{"id":453962,"date":"2026-02-04T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/453962\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:58:10","slug":"panarin-liljegren-ekman-larsson-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/453962\/","title":{"rendered":"Panarin, Liljegren, Ekman-Larsson \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s no question that the New York Rangers are looking to move pending unrestricted free agent Artemi Panarin<\/a> before today\u2019s 3 p.m. CT Olympic roster freeze. A handful of teams have already been prominently linked to Panarin, and a recent update from David Pagnotta alerted<\/a> that the situation remains incredibly fluid, lowering the chances of a trade coming together by this afternoon.<\/p>\n

In his update, Pagnotta suggested that the Carolina Hurricanes, Florida Panthers, Los Angeles Kings, and San Jose Sharks remain interested in acquiring Panarin with an extension. In contrast, the Colorado Avalanche, Dallas Stars, and Edmonton Oilers view him only as a rental. Additionally, Pagnotta mentioned that unless something changes relatively soon, the Anaheim Ducks, Detroit Red Wings, Utah Mammoth, and Washington Capitals are no longer in the running.<\/p>\n

On yesterday\u2019s edition of Insider Trading<\/a>, TSN\u2019s Chris Johnston reported that at least one team has put $40MM on the table for Panarin, which would presumably translate to a three-year deal with an AAV of $13.3MM or a four-year contract with an AAV of $10MM.<\/p>\n

Other updates from this morning:<\/p>\n

In the same update from Pagnotta, he suggests that the Sharks are actively shopping Timothy Liljegren<\/a>, as well as other pending-UFA defensemen, on the trade market. San Jose could ultimately sign a few of them to extensions over the next few weeks, though Pagnotta confirmed that Liljegren is not a part of the organization\u2019s long-term plans. The former 17th overall pick in the 2017 NHL Draft has 10 assists in 41 games this season, averaging 20:15 of ice time per contest.
\nLastly, Pagnotta reported that if the Toronto Maple Leafs pivot toward selling ahead of the March 6th trade deadline, plenty of teams will be interested in acquiring Oliver Ekman-Larsson<\/a>. It won\u2019t be without hurdles, as the 34-year-old defenseman is signed through the 2027-28 season at a $3.5MM salary with a 16-team no-trade clause. Still, he\u2019s having an excellent offensive year with Toronto, scoring eight goals and 34 points in 56 games, with most of that production coming at even strength.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s no question that the New York Rangers are looking to move pending unrestricted free agent Artemi Panarin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[766,8742,49,48,748,758,757,742,453,747,763,751,141055,764,82,118936,746,765,754],"class_list":{"0":"post-453962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-anaheim-ducks","9":"tag-artemi-panarin","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-carolina-hurricanes","13":"tag-colorado-avalanche","14":"tag-dallas-stars","15":"tag-detroit-red-wings","16":"tag-edmonton-oilers","17":"tag-florida-panthers","18":"tag-los-angeles-kings","19":"tag-new-york-rangers","20":"tag-oliver-ekman-larsson","21":"tag-san-jose-sharks","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-timothy-liljegren","24":"tag-toronto-maple-leafs","25":"tag-utah-mammoth","26":"tag-washington-capitals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453962","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=453962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}