{"id":518157,"date":"2026-03-04T13:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518157\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T13:07:11","slug":"who-needs-to-make-a-move-at-the-nhl-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/518157\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Needs to Make a Move at the NHL Trade Deadline?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Head coach Rick Bowness of the Columbus Blue Jackets stands behind the bench during a game against the Boston Bruins during the third period at the TD Garden on February 26, 2026 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Richard T Gagnon\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The NHL has only been back from its Winter Olympic break<\/a> \u2014 when transactions were on pause leaguewide<\/a> for nearly 20 days \u2014 for a week now, and Friday\u2019s trade deadline (at 3 p.m. ET) is approaching at full speed, even if things feel strangely quiet<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n

There are a handful of good reasons why we might be in store for less activity than in recent years, when high-impact deadline moves have ticked up<\/a> after a lull in the late 2010s and early 2020s. Among them, new CBA constraints<\/a> have fundamentally changed how teams navigate fitting salary under the cap, while the best players on offer are not exactly huge names<\/a> \u2014 no offense intended to the likes Robert Thomas, Vincent Trocheck and Justin Faulk.<\/p>\n

Pushing against those factors, though, is the fact that somebody still does need to go out and win the Stanley Cup, you know?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Head coach Rick Bowness of the Columbus Blue Jackets stands behind the bench during a game against the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518158,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-518157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518157","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=518157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}