NHL Trade Buzz: Forsberg likely to remain with Senators

Welcome to the NHL Trade Buzz. The 2022 NHL Trade Deadline on March 21 (3 p.m. ET) is nine days away.
Here's a look around the League at the latest deadline doings:

Ottawa Senators

Anton Forsberg seems unlikely to be traded prior to the deadline, Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said Friday.
The goalie, who can become an unrestricted free agent after the season, is 13-10-2 with a 2.70 goals-against average and .921 save percentage in 28 games (26 starts).
Ottawa (21-31-5) is sixth in the Atlantic Division.
"We still have to field a competitive team from now until the end of the year, and to move a player of [Forsberg's] status for whatever the return might be might not be beneficial for us," Dorion said.
The Senators will rely on Forsberg with Matt Murray out with an upper-body injury. Murray hasn't played since a collision in the crease against the Arizona Coyotes on March 5.
"Won't be back for a little while," Dorion said. "We're going to make sure that Matt is at 100 percent when he gets back in the net."
Murray has been sidelined with numerous injuries this season. He is 5-12-2 with a 3.05 goals-against average and .906 save percentage in 20 games.
Forsberg has started the past three games for Ottawa, allowing six goals, and will start against the Chicago Blackhawks on Saturday (7 p.m. ET; CITY, SNO, TVA2, NBCSCH, ESPN+, NHL LIVE).
"I'm not going to talk about specifics on players about who attracts attention on the trade market," Dorion said. "The one thing I will tell you is, my phone has not been ringing off the hook. But Anton's play has been great. Any time that he's been asked to fill in since we picked him up on waivers (March 17, 2021), I think he's delivered."
Defenseman Josh Brown, and forwards Tyler Ennis, Nicholas Paul and Zach Sanford also can each become an unrestricted free agent (UFA) after the season.
"On some pending UFAs, we've talked to a couple of those agents," Dorion said. "Those players know that we'd like them to be part of our group if it makes sense, and we're working on possible deals. But we're not going to say much more than that."

Arizona Coyotes

Jakob Chychrun said he is trying not to listen to rumors involving him as the trade deadline approaches.
"I'm trying to be present with the guys and come to work every day and have fun, and that's really all you can do," the Coyotes defenseman said Thursday. "It's been going on for a while and I haven't paid much attention to it. Whatever is going to happen is going to happen."
Chychrun, who turns 24 on March 31, has three years remaining on a six-year contract he signed with the Coyotes on Nov. 13, 2018. He has scored 21 points (seven goals, 14 assists) in 46 games this season, including two goals in a 5-4 overtime win against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday.
Arizona general manager Bill Armstrong said they have been taking calls on Chychrun but not actively making them.
"He's a No. 1 (defenseman) that's 23 years old with a team-friendly contract and someone that generated 18 goals the year before, so he has a lot of impact on your team," Armstrong said. "You'd be crazy to move him unless it moved your team forward."
Chychrun said he understands the rumors, particularly with the Coyotes going through a rebuild. Arizona (18-35-4) is last in the Central Division.
"It's part of the game, part of the business, part of what's going on here," he said. "I'm just focused on the present, what I can control. That stuff is all going to sort itself out."

Toronto Maple Leafs

The Maple Leafs could seek to add goaltending help prior to the trade deadline with Jack Campbell out a minimum of two weeks because of a rib injury.
Erik Kallgren was recalled from the Toronto of the American Hockey League on an emergency basis Thursday and allowed one goal facing 11 shots in his NHL debut in relief of Petr Mrazek in a 5-4 overtime loss to the Arizona Coyotes. Mrazek was pulled after allowing four goals on 11 shots in 31:57.
The Maple Leafs play six games in the next 14 days.
"I think [Mrazek is] in a good place, for a guy like him who has been in the league and played a lot throughout his career, now you know you're going to get lots of opportunity," Maple Leafs coach Sheldon Keefe said before the loss. "This situation is an exact reason why you go out and sign a guy like Petr to partner with Jack, so here we are."
The Maple Leafs goaltending was already in question, particularly because of the drop in Campbell's play the past month. He was 3-3-1 with a 4.03 goals-against average and an .872 save percentage in eight games since playing in the 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Game, and was 21-6-3 with a 2.30 GAA, .925 save percentage and four shutouts prior to that.
Mrazek is 10-5-0 with a 3.44 GAA and an .884 save percentage in 16 games (14 starts).
The Maple Leafs (37-16-5) are third in the Atlantic Division and have allowed at least four goals in five straight games and in nine of 11.