{"id":128220,"date":"2025-09-08T06:47:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128220\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T06:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:47:18","slug":"failed-trade-between-canadiens-and-predators-leaks-publicly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/128220\/","title":{"rendered":"Failed Trade Between Canadiens and Predators Leaks Publicly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Failed Trade Between Canadiens and Predators Leaks Publicly<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/594027.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Canadiens and Predators\" title=\"Canadiens and Predators\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Fubo<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators were reportedly close to making a deal with one another at the Trade Deadline for an unnamed player, as shown in the 2nd episode of the new season of The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the Predators suffered through an embarrassing year that resulted in them missing the playoffs and being left to face multiple unsolved questions as to why things went so wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation Swirls Over Which Predator Montreal Targeted<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t made specifically clear which Predators player that general managers Barry Trotz and Kent Hughes discussed, but it&#8217;s possible that it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/nhl\/trades\/canadiens-confirm-a-second-trade-was-discussed-and-negotiated-with-nashville\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">could have been any one<\/a> of the aforementioned names that were sent away from Nashville.<\/p>\n<p>During the 2nd episode of the new season of The Rebuild: Inside the Montreal Canadiens, a discussion between Trotz and Hughes is shown, but the specific player they discussed wasn&#8217;t revealed.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens returned to the playoffs for the 1st time since their miracle run to the 2021 SCF against the Tampa Bay Lightning, and after their acquisition and signing of defenseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Noah-Dobson-51667\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Noah Dobson profile and hockey stats\">Noah Dobson<\/a>, appear poised to once again be a playoff team.<\/p>\n<p>The Predators are still trying to figure out what went wrong last year and work to avoid suffering the same fate. If things go badly again for the Predators this year, there could be some monumental changes.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, the Canadiens and Predators are a pair of teams headed in very different directions.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on HouseOfHockey<\/p>\n<p>POLL<\/p>\n<p>4 HOURS AGO\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0\u00a044 ANSWERS<\/p>\n<p>Failed Trade Between Canadiens and Predators Leaks Publicly<\/p>\n<p>Can the Predators return to the playoffs in 2026?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/nhl-team\/pittsburgh-penguins\/Javascript:void(save_clic(\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1700.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" border=\"0\" alt=\"SuperHockeyPool25-26 Ang\" title=\"SuperHockeyPool25-26 Ang\" loading=\"lazy\" defer=\"defer\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHOUSEOFHOCKEY.NET<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.houseofhockey.net\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Failed Trade Between Canadiens and Predators Leaks Publicly Photo credit: Fubo The Montreal Canadiens and Nashville Predators were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[70329,49,48,8467,70330,70328,760,448,19120,82],"class_list":["post-128220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-barry-trotz","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-kent-hughes","tag-luke-schenn-speculation","tag-montreal-canadiens-trade-rumors","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}