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March 5, 2018
Get ready for all the NHL’s wheeling and dealing with THN’s Trade Deadline Issue! We break down the needs and availability for all 31 clubs, profile trade target Mike Green and pit Pacioretty vs. Kane in a swap showdown. Also in the issue: the secret to Vegas’ success and how Nathan MacKinnon has bounced back to become an MVP candidate.
TRADE DEADLINE REWIND
5 YEARS Winner NASHVILLE PREDATORS ACQUIRE > Filip Forsberg WASHINGTON CAPITALS ACQUIRE Martin Erat < Michael Latta < OF ALL THE cautionary tales about mortgaging the future in service of striking while the iron’s hot, few demonstrate the potential pitfalls more than the Forsberg-Erat swap. Come the trade deadline of the lockoutshortened 2012-13 season, the Capitals sat atop their division with a wide-open championship window. So, Washington GM George McPhee, looking to bring in a quality depth winger to supplement Alex Ovechkin and Nicklas Backstrom, swung a deal that lives in infamy. Erat, for all his usefulness in Nashville, was a bust as a Capital. He managed a goal and three points in nine games in the regular season but was relegated to fourth-line duty, and then-coach Adam Oates soured on him in the playoffs. The winger was scratched for the…
THN’S TRADE BAIT POWER RANKINGS
1. RYAN McDONAGH D, NYR CONTRACT: $4.7M AAV to 2019 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: TB, BOS, TOR 2. MAX PACIORETTY LW, MTL CONTRACT: $4.5M AAV to 2019 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: PIT, STL, NSH 3. MIKE GREEN D, DET CONTRACT: UFA 2018 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: WSH, TB, TOR 4. MIKE HOFFMAN LW, OTT CONTRACT: $5.19M AAV to 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: STL, BOS, PIT 5. EVANDER KANE LW, BUF CONTRACT: UFA 2018 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: STL, PIT, LA 6. RICK NASH LW, NYR CONTRACT: UFA 2018 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: BOS, DAL, PIT 7. ALEX GALCHENYUK LW, MTL CONTRACT: $4.9M AAV to 2020 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: ANA, NSH, STL 8. DERICK BRASSARD C, OTT CONTRACT: $5M AAV to 2019 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: WPG, PIT, TB 9. PATRICK MAROON LW, EDM CONTRACT: UFA 2018 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: DAL, BOS, STL 10. THOMAS VANEK LW, VAN CONTRACT: UFA 2018 POTENTIAL DESTINATIONS: LA, BOS, PIT…
PUCKS FLOCK BACK TO NETS
THE NHL SHEDS ITS skin every decade or so, for better or worse. The 1960s brought expansion; in the 1970s, Bobby Orr changed the way defensemen played the game; the 1980s yielded Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux and the biggest offensive explosion in league history; the late 1990s ushered in the clutch-and-grab Dead Puck Era; and the mid-2000s, after a year-long 2004-05 lockout, gave us the obstruction crackdown and an offensive rebirth. It was thus only a matter of time before the 2010s found their identity. It sure took a while, with years of handwringing over goalie equipment size and talk of widening the nets, but 2017-18 has finally given us a breakthrough. We’re seeing the biggest offensive numbers since ‘The New NHL’ arrived in 2005-06, once again buoyed by a change…
THE GREAT CRUSADE
DURING THE NHL’S All-Star Game weekend in Tampa, everybody involved has a little extra fluid to sweat out of their systems, if you know what we mean. It’s Media Day, and Vegas Golden Knights coach Gerard Gallant is sitting at the podium, patiently answering question after question, pausing every couple of minutes to wipe the rapidly forming beads of perspiration off his brow with his hand. After 25 minutes of talking about the league’s greatest feel-good story in years, Gallant welcomes the chance to step down and says, “Holy s---, was that hot! I’m leaking!” So we’ve clearly established the man who is all but assured to be named the best coach in the NHL this season wilts under the bright lights, even when they’re not that bright. That’s probably…
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