NHL Trade Deadline live blog

Welcome to the 2023 NHL Trade Deadline. The cutoff for any trades is 3 p.m. ET today, with several including big-name players having been completed in the past few weeks. But there is still plenty of activity expected with some teams gearing up for a long run in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, while others build for the future.
NHL.com senior writer Dan Rosen will provide all the news, rumors and analysis up to and past the deadline.

4:05 p.m. ET

It's done. There could be one or two more trades lurking in the queue at NHL Central Registry, but the 2023 NHL Trade Deadline has passed, and Friday met the expectations we had for it.
It was about depth moves because all the big moves had already happened.
But deadline day did feature several teams making upgrades that seem small now but will look huge if they go on for a Stanley Cup run.
The Minnesota Wild are getting defenseman John Klingberg and forwaard Oskar Sundqvist, solid buys for pending unrestricted free agent players who could make an impact in multiple areas. They traded forward Jordan Greenway to the Buffalo Sabres.
Speaking of that, Greenway, who is 26 years old, fits with the Sabres now and in the future because he's signed for two more seasons ($3 million salary cap charge). The Wild needed the cap space for next season; the Sabres are happy to use it on Greenway.
Similarly, the New Jersey Devils added for now and the future by acquiring forward Curtis Lazar from the Vancouver Canucks. He's signed for two more seasons ($1 million cap charge) and could be an extra forward for the Devils or a bottom-six regular.
The Pittsburgh Penguins added defenseman Dmitry Kulikov and forward Nick Bonino. Both are pending UFAs. Kulikov will add to their back end, giving the Penguins eight NHL defensemen. They always say you can't have enough depth on 'D'. Bonino should be a fourth-line center and penalty killer. The Penguins are 71.2 percent on the PK in their past 18 games.
The Winnipeg Jets added Vladislav Namestnikov from the San Jose Sharks, who acquired him Wednesday from the Tampa Bay Lightning. Winnipeg has some banged up forwards (Pierre-Luc Dubois, Mason Appleton and Cole Perfetti), so Namestnikov could help right away.
The Ottawa Senators got Patrick Brown from the Philadelphia Flyers, just another forward that they can plug and play. Depth matters.
The Los Angeles Kings added forward Zach MacEwen from the Flyers, giving up a fifth-round pick and forward Brendan Lemieux. MacEwen is a pending restricted free agent under team control. Lemieux is a pending UFA.
But what didn't happen might be the most surprising of all: James van Riemsdyk, a pending unrestricted free agent, was not traded by the Flyers.
Philadelphia general manager Chuck Fletcher said he did not receive any firm trade offers for van Riemsdyk. He said they made the other 31 teams aware that he was available, that they would retain salary and even take back a contract, but nothing materialized.
So, neither van Riemsdyk was traded Friday, because Trevor van Riemsdyk, a Washington Capitals defenseman and the younger of the two brothers, also stayed put despite being a pending UFA. There could be a contract extension coming instead.
Brothers were traded for each other, with forward Brett Ritchie going from the Calgary Flames to the Arizona Coyotes in a trade that sent forward Nick Ritchie to Calgary. Defenseman Troy Stecher also went to Calgary and defenseman Connor Mackey to the Coyotes.
The Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Tampa Bay Lightning, Carolina Hurricanes, New York Rangers, New York Islanders, Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, Edmonton Oilers and Vegas Golden Knights were quiet Friday because they did all their dealing in advance of deadline day.

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3:30 p.m. ET

How about a fun storyline for a trade? Brothers getting traded for each other. It reportedly has happened for Nick Ritchie and Brett Ritchie.
According to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman, it's defenseman Troy Stetcher and Nick Ritchie being traded to the Calgary Flames from the Arizona Coyotes for forward Connor Mackey and Brett Ritchie.
Brett Ritchie is the older of the two at 29 years old. Nick is 27. They're from Orangeville, Ontario.
Brett had eight points (six goals, two assists) in 34 games with the Flames this season. Nick had 21 points (nine goals, 12 assists) in 58 games with the Coyotes.
One thing that has to be for certain is neither has to find a place to live in their new hometowns. They can just swap homes.

