{"id":472455,"date":"2026-02-16T19:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472455\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T19:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:11:12","slug":"ditd-open-post-2-16-26-watch-your-feet-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/472455\/","title":{"rendered":"DitD &#038; Open Post &#8211; 2\/16\/26: Watch Your Feet Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Here are your links for today:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAccording to a trusted NHL source, the New Jersey Devils are looking to make an impact \u2018hockey trade\u2019 that will shake up their roster and \u2018send a message\u2019 to their dressing room coming out of the NHL Olympic Roster freeze.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/rg.org\/en-ca\/news\/hockey\/source-devils-looking-to-make-hockey-trade-to-shake-up-dressing-room\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RG<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Could Dawson Mercer be on the move? \u201cThe problem here is, how much do you trust Fitzgerald to trade Mercer for Kyrou or someone of that ilk? That\u2019s what makes a hockey trade a bit frightening. If Fitzgerald trades Mercer for a 30-something grinder, well, that\u2019s a bit of a problem.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/devilsontherush.substack.com\/p\/report-devils-looking-hockey-trade-shake-up-roster\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Devils on the Rush<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cWe\u2019re over a season and a half through (Sheldon Keefe\u2019s) tenure with the Devils now, though, and the results simply haven\u2019t been there. Yes, Jack Hughes has transformed into a legitimate two-way star. Yes, the Devils\u2019 defensive numbers are slightly improved from what they were under Lindy Ruff. However, just about everything else has trended downwards significantly.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/infernalaccess.substack.com\/p\/the-new-jersey-devils-have-a-coaching\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Infernal Access<\/a> ($)]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cLos Angeles Kings star Kevin Fiala\u2019s leg injury suffered in Switzerland\u2019s loss to Canada is likely season-ending, an NHL source told ESPN on Saturday. Fiala, 29, was ruled out of the rest of the Milan Cortina Olympic tournament after being stretchered off the ice with what the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation called a lower leg injury. The Swiss said Fiala had surgery on his leg after being hospitalized.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/hockey\/story\/_\/id\/47928384\/source-fiala-season-likely-olympic-injury\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cMeet the Spidercam. Slafkovsk\u00fd and Connor McDavid might be the two most dominant players in the Olympic men\u2019s hockey tournament so far, but the Spidercam has been the real star of the show. Suspended over the ice by four retractable wires, the mobile camera is always looming \u2014 crossing, dipping, diving, twisting above the players\u2019 heads. And it\u2019s giving fans a new vantage of the fastest game on Earth.\u201d [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7046567\/2026\/02\/15\/winter-olympics-hockey-2026-spidercam\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Athletic<\/a> ($)]<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Feel free to discuss these and any other hockey-related stories in the comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here are your links for today: \u201cAccording to a trusted NHL source, the New Jersey Devils are looking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[53344,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-472455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-devils-in-the-details","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472455","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=472455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}