Welcome to Trade Deadline day. The Leafs still have their first round pick after acquiring all 6'2" of Ilya Lyubushkin, 6'5" of Joel Edmundson, and 6'6" of prospect/project Cade Webber in the week leading up to today.
They still have assets and cap space to make a trade. But it could be an acquisition at forward now looking at the volume on defense. Follow along in the comments today as we see how the league shakes out.
A reminder on the rules of Trade Deadline and what can happen after.
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Here's the story on Joel Edmundson. I am simply not a fan, but it's not like I had any say in the matter.
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The Leafs also traded for an unsigned draft pick from Carolina named Cade Webber. He's playing at Boston College and he's 6'6" as a defender. Someone for the Marlies to look at next season.
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The Leafs lost to the Bruins again. They don't have an answer to their most-likely playoff opponent.
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There have been a lot of non-playoffs focused trades lately, like for example Buffalo swapping Mittelstadt for Byram with Colorado. And most of the trades have been in the West. Among the East playoff teams, here's a rundown of the trades so far:
The Lightning got Anthony Duclair from San Jose for a third round pick and a guy.
The Rangers got Alex Wennberg from Seattle for a second and a fourth.
The Panthers got Vladimir Tarasenko for a third and a fourth.
The Leafs got Edmundson and Lyubushkin for a two thirds, a fifth, and a sixth.
I'm sure a lot of things will have changed by EOD tomorrow.
In other news, Lagesson is currently on waivers to make the roster numbers work out. He's not likely to get claimed.
The Penguins might trade Jake Guentzel for Michael Bunting and a haul.
UPDATE: It happened!
Full trade:
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) March 8, 2024
Pittsburgh trades Jake Guentzel (25% retained) and Ty Smith to Carolina in exchange for Michael Bunting, Ville Koivunen, Vasili Ponomarev, Cruz Lucius, Carolina’s 1st RD pick in 2024 (Conditional) and Carolina’s 5th RD pick in 2024 (Conditional).
Matthew Knies should be fine after leaving the game against Boston early.
Things can change but early word on Matthew Knies is that his injury is not serious and he's being kept out as a precaution. We'll see.
— Joshua Kloke (@joshuakloke) March 8, 2024
And some astonishing icetime data out of the PWHL. Renata is so Fast she creates relativistic time dilation so 25 minutes for her is almost 40 minutes for us.
.@PWHL_Toronto defender Renata Fast skated 39:20 in last night's win, setting a new league-high for ice time in a game. Jocelyne Larocque skated 39:15.
— Melissa Burgess (@_MelissaBurgess) March 7, 2024
The previous record was 36:46 (Marie-Philip Poulin). Previous record by a defender: 34:21 (Erin Ambrose). #PWHL
Happy Friday!