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3:20 p.m. ET

John Klingberg was traded to the Minnesota Wild just before the deadline passed, according to TSN's Pierre Lebrun. Nothing official yet on this one, but the Anaheim Ducks were looking to move the pending unrestricted free agent defenseman and it looks like they did.
Klingberg signed a one-year contract with the Ducks on July 29. It hasn't been the season he or the Ducks were hoping the Swedish defenseman would have. He has 24 points (eight goals, 16 assists) and a minus-28 rating in 50 games.
He averages 2:07 of ice time per game on the power play, second among Anaheim defenseman behind Cam Fowler (2:36), but Klingberg has only six points on the power play and the Ducks are last in the NHL at 15.6 percent.
That said, perhaps a change of scenery could get Klingberg back to what he used to be with the Dallas Stars, when he was regularly producing on the power play at a 0.25 point per game pace.
The Wild are 10th in the NHL on the power play at 22.9 percent.
Earlier Friday, the Wild acquired forward Oskar Sundqvist from the Detroit Red Wings but traded forward Jordan Greenway to the Buffalo Sabres.

3:10 p.m. ET

The Ottawa Senators weren't done after all. They have acquired forward Patrick Brown from the Philadelphia Flyers for a sixth-round pick in the in the 2023 NHL Draft.
Earlier Friday, Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said he would continue to look in the market but he thought their shopping might be done. It apparently was not, because he found a depth forward in the bargain bin.
Brown, a pending unrestricted free agent forward, has seven points (two goals, five assists) in 43 games with the Flyers this season.
In addition, ESPN's Emily Kaplan reported that she has heard the Flyers did not trade James van Riemsdyk, who is also a pending UFA.
Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported not long ago that van Riemsdyk was being shipped to the Detroit Red Wings, but that fell through and it appears the forward is staying put in Philadelphia.

3:01 p.m. ET

The deadline has passed, but that does not mean everything stops. Teams have to have their transactions in the trade queue with NHL Central Registry by 3 p.m. ET, but there could be a backup, which causes in some trades becoming official.
So don't go away. There's still some more to come, like what in the world is happening with Philadelphia Flyers forward James van Riemsdyk, who was reportedly going to the Detroit Red Wings but now is not, at least as of this minute.

2:55 p.m. ET

James van Riemsdyk was reportedly going to the Detroit Red Wings. But now that's reportedly not happening. It's obviously a fluid situation, but as of now the Philadelphia Flyers pending unrestricted free agent forward has not been traded.

2:45 p.m. ET

The Pittsburgh Penguins are reportedly making another addition, acquiring defenseman Dmitry Kulikov from the Anaheim Ducks. The Penguins are reportedly sending forward Brock McGinn and their own third-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft to the Ducks, who are retaining 50 percent of Kulikov's remaining cap charge.
The Penguins also acquired center Nick Bonino in a three team trade with the San Jose Sharks and Montreal Canadiens on Friday. Bonino and Kulikov are pending unrestricted free agents.
Trading McGinn is key. He was assigned to Wilkes-Barre/Scranton of the American Hockey League on Thursday, but is signed for two more seasons with a cap charge of $2.75 million. Getting that contract off the Penguins' cap will be important after this season.
For now, the 32-year-old Kulikov gives Pittsburgh eight defensemen on the NHL roster.
Where he fits on the Penguins depth chart remains to be seen, but if they are giving up a third round pick and a player to get him you have to figure that they plan to play him. He's a left-handed shot so he could replace Pierre-Olivier Joseph on the third pair with Jan Rutta.
The point of the trade has to be the fact that it gives the Penguins more depth at the position, with an extra righty (Chad Ruhwedel has been a healthy scratch the past four games, all wins for the Penguins) and lefty.

