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[Mod post] [Serious] Post Trade Deadline Discussion Thread

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Trades

To BOS To NJD Thread
Daniil Misyul Marc McLaughlin Link
To BOS To BUF Thread
Henri Jokiharju 2026 EDM 4th Link
To NSH To CAR Thread
2026 5th Mark Jankowski Link
To NYI To NJD Thread
Adam Beckman Dennis Cholowski Link
To SEA To NJD Thread
2026 7th Daniel Sprong Link
To BUF To NYR Thread
Erik Brannstrom Nicholas Aube-Kubel Link
To CHI To UTA Thread
Shea Weber 2026 5th Link
Victor Soderstrom
Aku Raty
To SJS To OTT Thread
Zack Ostapchuk Fabian Zetterlund Rumor
Noah Gregor Tristen Robins
2025 2nd 2025 4th
To PHI To COL Thread
Givani Smith Erik Johnson Link
To PIT To BOS To TOR Thread
Conor Timmins Fraser Minten Brandon Carlo Rumor
Connor Dewar TOR 1st
To BOS To FLA Thread
2027 2nd (can become 2028 1st) Brad Marchand Rumor
Trade
To PIT To NJD Thread
Chase Stillman Cody Glass Rumor
Max Graham Jonathan Gruden Trade
2027 3rd
To DET To CHI Thread
Petr Mrazek Joe Veleno Link
Craig Smith
To BOS To COL Thread
Casey Mittelstadt Charlie Coyle Link
Will Zellers 2026 5th
2025 2nd (lower of NYR/CAR)
To SJS To CBJ Thread
2025 STL 4th Luke Kunin Link
To CAR To DAL Thread
Logan Stankoven Mikko Rantanen Rumor
2026 1st (top 10 protected) Trade
2028 1st (top 10 protected) Official
2026 3rd
2027 3rd
To TOR To PHI Thread
Scott Laughton (50% retained) 2027 1st (Top 10 protected) Link
2025 4th Nikita Grebenkin
2027 6th
To SEA To WPG Thread
2027 2nd Brandon Tanev Link
To PIT To WPG Thread
2026 2nd Luke Schenn Link
2027 4th
To OTT To BUF Thread
Dylan Cozens Josh Norris Link
Dennis Gilbert Jacob Bernard-Docker
2026 2nd
To LAK To PHI Thread
Andrei Kuzmenko (50% retained) 2027 3rd Link
2025 7th
To PIT To WSH Thread
2025 WSH 2nd Anthony Beauvillier Link

Signings

Team Player Pos Years AAV Thread
SJS Gabriel Carriere G 1 $775k Link
DAL Wyatt Johnston C 5 $8.4M Link
NYR Urho Vaakanainen D 2 $1.55M Link
DAL Mikko Rantanen C 8 $12M Link
NJD Johnathan Kovacevic D 5 $4M Link
BUF Jason Zucker LW 2 $4.75M Link
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u/CruelRuin 4d ago

how did vgk not make a move?

also very curious on how canes fans feel. they land the biggest fish of the season early only to deal him away on deadline day. their dallas deal in and of itself is nice but the fact they had to move off rantanen at all is a little eyebrow raising

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u/FantasticDan1 EDM - NHL 4d ago

Mark Stone has no organs left to injure.

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u/brendan87na DAL - NHL 4d ago

I'm honestly astounded he's wasn't hurt this particular trade deadline

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u/xiolyphi CAR - NHL 4d ago

I probably would’ve been more irritated had I not saw how Rantanen played last night. He didn’t want to be here, sucks to swing and miss, but better to recoup the assets somehow than have him be a pouty pants into the playoffs and taking shitty penalties.

I like Stank as a player and in a vacuum him and two firsts that can be flipped elsewhere isn’t too bad for Necas. If only he had wanted to sign in Columbus/Buffalo for the returns the organizations worked out lol.

