselves in third place in the Atlantic Division, but there's a logjam of four teams fighting for two guaranteed playoff spots from the division and a couple of Wild Card spots. The Wings want to turn on the jets down the stretch, and they've got a specific plan for the trade deadline, as noted by insider Marco D'Amico . Sources have indicated that the Red Wings not only want to grab another top-six pivot, but they want to acquire a veteran center with term a...
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The Utah Mammoth are middle of the pack in offensive rating this season, but they're said to be 'lurking', looking to make a big splash for an offensive upgrade at the trade deadline. The Mammoth hold down the first Wild Card berth in the Western Conference, but they'll need to fortify themselves for the stretch run. They've been engaged in talks for a top-six forward addition. In particular, they'd like a center. Insider Marco D'Amico has linked three big names as players the Mamm...
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