Some trades have already happened, but the Boston Bruins are still in trade talks as free agency approaches on July 1.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Edmonton Oilers defenseman Darnell Nurse<\/a> has requested a trade this summer, as reported by Elliotte Friedman and Mark Spector<\/a>. On Saturday, during the sixth round of the draft, Friedman chimed in with an update, saying Nurse has given the Oilers a list of three teams.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cNurse has submitted a list of three teams to Edmonton that he\u2019s interested in playing for,\u201d Friedman said Saturday on the NHL Network. \u201cWe believe those teams are Pittsburgh<\/a>, Philadelphia<\/a>, and Boston, though there\u2019s no confirmation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cHowever, the Oilers have kind of wanted to see if that might open itself up at all. The Ducks have been reported today as a team that might be interested. That might be a really good fit for him.\u201d<\/p>\n Due to Nurse\u2019s no-movement clause, he controls where he is traded. The Bruins reportedly being on the list naturally throws them into the conversation, but whether they should pursue him is another story.<\/p>\n To start, Nurse does not address the Bruins\u2019 most pressing needs.\u00a0<\/p>\n While they could benefit from a left-shot defenseman, specifically one to play top-pair minutes with Charlie McAvoy<\/a>, Nurse locks in the left side until his contract expires in 2030. He will be 35. Also expiring in that summer: Hampus Lindholm<\/a> (36) and Nikita Zadorov<\/a> (35).\u00a0<\/p>\n The need is on the right side, and Don Sweeney<\/a> knows it\u2019s a place they have to attack. He did not commit to naming it his biggest priority as July 1 approaches, as \u201cimproving your team\u201d tops the list.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the focal point that we have to continue to get better. Again, whether that\u2019s internal growth, we\u2019ve had guys, Mason [Lohrei]<\/a> did a good job playing over on the right side,\u201d Sweeney said. \u201cWe could leave as is, but that\u2019s not how we\u2019re wired and how we\u2019re built. We\u2019re going to try and continue to push and improve in all areas of our game, and explore every opportunity that presents.\u201d<\/p>\n Nurse, while having established himself as a top-four defenseman in Edmonton, has not lived up to the $9.25 million cap hit he carries. This past season, he posted 24 points (7-17\u201324) with a minus-12 rating, down from 33 (5-28\u201333) and a plus-11 the season before.\u00a0<\/p>\n Making the money work would also be difficult unless salary goes the other way or the Oilers retain. After the Peterka trade<\/a> on Friday, the Bruins have $7,715,417<\/a> in remaining cap space for the upcoming 2026-27 season. Don Sweeney, while obviously not naming names, did not shy away from moving cap space. However, like he said before the draft, all options are open.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to be specific to any particular player. I referenced that we have to look either through trade or what the marketplace will represent on defense to probably add to that group,\u201d Sweeney said Saturday. \u201cI\u2019ve always acknowledged that I\u2019ve been in continued discussions with both [Arvidsson] and Andrew [Peeke]. They are options. We have to explore all of it. In the next couple of days, we\u2019ll be making phone calls accordingly from the standpoint of trades and whether anybody else is going to change things.\u201d<\/p>\n More reports on Nurse take you all over the place. The Anaheim Ducks are emerging as another possibility, though not on Nurse\u2019s trade list. On Saturday, Frank Seravalli<\/a> reported the trade list has not changed, but the Oilers are struggling because the Bruins have \u201cother lines in the water.\u201d The same day, David Pagnotta reported the two realistic landing spots as Philadelphia and Anaheim, and said they are \u201cbattling this one out.<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n FOLLOW @JACKSTUDLEY13 ON \ud835\udd4f<\/a>\u00a0 | FOLLOW @BOSHockeyNow ON \ud835\udd4f<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some trades have already happened, but the Boston Bruins are still in trade talks as free agency approaches…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[740,49,48,29972,273038,23752,453,30439,448,250226],"class_list":["post-768328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-boston-bruins","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-darnell-nurse","tag-don-sweeney","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-oilers","tag-elliotte-friedman","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-offseason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768328","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=768328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}