{"id":276825,"date":"2025-11-11T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276825\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T03:47:08","slug":"zegras-penguins-trade-plans-team-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/276825\/","title":{"rendered":"Zegras, Penguins Trade Plans, Team Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

Going into the 2025-26 campaign, one of the central questions surrounding the Philadelphia Flyers was the matter of whether 24-year-old Trevor Zegras<\/a>, once seen as one of the game\u2019s bright young star forwards, would be able to rediscover the level of play he\u2019d once achieved \u2013 and then lost \u2013 as a member of the Anaheim Ducks. The early returns for Zegras and Flyers have been exceptional. Zegras leads Philadelphia in scoring with 16 points in 15 games, and has looked exactly like the creative, dynamic playmaker he was at times as a Duck.<\/p>\n

As a result of Zegras\u2019 strong start to his time in Philadelphia, increased attention has been paid to the fact that the player is a pending restricted free agent with arbitration rights. Although he\u2019s looked great as a Flyer, Zegras is still a player with a track record of inconsistency, and he has struggled with injuries over the last two years. But even considering those factors, it appears the Flyers are looking to get Zegras locked into an extension that will keep him in Philadelphia moving forward. Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman said on the 32 Thoughts Podcast<\/a> said \u201cI think\u201d Zegras and the Flyers \u201care talking about an extension.\u201d While he didn\u2019t offer concrete details on what a Zegras extension could look like, it\u2019s fair to say his early form has greatly increased the chances he earns a raise from the $5.75MM AAV he\u2019s currently making.<\/p>\n

Other notes from around the NHL:<\/p>\n

The Pittsburgh Penguins were expected by most to be one of the NHL\u2019s weaker teams in 2025-26, but so far they\u2019ve flipped the script on those observers to start this season. First-year head coach Dan Muse has his Penguins sitting seventh place in the NHL standings with a 9-5-1 record. Their strong play threatens to alter the team\u2019s calculus when it comes to deciding whether to trade their key veteran contributors. The Athletic\u2019s Josh Yohe wrote today<\/a> that \u201cAs long as the Penguins keep playing like they have been, I don\u2019t see [Bryan Rust<\/a>, Erik Karlsson<\/a>, or Rickard Rakell<\/a>] being traded.\u201d That\u2019s a big deal for the Penguins, who regardless of their struggles in past years, are likely to want to give the core of Sidney Crosby<\/a>, Evgeni Malkin<\/a>, and Kris Letang<\/a> the chance to make one last run for a Stanley Cup in Pittsburgh.
\nAs Hockey Canada continues to plan for the upcoming 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy, they\u2019re reportedly relying on past leaders to guide their current management group. The Athletic\u2019s Pierre LeBrun reported today<\/a> that Team Canada GM Doug Armstrong has cut their long list of considered players to a set of 35\u201340 names. In addition, LeBrun noted that Canada\u2019s management invited Detroit Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman, who built Canada\u2019s gold-winning teams for 2010 Vancouver and 2014 Sochi, to speak to the current management team to offer his guidance. If Canada can manage to build a team anything like the ones they brought to Sochi and Vancouver, they\u2019ll be an incredibly difficult team to beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going into the 2025-26 campaign, one of the central questions surrounding the Philadelphia Flyers was the matter of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,22599,575,10018,3065,4785,85,26830,120680],"class_list":{"0":"post-276825","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-hockey-canada","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-olympics","13":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","14":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-team-canada","17":"tag-trevor-zegras"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}