{"id":465246,"date":"2026-02-07T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465246\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:58:08","slug":"marchessault-mccarron-gm-search-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465246\/","title":{"rendered":"Marchessault, McCarron, GM Search \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n By Brian La Rose<\/a> |
\n at February 7, 2026 2:49 pm <\/p>\n

There is a willingness from both the Predators and winger Jonathan Marchessault<\/a> to see if something could happen on the trade front, reports Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman<\/a> in his latest 32 Thoughts column.\u00a0 The 35-year-old is in the second season of a five-year contract that carries a $5.5MM AAV.\u00a0 Marchessault has battled injuries this season and has been a little quiet when he has played, notching 10 goals and seven assists in 38 games.\u00a0 However, he was one of the few players who lived up to expectations last season when he collected 21 goals and 35 helpers to finish second on the team in scoring.<\/p>\n

While a $5.5MM cap charge for a top-six forward in an increasing cap environment is reasonable, there will be teams questioning just how long he\u2019ll be able to stay in that role which will largely dictate the viability or lack thereof of a swap.\u00a0 Marchessault has a full no-move clause which gives him control over where he could be moved to with Friedman noting that one particular priority for the winger is going somewhere with strong minor hockey infrastructure for his children.<\/p>\n

More from Nashville:<\/p>\n

On Friday, the league announced<\/a> that winger Michael McCarron<\/a> was fined just over $2.3K for a slash on Washington blueliner Trevor van Riemsdyk<\/a> on Thursday night. The amount is the maximum allowable under the CBA, amounting to the lower of $5K or one-half of one day\u2019s salary, in this case the latter.\u00a0 The fine money goes to the Players\u2019 Emergency Assistance Fund.
\nWhen GM Barry Trotz announced he\u2019d be retiring, the Predators appointed CAA Executive Search to assist in the search for his replacement. However, following concerns from the NHLPA about potential conflicts of interest (CAA Hockey also represents 153 active NHL players), CAA has withdrawn from the agreement with the team, reports Alex Silverman of the Sports Business Journal<\/a>.\u00a0 The NHLPA\u2019s rules governing agencies prohibit those agencies from representing NHL players and also assisting in executive searches, even if they\u2019re run by two completely distinct elements of that firm.\u00a0 Trotz remains in place as the GM for the time being and is expected to take the team through the trade deadline and beyond that until a replacement is found.\u00a0 Alex Daugherty of The Tennessean adds (Twitter link<\/a>) that the search will now be done in-house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Brian La Rose | at February 7, 2026 2:49 pm There is a willingness from both the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,138708,232123,7523,575,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-465246","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-jonathan-marchessault","11":"tag-michael-mccarron","12":"tag-nashville-predators","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465246","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=465246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}