{"id":338354,"date":"2025-12-09T05:15:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338354\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T05:15:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T05:15:08","slug":"predicting-the-most-active-teams-at-the-2026-nhl-trade-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/338354\/","title":{"rendered":"Predicting The Most Active Teams at the 2026 NHL Trade Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Since the 2018-19 season, the Carolina Hurricanes have not missed the postseason. They&#8217;ve finished first or second in their division since the 2020-21 season and reached the Eastern Conference Final three times, including twice in the\u00a0<a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/records.nhl.com\/car\/overview\/season-by-season-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">last three seasons<\/a>, but have yet to advance to the Stanley Cup Final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Next June will mark 20 years since the Hurricanes won their first and only Stanley Cup. Management will be shopping around in the trade market, hoping to land the right player who can help them bring the Cup back to Raleigh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Previous general manager Don Waddell and current GM Eric Tulsky have been willing to pursue notable talent in the trade market. Between them, they acquired Max Pacioretty, Brent Burns, Jake Guentzel, and Mikko Rantanen <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\/trades?page=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">since 2022<\/a>, but none of those players were able to end the Hurricanes&#8217; current Cup drought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Hurricanes are in &#8220;win-now&#8221; mode. They have a projected $39.5 million in <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/puckpedia.com\/team\/carolina-hurricanes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">trade deadline cap space<\/a> and tradeable assets, including two first-round picks in 2028. They&#8217;ve made big swings in the market before, so there&#8217;s little reason to believe they won&#8217;t do it again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Inconsistent goaltending remains an issue, but there are no surefire postseason starters currently in the trade market. Their pursuit of Guentzel in 2024 and Rantanen last season suggests they&#8217;ll go after another high-scoring forward to improve their <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/stats\/teams?reportType=season&amp;seasonFrom=20252026&amp;seasonTo=20252026&amp;gameType=2&amp;sort=powerPlayPct&amp;page=0&amp;pageSize=50\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">struggling power play<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the 2018-19 season, the Carolina Hurricanes have not missed the postseason. They&#8217;ve finished first or second in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-338354","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}