Pittsburgh Penguins trade tiers
Josh Yohe of The Athletic: Pittsburgh Penguins are looking to make some moves and they are sellers. They are looking to add young/future assets before the March 7th NHL Trade deadline. A current look at the Penguins trade tiers.
The ‘Untouchable’ division – Sidney Crosby, and Evgeni Malkin.
The ‘Please, if you wouldn’t mind, take this player’ division – Tristan Jarry, and Ryan Graves.
The ‘Good as gone’ division – Marcus Pettersson, and Rickard Rakell.
The ‘Sure, he’s available’ division – Alex Nedeljkovic, Anthony Beauvillier, Michael Bunting, Noel Acciari, Kevin Hayes, Matt Nieto, Matt Grzelcyk, Blake Lizotte, Valtteri Puustinen, Samuel Poulin, and Ryan Shea.
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The ‘We’d rather not, but everyone has a price’ division – Drew O’Connor, Jesse Puljujarvi, Cody Glass, and Jack St. Ivany.
The ‘Wildly unlikely’ division – Owen Pickering, Rutger McGroarty, and Joel Blomqvist.
The ‘Not until he says so’ division – Bryan Rust.
The ‘It’s really complicated, but we can talk’ division – Erik Karlsson and Kris Letang.
New York Rangers trade tiers
Peter Baugh of the Athletic: So the New York Rangers let other teams know that Chris Kreider and Jacob Trouba could be available, but where could everyone else stand?
Not going anywhere – Adam Fox and Alexis Lafreniere.
Young, long-term pieces – Will Cuylle, Filip Chytil, Braden Schneider, Adam Edstrom, Brett Berard, and Victor Mancini.
Young potential trade chips – K’Andre Miller, and Kaapo Kakko.
Contract prohibitive – Mika Zibanejad, Artemi Panarin, and Vincent Trocheck,
Possible, but unlikely in-season – Jacob Trouba, and Chris Kreider.
Potential shakeup moves – Reilly Smith, Ryan Lindgren, and Jimmy Vesey.
What if he doesn’t re-sign? – Igor Shesterkin.
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Doesn’t make much sense – Jonathan Quick, Jonny Brodzinski, Zac Jones, Sam Carrick, Chad Ruhwedel, and Matt Rempe.
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