2:30 p.m. ET

The Buffalo Sabres appear to be jumping into the trade market, reportedly acquirimg forward Jordan Greenway from the Minnesota Wild for a second-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft and a fifth-round pick in the 2024 draft.
Greenway has seven points (two goals, five assists) in 45 games with the Wild this season. He is signed for two more seasons with a salary cap charge of $3 million.
For Buffalo, Greenway, 26, fits into the age group of their core group of forwards that includes Jeff Skinner, 30, Victor Olofsson, 27, Tage Thompson, 25, Casey Mittelstadt, 24, Dylan Cozens, 22, Peyton Krebs, 22, Jack Quinn, 21, J.J. Peterka, 21.
Sabres general manager Kevyn Adams said he would not acquire a player before the deadline that would take ice time away from one of their core players. Greenway adds to the core.
For the Wild, they cleared some cap space that could be valuable for them both now and going into next season and beyond, particularly because of the dead money they have on their cap from buyouts of forward Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.
The Wild also reportedly turned around and added Oskar Sundqvist in a trade with the Detroit Red Wings for their own fourth-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. The versatile forward has 21 points (seven goals, 14 assists) in 52 games this season.
This is a smart bit of business for the Wild. They traded Greenway to clear the cap room, picking up two valuable draft picks in the process, but didn't rob from the team because they added Sundqvist, who can fill the role that Greenway had and maybe produce more offensively too.
But the key is Sundqvist will be an unrestricted free agent after this season. That means the cap space Minnesota cleared in the Greenway trade will remain open after this season, which was the point of that trade with Buffalo.

2 p.m. ET

There is one hour remaining before the deadline and still some intrigue out there.
The Philadelphia Flyers have not yet traded forward James van Riemsdyk. It is expected they will. There has been some reports about the Vegas Golden Knights, Colorado Avalanche and Seattle Kraken being interested in the pending unrestricted free agent forward.
The Anaheim Ducks have not yet traded defenseman John Klingberg. It's been quiet on all fronts about him, but why would he remain in Anaheim beyond 3 p.m. ET when the Ducks aren't going to the Stanley Cup Playoffs and he's a pending unrestricted free agent?
What about the goalie market for James Reimer (Sharks) and, potentially though unlikely, Cam Talbot (Ottawa Senators). Why the Senators would trade Talbot at this point makes zero sense since they're in the race, but stranger things have happened.
What we do know is Vladislav Namestnikov was traded, again. The Winnipeg Jets acquired the forward from the San Jose Sharks, who acquired him from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday. He never played a game for the Sharks, who are getting a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft in return.
The Jets are Namestnikov's eighth NHL team since the start of the 2019-20 season, if you count the Sharks. It's also the third time in the past four seasons that he's been traded at the deadline, though this is the first time he's been traded twice.

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1:52 p.m. ET

The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired center Nick Bonino in a three-team trade with the San Jose Sharks and Montreal Canadiens.
Bonino, a 34-year-old pending unrestricted free agent with 19 points (10 goals, nine assists) in 59 games this season, will be going back to the team with whome he won the Stanley Cup with in 2016 and 2017.
He has familiarity with the Penguins and coach Mike Sullivan. He'll fill in as the fourth line center, a spot that opened when Pittsburgh traded Teddy Blueger to the Vegas Golden Knights as part of a NHL salary cap clearing mission to acquire forward Mikael Granlund from the Nashville Predators.
Bonino should be a key part of Pittsburgh's penalty kill. It is 71.2 percent in 18 games since Jan. 18. It was 81.5 percent in the first 44 games of the season.
To make it happen, first the Sharks had to send Bonino and their own fifth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft to the Canadiens for the rights to defenseman Arvid Henrikson.
The Sharks then traded the rights to defenseman Tony Sund to the Penguins for Pittsburgh's fifth round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft and its seventh round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft.
And, finally, the Canadiens traded Bonino to the Penguins for the rights to Sund. Montreal also retained 50 percent of Bonino's remaining cap charge to make it work for the Penguins.

12:30 p.m. ET

Vladislav Namestnikov is reportedly on the move again.
According to Sportsnet, Namestnikov has been traded to the Winnipeg Jets from the San Jose Sharks, who acquired the veteran forward from the Tampa Bay Lightning on Wednesday. He never played a game for the Sharks, who are getting a fourth-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft in return for Namestnikov.
The Jets will be Namestnikov's eighth NHL team since the start of the 2019-20 season, if you count the Sharks. It's also the third time in the past four seasons that he's been traded by the deadline, though this is the first time he's been traded twice.
Regardless, the Jets are getting a versatile forward who had 15 points (six goals, nine assists) in 57 games for the Lightning this season. He had a combined 30 points (16 goals, 14 assists) in 75 games split between the Detroit Red Wings and Dallas Stars last season. He's a value add because he can be shifted around anywhere in the forward group.
The Jets are 1-5-1 in their past seven games and they're banged up at the forward position with Pierre-Luc Dubois, Mason Appleton and Cole Perfetti all not expected to play against the Edmonton Oilers on Friday.