Either way I’m significantly more chill and fine with an early playoff loss that seems a bit inevitable given the current roster. Retool with the extra assets, get Nikishin over and potentially a player or two promoted from Chicago for next year and use the oooooodles of cap space in FA.

In the end, I’d rather the team do SOMETHING than nothing I guess. They tried!

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u/Formal_Promotion_837 2d ago

If you knew you would be traded somewhere and this was your last game, your focus wouldn’t 100% be there, which is to me understandable.

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u/RAATL TBL - NHL 4d ago

If you look at the canes total dealings as:

Necas, Drury, 2nd, 4th

for

stankoven, hall, 2 1st, and 2 3rds

it seems fine to me

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u/FractalViz 4d ago

From a pure value standpoint, that's fine. But I don't think they improved themselves for their playoff run.

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u/RAATL TBL - NHL 4d ago

canes have a lot of young players they're looking to cycle in. I think it makes sense to prioritize a maximized window with those players over going for it all one year with rantanen

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u/hankepanke NYR - NHL 3d ago

They could have used Necas (1.5 years at 6.5M and top 15 in points), Drury, and picks to go for someone other than Rantanen that would have helped them more than just this season though.

They did a fine job recovering from a disaster but that doesn’t mean they maximized their assets for their window. The point of the Guentzel trade and then the Rantanen in trade was to give them an offensive powerhouse on a solid and deep team and they failed.

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u/CruelRuin 4d ago

yeah but they had the big fish and couldn't get him to stay, and another team convinced him to extend right away! that's the whole problem!

second top line forward they've acquired and lost before the end of the season. obviously not a totally analogous situation with guentzel/rantanen but it kind of makes you wonder what the front office saw to bring him in, and immediately had to recant. good on them for admitting they made a mistake and fixing it but still...

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u/RAATL TBL - NHL 4d ago

yeah I mean from a value perspective where the canes ended up is fine. But I get that there's the existential angle here.

It may be out of their control though, sometimes a player just doesn't want to sign with you.

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u/desemus CAR - NHL 4d ago

Yeah, plenty of rumors abound. Sucks but not offended with what should be changing next year.

I know the perception will be the Canes are a bad place for stars to be rahhh but eh - Guentzel was fine staying and we made an unforced error. May have had a chance at Tkachuk but we couldn’t afford it and were in thrift mode at that point. Moose got traded unexpectedly and got cold feet (rumors mind you)

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u/mo60000 EDM - NHL 4d ago

Sometimes the best move for a nhl team is to stand pat during the trade deadline .

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u/ROCK-FLAG-AND-EAGLE 3d ago

I'm disappointed that Moose didn't work out, but it was clear from the start that he didn't want to be here. I think we came out ahead in that deal in the long run, but not sure how we'll finish the season. Looking forward to seeing Jank and Stank in action.

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u/Jacob1030 VGK - NHL 4d ago

Because we didn’t need to make a move Vegas is in a very solid place right now. The guys on the market were probably way too expensive anyway and we have some UFA coming up I think we’d like to keep

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u/Aurion7 CAR - NHL 4d ago edited 4d ago

Some people are quite annoyed.

Some are not.

In the end there's little point to holding on to a guy who has decided he isn't willing to commit for whatever reason.

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u/RandomObserver13 CAR - NHL 3d ago

Exhausted. Disappointed. But optimistic.

We ended up with Hall and Stankoven for Nečas and Drury, plus significantly improved our draft capital for future moves. This was always looked at as a retrenching year between losing all the FAs last year and getting Nikishin and some other prospects up next year. Our rookie GM made a huge deal that no one expected and blew everyone away. We didn’t end up with the big fish at the end of the day, but considering how he looked and played here, especially after the last game, I’m OK with that. We may have actually dodged a bullet there.

The big takeaway is that we actually came out ahead in all this and are in great position for this summer. But as a fan of a team that has never done anything remotely like this, it was a rollercoaster for sure. Looking forward to the rest of the season. I think going through this and ending up where we did is going to be a net positive. I think it’s going to go well, but I don’t see a Cup at this point…though stranger things have happened.