2025 Trade Deadline | Who gets traded?

[Brian39]

Players with as much term left like Binnington, Schenn, Faulk etc rarely ever get moved at the deadline, it would be much likelier for a deal like that to happen in the offseason.

Binner and Faulk only have 2 years left after this one and Schenn has 3.

Hertl went at last year's deadline and he had 6 years of term. The MIttlestadt/Byram trade was 2 days before the deadline last year. Neither had 2+ years of term, but both expire to RFAs and were clearly not rentals. Allen only had 1 more year of term, but that was a deadline trade last year too. The previous season the Canucks traded for Hronek about a week before the deadline. He had a year of term and expired as an RFA after that. A week earlier, the Devils traded for pending RFA Timo Meier with the clear intention to extend him (which they did).

Hell, JT Miller just got moved a couple weeks ago.

Late February up to the deadline is definitely mostly about rentals, but it isn't super rare for buyers to go after guys that can help their team for more than just one playoff push. I don't think a trade is likely and I'd be surprised if Faulk is moved. But I also think that Schenn and Binner are possibly going to be better than any rental that gets moved at their respective positions.

 

[Davimir Tarablad]

Binner and Faulk only have 2 years left after this one and Schenn has 3.

Hertl went at last year's deadline and he had 6 years of term. The MIttlestadt/Byram trade was 2 days before the deadline last year. Neither had 2+ years of term, but both expire to RFAs and were clearly not rentals. Allen only had 1 more year of term, but that was a deadline trade last year too. The previous season the Canucks traded for Hronek about a week before the deadline. He had a year of term and expired as an RFA after that. A week earlier, the Devils traded for pending RFA Timo Meier with the clear intention to extend him (which they did).

Hell, JT Miller just got moved a couple weeks ago.

Late February up to the deadline is definitely mostly about rentals, but it isn't super rare for buyers to go after guys that can help their team for more than just one playoff push. I don't think a trade is likely and I'd be surprised if Faulk is moved. But I also think that Schenn and Binner are possibly going to be better than any rental that gets moved at their respective positions.

Another thing that helps teams move players with term is being out of the flat cap. So there's less need for cap balancing or retention. In a year, we've gone from San Jose retaining 6.5 years on Hertl to Vancouver not having to retain or take a cap dump to move Miller.

I think we might see 1 guy with term go, and I think it'd be Schenn given how much smoke there is surrounding him currently.