12:10 p.m. ET

The Philadelphia Flyers have made a trade, but no, it doesn't involve James van Riemsdyk, or Kevin Hayes for that matter.
The Flyers traded forward Zack MacEwen to the Los Angeles Kings for a fifth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft and pending unrestricted free agent forward Brendan Lemieux.
MacEwen is a pending restricted free agent, which means he's under team control, but clearly the Flyers value the draft pick more than the player at this point. What they do with Lemieux is unclear. If there's a market for him, it makes sense to flip him elsewhere.
The Kings obviously value MacEwen more than Lemieux. They're similar players and each is 26 years old, but MacEwen is under team control as a pending RFA. He also has nine points (four goals, five assists) in 46 games as opposed to Lemieux's three points, all assists, in 27 games.
The Flyers have to have more moves coming. We'll see.

11:50 a.m. ET

The New Jersey Devils have acquired forward Curtis Lazar from the Vancouver Canucks for a fourth-round pick in the 2024 NHL Draft.
Devils general manager Tom Fitzgerald talked Sunday about the potential to add more depth to the lineup after acquiring forward Timo Meier from the San Jose Sharks.
Fitzgerald originally thought defenseman Scott Harrington, also acquired in the trade with San Jose, would be a depth add, but he was placed on waivers and claimed by the Anaheim Ducks.
But Lazar, who has two seasons left on a three-year contract, is the epitome of a depth add. He can slide into the Devils bottom-six forward group, but he does not have to be a regular in the lineup. He is insurance in case of an injury, particular to any of their centers.
The 28-year-old has five points (three goals, two assists) in 45 games this season. He has not played since Feb. 15 because of a lower-body injury. But he was activated Thursday.

11:45 a.m. ET

Trevor van Riemsdyk might be off the board even though the Washington Capitals have been sellers in this market and the defenseman is a pending unrestricted free agent.
Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported that he has heard the Capitals have decided to keep van Riemsdyk for the rest of this season because of their injury situation on the blue line after Nick Jensen and Martin Fehervary were each injured in a 3-2 overtime win against the Anaheim Ducks on Wednesday.
The Capitals are also missing John Carlson.
Friedman also reported that van Riemsdyk and the Capitals could already be discussing a new contract. He said that is unconfirmed, though.
The Capitals only have Carlson, Jensen and Rasmus Sandin as defensemen signed for next season.

11:15 a.m. ET

The Ottawa Senators did their shopping already and while they may still be perusing the discount rack, it doesn't seem like they'll be heading to the register with any big-ticket items Friday.
"We'll take a look at what happens, but I think we've probably made our moves," Senators general manager Pierre Dorion said on TSN on Friday.
The Senators' big move was to acquire defenseman Jakob Chychrun from the Arizona Coyotes on Wednesday. Chychrun made his Ottawa debut in a 5-3 win against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden on Thursday, logging 19:16 of ice time with a team-high five blocked shots.
It was Chychrun's first game since Feb. 10. He was held out of the Coyotes lineup for trade-related reasons. He also didn't arrive in New York until early Thursday morning and did not participate in the Senators morning skate at MSG.
"Considering [he] hadn't played in three weeks, hadn't had a practice [and] we play different systems than Arizona, I think he was outstanding," Dorion said. "I think he showed us his puck moving ability, he played with urgency. He comes as advertised and I think he's only going to get better."
Ottawa also acquired forward Julien Gauthier and a conditional seventh-round pick in the 2023 NHL Draft from the Rangers for forward Tyler Motte on Feb. 19.

