{"id":502304,"date":"2026-03-04T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502304\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:58:11","slug":"predators-trade-michael-mccarron-to-wild-for-2nd-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/502304\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators trade Michael McCarron to Wild for 2nd-round pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Minnesota Wild<\/a> on Tuesday acquired veteran center Michael McCarron<\/a> from the Nashville Predators<\/a> for a 2028 second-round draft pick.<\/p>\n

The deal could mark the first domino to fall for centers ahead of Friday’s NHL trade deadline. Several teams were interested in acquiring McCarron, the 30-year-old who was having a career year in terms of ice time (14:30) for Nashville this season.<\/p>\n

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The Wild like McCarron’s size (6-foot-6) and competitive nature and hope to use him on their penalty kill. McCarron is also strong in the faceoff circle, with a career percentage of 52.8.<\/p>\n

Wild general manager Bill Guerin was the GM for the gold medal-winning U.S. team at the 2026 Winter Olympics. McCarron, a Michigan native, has played for USA Hockey, including at the 2025 World Championships, for which Guerin was also the GM.<\/p>\n

The Wild are on a collision course to face their Central Division rivals, the Dallas Stars<\/a>, in the first round of the playoffs. Minnesota hasn’t made it past the first round since 2015.<\/p>\n

Guerin, meanwhile, has been loading up to help his team break through, including a bold trade for star defenseman Quinn Hughes<\/a> in December.<\/p>\n

And sources told ESPN that even with the McCarron acquisition, the Wild are still in the mix to acquire Vincent Trocheck<\/a> from the New York Rangers<\/a>. The Wild put in a trade offer to the Rangers for Trocheck, sources said, but New York general manager Chris Drury is weighing all options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minnesota Wild on Tuesday acquired veteran center Michael McCarron from the Nashville Predators for a 2028 second-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-502304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502304","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=502304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}