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<\/a>The Nashville Predators<\/a> have turned things around after another horrible start to the season; they’re only one point out of a Wild Card spot heading into Saturday’s play. But GM Barry Trotz is aware that his team isn’t quite a serious contender, and is still considering his options.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One of his biggest trade chips, under the right circumstances, is Steven Stamkos. Like the team itself, Stamkos has had a huge resurgence over the past couple of months. 17 goals and 28 points in his last 25 games has him back over the 20-goal mark for the 16th time in his 18 NHL seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
And while the two-time Stanley Cup winner does hold a full no-move clause, “The sense is he\u2019d be open to waiving that for another look at the playoffs,” writes Nick Kypreos of Sportsnet<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Insider Jeff Marek revealed on The Sheet<\/a> this weekend that an up-and-coming NHL executive has proposed to him the following trade that would send Stamkos to the New Jersey Devils<\/a> \u2014 a team desperate for a big offensive boost.\u00a0<\/p>\n This comes from someone whose career trajectory is on the way to him becoming a general manager in the NHL. Here’s the deal that he would propose:<\/p>\n Dougie Hamilton, Cody Glass, and Seamus Casey\u00a0to the Nashville Predators in exchange for Steven Stamkos and Justin Barron, and Nashville retains half on Barron, which gets New Jersey cap compliant.\u00a0<\/p>\n Let’s break it down, with cap hits:<\/p>\n To Nashville:<\/p>\n Hamilton ($9M, two more years to run after this season)\u00a0Glass ($2.5M, one more year)Casey ($950K, ELC, one more year)<\/p>\n To New Jersey:<\/p>\n Stamkos ($8M, two more years)Barron ($1.5M, RFA)<\/p>\n Essentially, what it comes down to for the Preds in exchange for Stamkos, is a top-four defenseman, albeit an expensive one having a down year, and a top young prospect on the blueline in Casey. There’s no telling what a change in scenery like this would do for Hamilton.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nashville\u00a0has already used two of its three salary retention slots and has no intention of doing so, at all, if they do trade Stamkos.\u00a0<\/p>\n Stamkos would be the offensive boost the Devils desperately need<\/p>\n For the Devils, they get the top-six goal-scoring upgrade they need. The former Lightning legend,\u00a0as Marek notes, would likely find himself on the finishing end of a terrific one-two punch with elite playmaker Jack Hughes. Stamkos\u00a0would also be reunited with\u00a0Ond\u0159ej Pal\u00e1t, with whom he won two Cups in Tampa.<\/p>\n Although New Jersey doesn’t get the massive cap relief they were ideally looking for by ridding themselves of the Hamilton cap hit, they do get an all-time great goal-scorer desperate for another crack at the Cup.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Devils have been one of the prime suitors for Stamkos ever since his name started to swirl on the rumor mill early this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n In the end, Stamkos has to agree to this, and Hamilton has a 10-team trade list, so he, too, has to agree, if Nashville isn’t on his list.\u00a0<\/p>\n Photo: \u00a9 Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 The Nashville Predators have turned things around after another horrible start to the season; they’re only one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":414155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[77325,385,61536,21071,22358,77324,57292,77323,77322,22151,77321,99],"class_list":["post-414154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-hockey-news","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft","tag-nhl-free-agency","tag-nhl-news","tag-nhl-playoffs","tag-nhl-rumors","tag-nhl-teams","tag-nhl-trade-deadline","tag-nhl-trade-rumors","tag-nhl-trades","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414154","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=414154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}