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Yesterday’s News
- Hurricanes shutout Panthers to take Central Division and NHL lead
- Hurricanes trade deadline options: the search for a defenseman
Reading Assignments
- This checks out:
You love to see it pic.twitter.com/4QWzvEMShi
— Carolina Hurricanes (@Canes) April 9, 2021
- We’re still a few days before the NHL Trade Deadline but a couple teams have gotten started on the deal-making:
Full trade:
— Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) April 8, 2021
Brett Connolly, Riley Stillman and Henrik Borgstrom plus a 7th Rd pick in exchange for Lucas Carlsson and Lucas Wallmark.
Connolly has 2 more yrs at $3.5M AAV. Florida freeing up cap space as part of this. Hawks using their cap space to net 2 young players
#Isles acquire Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac from #NJDevils for prospects A.J. Green and Mason Jobst, 2021 first-round pick, conditional 2022 fourth. Devils retain half of each player's salary. Blockbuster trade between division rivals.
— Stephen Whyno (@SWhyno) April 7, 2021
- Sebastian Aho joined the Men in Blazers On Ice gang to talk about his rise to fame in the NHL. [NHL]
- Three Hurricanes prospects that have had disappointing seasons. [THW]
- NHL power rankings: Buyers or Sellers edition. [Sportsnet]
- Washington Capitals goalie Henrik Lundqvist (That’s still weird to say!) is still hoping to return to the NHL after having open-heart surgery back in January. [NBC]
- The COVID-19 outbreak within the Vancouver Canucks’ organization can be traced back to a variant. [NYT]
- The NHL hopes that the Canucks can return to play by the end of next week. [ESPN]
- Many things have been different between the U.S. and Canada in regards to COVID-19 putting the NHL in a tough spot. The league now finds themselves grappling with vaccine inequity between the two countries. [FOX]
- Inside how the NHL trade deadline is shaping up as deals begin to go down. [The Athletic $]