Here’s a rundown of the original content on PHR over the past seven days.
While the Ducks would like to lock up winger Jakob Silfverberg, a little-known CBA element could make that a challenge. Zach broke down what the rule is and went over how it’s going to present a significant challenge for GM Bob Murray to overcome.
With the trade deadline quickly approaching, we’ve kicked off our annual Deadline Primer series. The Central Division is where we’ve started this season. I took a look at the situations in Winnipeg and Dallas, Zach did the same for Nashville and Minnesota, and Holger previewed Colorado.
With the All-Star Game marking the unofficial midway point of the season, we began our look at the upcoming free agent market with the players ranked 11 through 20. Brock Nelson and Jake Gardiner narrowly missed out on a spot in the top ten.
Gavin held his weekly live chat on Thursday. Topics included the Wayne Simmonds situation in Philadelphia, Jason Zucker’s down season with Minnesota, who Winnipeg might try to target in the weeks to come, what Edmonton should do next, and much more.
Defensemen are in high demand with Carolina attracting plenty of attention. With that in mind, we asked which Hurricanes blueliner is the most likely to be on the move. Kings rearguard Jake Muzzin is also in high demand but the asking price reportedly involves a first-round pick and a quality prospect. Will that scare teams off from acquiring him or will he be on the move? Make your prediction here.
We had plenty of questions for the mailbag in our last call for submissions that I ran another mailbag on Saturday to cover the ones that weren’t addressed last weekend. Not surprisingly, the trade deadline dominated the queries this time around.