Rumor: 2026 Trade Rumors and Free Agency: Offseason Edition

[Balthazar]

Interesting twist

 

[Alex Jones]

It never ends with Seattle, does it? More of the same bland, no high-end players. Just a bunch of average to slightly above average players (and a lot of below average mixed in) hoping to squeak into a wildcard spot.

Insane difference in management styles between Vegas and Seattle. One franchise seems to want to win at all costs, the other seems happy being the Minnesota Wild circa 2002-2020.

Seattle has to start making some moves to at least be more competitive within the next year or two. The SuperSonics coming back is a real problem for the Kraken

 

[dahrougem2]

Interesting twist

That rubbed VEGAS the wrong way? These dudes fired Cassidy with weeks to go and basically told Torts he can only come back if he wins the Stanley Cup

 

[dahrougem2]

Seattle has to start making some moves to at least be more competitive within the next year or two. The SuperSonics coming back is a real problem for the Kraken

I don't believe the Kraken will be long for Seattle tbh. Lack of winning + NBA returning is a bad, bad mix.

 

[MacKaRtin]

I don't believe the Kraken will be long for Seattle tbh. Lack of winning + NBA returning is a bad, bad mix.

Nah, I don't think so Seattle should be good. Lots of corporate presence and lots of money in the city. Would it help if they didn't have a middling and unexciting team? Sure. But I can't see they moving

 

[LOFIN]

Nah, I don't think so Seattle should be good. Lots of corporate presence and lots of money in the city. Would it help if they didn't have a middling and unexciting team? Sure. But I can't see they moving

Nobody is suggesting that they would be moving, that would be stupid. But they have failed to take a proper foothold at the market, and it's not going to be any easier in the future.

 

[forsbergavs32]

Have we traded Nuke and @the_fan yet?

 

[Bill Peckerskull]

 

[The AntiBob]

We'll accommodate some space and take Samuelsson..

 

[Balthazar]

Nothing is happening around the league. The Colton trade certainly didn’t open the floodgates.

 

[EdAVSfan]

Nothing is happening around the league. The Colton trade certainly didn’t open the floodgates.

I think for the Avs at least, teams that are interested are seeing what they can grab from UFA and if players are willing to go there.

Seattle for example, is likely thinking they could offer a ton of money to Tuch, so need a concrete answer on whether that’s possible.

Those convos are happening probably now with the UFAs. I’d expect a little bit more activity in the last couple of days before the draft. Wednesday-Friday this week we should see a few moves here and there from teams

 

[LOFIN]

Nothing is happening around the league. The Colton trade certainly didn’t open the floodgates.

Meh, this is the year that something happens!

I do think some things will happen before or at the draft.

 

[Balthazar]

Meh, this is the year that something happens!

I do think some things will happen before or at the draft.

Well, that’s not exactly a bold prediction, is it?

 

[Balthazar]

 

[EdAVSfan]

If true, Chayka is all over the place.

Trading Knies for a top 10 pick is more of a delay in competing.
But then they trade for a 30 year old Raddysh.

Like, I don’t get the path here. Are they trying to win or re-tool?

 

[shadow1]

 

[The Abusement Park]

Lmao

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Dickinson was good for them and is a decent player, but by no means should he be signing a $20,000,000 contract.

 

[AvsWraith]

Guessing Chicago with the 4th pick. Although, if I were the Hawks, I would just keep drafting top prospects a little while longer.

 

[The AntiBob]

Dickinson was good for them and is a decent player, but by no means should he be signing a $20,000,000 contract.

I think I'd take Dickinson over McCarron...

 

[dahrougem2]

Low end 3C money for a low end 3C

 

[The AntiBob]

Hopefully someone overpays assets for Drury (Roy)..

Or at least we consider moving both... Seems like everyone locking up their centers for the long.


@RoyIsALegend any chance you've heard anything about Nic Roy?

 

[zxczxczxczxczxcz]

If true, Chayka is all over the place.

Trading Knies for a top 10 pick is more of a delay in competing.
But then they trade for a 30 year old Raddysh.

Like, I don’t get the path here. Are they trying to win or re-tool?

A high pick might be able to contribute immediately. From last year's draft Schaefer, Misa, Frondell, Martone, Kindel were definitely already at a NHL level. That's 5 out of the first 11 picks. Top-10 is usually high enough that you'll get a guy who's close to being ready, and the odds are higher if you avoid project players. Now, Knies is already a good NHL'er, why bother? It might be that they have more need for another center or a defenseman than a winger. They still have to pick a winger with their own pick because those two guys at the top project so much higher than anyone else.

 

[LOFIN]

 

[RoyIsALegend]

Hopefully someone overpays assets for Drury (Roy)..

Or at least we consider moving both... Seems like everyone locking up their centers for the long.


@RoyIsALegend any chance you've heard anything about Nic Roy?

I haven’t heard anything about Nic Roy.

Nichushkin, Drury, and one more player.

No point in mentioning the 3rd player; if it doesn’t materialize, people know the name was out there. Nothing to be gained from that.

Everybody has known Nichushkin, Drury, and Colton are/were “out there.”