11 a.m. ET

The Pittsburgh Penguins are acquiring center Nick Bonino from the San Jose Sharks, according to multiple media reports.
Bonino, a 34-year-old pending unrestricted free agent, will be going back to the team with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 2016 and 2017 if and when the trade becomes official.
The key here for the Penguins is that Bonino has familiarity with the team and the way it plays. Pittsburgh coach Mike Sullivan has familiarity with Bonino and what he can do, even though he hasn't played for the Penguins in nearly six seasons.
Bonino has 19 points (10 goals, nine assists) in 59 games with the Sharks this season.
He likely will fill Pittsburgh's fourth-line center position, opened when they traded Teddy Blueger to the Vegas Golden Knights as part of a cap clearing mission to acquire forward Mikael Granlund from the Nashville Predators.
Bonino should also be a key part of Pittsburgh's penalty kill, which needs help. It is 71.2 percent in 18 games since Jan. 18, and it is 29th in the NHL this season. It was 81.5 percent in the first 44 games.
Drew O'Connor will likely move from center to wing with Bonino's arrival. The Penguins will now have 13 healthy forwards too.
The Penguins (31-21-9) are making moves to try to lock up a spot in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a 17th straight season. They enter Friday holding the first wild card from the Eastern Conference.

10:30 a.m. ET

The Philadelphia Flyers want to trade forward James van Riemsdyk. TSN's Chris Johnston is reporting they're looking for a third-round pick in return and that the Vegas Golden Knights, Winnipeg Jets and Seattle Kraken are interested.
It certainly seems like the Flyers are going to have to get a third team involved to move van Riemsdyk because of his $7 million NHL salary cap charge.
Van Riemsdyk has 23 points (nine goals, 14 assists) in 41 games this season. He's 33 years old and he can still be a netfront presence for a contending team that might need more of that from its middle-six forward group. He scored 24 goals last season, nine on the power play.
It would be surprising if van Riemsdyk wasn't traded in the next few hours even if the Flyers have to settle for less than a third-round pick in return. He's a pure rental and Philadelphia is not going to the Stanley Cup Playoffs, so it makes zero sense to keep him.

9:45 a.m. ET

The St. Louis Blues added another piece for next season by acquiring forward
Jakub Vrana
from the Detroit Red Wings for forward Dylan McLaughlin and a seventh-round pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.
The Red Wings have already loaned McLaughlin to Springfield of the American Hockey League. That's where he was already playing, scoring one goal in six games.
Vrana has one season remaining on a three-year contract he signed Aug. 10, 2021. Financial terms were not disclosed at the time.
The Blues are taking a flier that Vrana will become an impact player again. He has had a tough season that also included time spent in the NHL/NHLPA Player Assistance Program. He went into the program Oct. 19 after playing in two games and was reinstated Dec. 16.
Since coming back, Vrana has no points in three games.
However, the 27-year-old from the Czech Republic had back-to-back seasons of 20-plus goals for the Washington Capitals from 2018-20, scoring 24 in 82 games in 2018-19 and 25 in 69 games in 2019-20, when he had an NHL-high 52 points.
The Blues are clearly hoping they can find that game from Vrana again, starting this season but certainly next season. They paid the small price of a 27-year-old minor-leaguer and a seventh-round pick to find out if Vrana can be an impact player.

9:30 a.m. ET

The Anaheim Ducks are a team to watch.
Anaheim has defensemen John Klingberg, Kevin Shattenkirk and Dmitry Kulikov on the block. All are pending unrestricted free agents, and Klingberg and Kulikov were held out of the Ducks lineup against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday for trade-related reasons.
Klingberg signed a one-year contract with the Ducks on July 29. It hasn't been the season he or the Ducks were hoping the Sweden-born defenseman would have. He has 24 points (eight goals, 16 assists) and is minus-28 in 50 games.
He averages 2:07 of ice time per game on the power play, second among Anaheim defensemen behind Cam Fowler (2:36), but Klingberg has only six points on the power play and the Ducks are last in the NHL at 15.6 percent.
That said, perhaps a change of scenery could get Klingberg back to what he used to be with the Dallas Stars, when he was regularly producing on the power play at a 0.25 point per game pace.
The New York Islanders (16.8 percent) are 28th in the NHL and last on the power play among the teams currently in position to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They are reportedly in the market for a defenseman. They have gotten 21 points total from defensemen on the power play this season, including 16 from Noah Dobson.
Keep an eye on the Islanders, the Ducks and Klingberg. It could be a fit.

