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NHL trade deadline Friday, March 6, 2026, at 3pm ET. What are your predictions?
Does Sergei Bobrovsky get moved? Do the Leafs finally rip it apart? What are your predictions?
Does Sergei Bobrovsky get moved? Do the Leafs finally rip it apart? What are your predictions?
I expect the Canucks to attempt another half-assed rebuild, that recent season where they finished 1st in the Pacific and nearly made it to the conference finals gave them a false sense of confidence. Quinn Hughes was the only core member of the team I would have tried to keep, but I guess that's why I don't manage an NHL team. Time will tell how that trade turned out, but unless that 1st round pick becomes a generational talent or Hughes's production falls off a cliff, you don't win a trade like that
I don't think the Leafs have the guts to do a full rebuild either. They need to do something, but with the amount of scrutiny that players get from fans and media there, it's got to be one of the least attractive destinations for free agents or players with no-movement clauses right now.
Seeing Edmonton get Connor Murphy just kinda makes me chuckle. Back when Stan Bowman was the Blackhawks GM, he would often trade for players that had previously left but been part of previously successful Blackhawks teams.
Some things never change I suppose.
I would kill for a goddamn GM that wasn't a retread whose default move is to trade for their old bad to middling team's players.
And now we have Bowman going for his old boys. I guess at least Murphy fits our needs decently well.
I think we're due for a pretty underwhelming Trade Deadline. Big move left to happen should be Rob Thomas. Otherwise with the Olympics compressing things, Hughes being dealt already, and there being far fewer sellers this year overall, this should be one of the slowest Trade Deadlines ever lol.
WELP. Guess I was wrong, Carlson to Anaheim is insane