Two sentences on every trade made in the 48 hours before NHL’s deadline
The Hockey Central panel recaps the biggest trade on Deadline Day, the Taylor Hall trade from Buffalo to Boston, delving deep into why this move could wipe out anything that has happened to Hall so far this season. | April 13, 2021, 12:34 PM
April 13, 2021, 12:34 PM
With the trade deadline officially in our wake, let’s take a quick look back at what happened before powering on towards the post-season. As you’d expect with the flat salary cap in a weird pandemic-tinged year, it was a relatively inactive deadline compared to most years.
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Almost certainly, Auston Matthews will be a finalist for the Hart Trophy, as the NHL’s most valuable player.
Barring some kind of drastic change with Connor McDavid, Matthews won’t win the award but is likely to end up in the top three, which will put him in a place few Maple Leafs of the modern era have ever known.
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Doug Gilmour finished second to Mario Lemieux for the Hart in 1993, then a year later placed fourth behind winner, Sergei Fedorov. Darryl Sittler finished third once in Hart voting. Guy Lafleur won the award that year, in 1978. Mats Sundin never finished higher than eighth on the Hart ballot and Wendel Clark never did receive a Hart vote.
Quick Shifts: 4 buyers set up to make a trade deadline splash
In the first edition of Trade Deadline Matchmaker, Mike Futa and Kris Versteeg each pick a player they believe would be the ‘perfect match’ for all four ‘buyers’ in the Canadian North division ahead of the trade deadline. | April 10, 2021, 8:22 AM
April 10, 2021, 8:22 AM
A quick mix of the things we gleaned from the week of hockey, serious and less so, and rolling four lines deep. We re under 60 hours till deadline. LTIR you ready?
1. “It’s all on the table for us at this point,” Kyle Dubas declared during a Maple Leafs TV broadcast last week.
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