GDT: 2025 Trade Deadline | Y’all Got Anymore of Them Trades?

[dahrougem2]

I just can't see Carolina getting anything close in return for Mikko as to what they gave up.

They're not getting a top 10 scorer, a young 3C, and two 2nd round picks.

Like I said yesterday, I think they only team, who Mikko would waive his NTC for, that could deal them something of fair value is LA.

I can see the Kings offering Brandt Clarke and Carolina taking it. They're not going to fetch anything close to what they gave up for Mikko, so the best they can probably hope for is a prospect like Clarke plus perhaps a late 1st round pick if they retain 50% of his contract.

Teams that will want to trade for Mikko won't want to move players off their roster to do so, especially since his cap hit will be so cheap.

Someone on the main thread mentioned that Winnipeg could involve Ehlers. That would be pretty close. Obviously Necas has one more year on his deal, and is having a career year. But their careers have very similar numbers otherwise. Ehlers is actually the better scorer of the two. If Winnipeg is offering Ehlers, I'm taking that as Carolina if they are adamant about trading Rantanen.

Winnipeg wants to win a Stanley Cup, they want to add to Ehlers not move him for Rantanen. They know Ehlers works in Winnipeg, they don't know if Rantanen does.

 

[EdAVSfan]

Fascinated that NJ is still buying after the Hughes announcement.

 

[LOFIN]

Winnipeg wants to win a Stanley Cup, they want to add to Ehlers not move him for Rantanen. They know Ehlers works in Winnipeg, they don't know if Rantanen does.

Agreed, and fits basically all the contenders. I think someone mentioned Ehlers and a 1st, and I just found that way too pricey for what is an UFA (although Ehlers is as well). Probably wasn't a credible Winnipeg reporter that floated that out there.

 

[RoyIsALegend]

 

[pockets]

 

[EdAVSfan]

Exactly in line with what the Avs paid for Lindgren.

 

[The Pwnerer]

This market is ASS for buyers. Please trade off some turds (Colton, Wood) Cmac and recoup some assets.

 

[LOFIN]

This market is ASS for buyers. Please trade off some turds (Colton, Wood) Cmac and recoup some assets.

Colton has a NTC

 

[The Pwnerer]

Colton has a NTC

If he gets to go with his butt buddy Wood, he would waive to anywhere even Winnipeg.

 

[MacKaRtin]

Someone on the main thread mentioned that Winnipeg could involve Ehlers. That would be pretty close. Obviously Necas has one more year on his deal, and is having a career year. But their careers have very similar numbers otherwise. Ehlers is actually the better scorer of the two. If Winnipeg is offering Ehlers, I'm taking that as Carolina if they are adamant about trading Rantanen.

Rantanen would have to agree to go there though. Would he waive?

 

[kchan9]

If Avs re-aquire Naz, I'm buying his jersey right away

 

[Chiarelli]

How are you going to make the cap work?

Colton, wood, retention, depth player. There are ways

Mitts can pound sand. Horrible player.

I’d bet Mitts still is a better player than Ritchie ever ends up… someday. Keep nhl bodies around

 

[dahrougem2]

No idea why the Devils are buying. They are going nowhere without Hughes

Colton, wood, retention, depth player. There are ways


I’d bet Mitts still is a better player than Ritchie ever ends up… someday. Keep nhl bodies around

I will HAPPILY take that bet.

Mittelstadt is a mediocre, soft 3rd line center who is bad defensively.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[MacKaRtin]

I can see the Kings offering Brandt Clarke and Carolina taking it. They're not going to fetch anything close to what they gave up for Mikko, so the best they can probably hope for is a prospect like Clarke plus perhaps a late 1st round pick if they retain 50% of his contract.

How do you explain Tampa giving two firsts, a second, and an NHL player for a couple months of Gourde plus two runs with Bjorkstrand?

Is that Tampa being Tampa or is that actually the market? If Bjorkstrand essentially fetches two firsts, shouldn't a double-retained Rantanen fetch more (even without the extra year)?

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

NHL rumblings: Rantanen talk heats up, plus updates on Nelson, Ferraro, Canadiens and more

Also: Good vibes in Utah with meaningful games in March and a franchise not selling for the first time in ages.

www.nytimes.com

One important note: The Canes as of Thursday morning had not given permission to teams to speak directly to Rantanen’s camp, led by Andy Scott, about a possible extension. For the moment, that seems to rule out a sign-and-trade scenario, but that’s always subject to change.

But it also makes sense. If Rantanen isn’t ready to make a decision on Carolina’s contract extension offer because he’s just been with the team only six weeks or so (minus the two weeks at 4 Nations), why would he suddenly be ready to sign an extension with another team he hasn’t even played with yet if he gets traded?

And it’s important to reiterate that the Canes aren’t 100 percent trading Rantanen. It will all come down to comparing the trade offers on the table for Rantanen versus the value in keeping him as a rental in an effort to go win a Stanley Cup this season

 

[Ceremony]

NHL rumblings: Rantanen talk heats up, plus updates on Nelson, Ferraro, Canadiens and more

Also: Good vibes in Utah with meaningful games in March and a franchise not selling for the first time in ages.

www.nytimes.com

Bring him home.

 

[Balthazar]

Imagine giving up Byram++ (not to mention the last two years of mediocrity because of 2C) to acquire the guy you should have just given the money to years ago.

Here's the full picture of a potential Mitts for Kadri trade:

- We could have signed Kadri for a lower AAV than CGY did
- We lost the best years of that contract and buying the bad ones (he's 34, he's going to decline real soon)
- We traded Byram for Mitts

This isn't "right the wrong". This is atrocious management.

I don't know how CMac could live with that quite honestly.

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

I can see the Kings offering Brandt Clarke and Carolina taking it. They're not going to fetch anything close to what they gave up for Mikko, so the best they can probably hope for is a prospect like Clarke plus perhaps a late 1st round pick if they retain 50% of his contract.

Teams that will want to trade for Mikko won't want to move players off their roster to do so, especially since his cap hit will be so cheap.

Byfield + Clarke for MIkko + Kotkaniemi + a pick and/or prospect

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[Ceremony]

The reacquisition of Rantanen can go something like this:

 

[hockeyfish]

On Seravalli's show, they are claiming that the Avs could infact trade back for Rants. I still doubt that is true. Makes no sense.

 

[Pokecheque]

On Seravalli's show, they are claiming that the Avs could infact trade back for Rants. I still doubt that is true. Makes no sense.

They can't. That's stupid of them to even say so.

 

[hockeyfish]

They can't. That's stupid of them to even say so.

Right. Thats like saying Toronto could trade Marner and a 2nd to Vancouver and Vancouver could retain 50% and trade him back to Toronto. That would clearly be stopped by the league, even if there isn't something specific in the CBA against it.

 

[Ceremony]

Right. Thats like saying Toronto could trade Marner and a 2nd to Vancouver and Vancouver could retain 50% and trade him back to Toronto. That would clearly be stopped by the league, even if there isn't something specific in the CBA against it.

This would be allowed though because this wasn't cap circumvention this was just Carolina being run really badly.