8:30 a.m. ET

The trade sending forward Max Domi to the Dallas Stars became official early this morning. But it might not be the last move the Chicago Blackhawks make in their deadline sale.
Forwards Andreas Athanasiou and Jujhar Khaira, defenseman Jarred Tinordi and goalie Alex Stalock are all pending unrestricted free agents who could be traded Friday.
Athanasiou is the most attractive option of the bunch. The speedy forward has 14 goals and 22 points in 60 games this season. He is currently second on the Blackhawks in shots on goal (118), because they traded Patrick Kane (182) and Domi (143).
The Blackhawks, clearly in rebuild mode, have made eight trades since Feb. 22, moving out forwards Kane (New York Rangers), Domi (Dallas Stars), Sam Lafferty (Toronto Maple Leafs), Josiah Slavin (Anaheim Ducks), and defensemen Jake McCabe (Maple Leafs) and Jack Johnson (Colorado Avalanche).
Chicago (21-35-5), which is last in the West, is set up with draft capital, holding 14 picks in the first two rounds of the next three drafts (six in the first round, eight in the second round).
More could be coming Friday.

2 a.m. ET

Who is left?
Friday is Trade Deadline day in the NHL, but it's been trade season since Jan. 30, when the New York Islanders acquired Bo Horvat from the Vancouver Canucks.
We've seen some of the game's biggest names in the past decade-plus change teams, namely Patrick Kane and Vladimir Tarasenko, who went to the New York Rangers, Ryan O'Reilly to the Toronto Maple Leafs, Timo Meier to the New Jersey Devils, and Jonathan Quick to the Vegas Golden Knights by way of the Columbus Blue Jackets.
The Maple Leafs have changed a third of their skating roster (not including goalies). The Rangers changed a third of their top-six forward group with Kane and Tarasenko. The Boston Bruins have become, dare we say, a better team with their additions of Dmitry Orlov, Garnet Hathaway and Tyler Bertuzzi. Jakob Chychrun was finally traded after more than a year of speculation, going to the Ottawa Senators, who are in the Stanley Cup Playoff race.
The Eastern Conference has loaded up in a big way with all the teams currently in a playoff position plus the Senators adding significant players.
The Pacific Division race has heated up with the Golden Knights (Ivan Barbashev, Teddy Blueger, Quick), Kings (Vladislav Gavrikov, Joonas Korpisalo) and Edmonton Oilers (Mattias Ekholm, Nick Bjugstad) all buying big.
Each contending team in the Central Division has made at least one significant trade; Lars Eller to the Colorado Avalanche, Nino Niederreiter to the Winnipeg Jets, Marcus Johansson and Gustav Nyquist to the Minnesota Wild, Evgenii Dadonov and Max Domi to the Dallas Stars.
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We've reached Deadline Day wondering what else we're going to say, because even though the market has been active, it is not dried up. There are still plenty of players expected to be traded, teams that need to add more to contend for the Cup or sell because they won't.
Friday could, or maybe better yet should, be the day that the Anaheim Ducks trade John Klingberg and Dmitry Kulikov. The defensemen, each pending unrestricted free agents, were held out against the Washington Capitals on Wednesday for trade related reasons.
But could Ducks goalie John Gibson also be in play before the deadline? That is one to watch.
There's been rumors swirling around the Canucks and wondering if they might trade either forward J.T. Miller or Brock Boeser.
It's hard to figure out the Miller angle since he signed a seven-year, $56 million contract before the season. But Boeser said this week that it's hard to block out the rumors "knowing it could be a real possibility."
Boeser has two seasons remaining on a three-year, $19.5 million contract.
James van Riemsdyk played for the Philadelphia Flyers on Wednesday, but the pending UFA forward could be traded Friday. The same for goalie James Reimer and forward Nick Bonino with the San Jose Sharks. Each are pending UFAs.
Montreal Canadiens defenseman Joel Edmundson has been in trade rumors. He has one season left on a contract that carries a $3.5 million salary cap charge.
The wild card race in the Eastern Conference could force the hand of the Islanders, Penguins, Buffalo Sabres, Florida Panthers and Senators.
The Calgary Flames have been quiet. Do they make some noise before the deadline to improve their chances of pushing into a playoff spot before the season is over? They're five points out of a playoff spot now.
What about the Oilers? Are they done yet? Maybe not.
It's been a busy deadline for more than a month, but Friday is the day it ends and there's still a flurry of activity that could happen.
Buckle up.