Daily Faceoff: Frank Seravalli as well as Mike McKenna on Daily Faceoff Live on Nashville Predators defenseman Mattias Ekholm being consisted of on the leading trade targets checklist in advance of the March third NHL trade target date.
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McKenna: “Frank, the countdowns on. We’re 2 months far from the NHLs trade target date as well as your brand-new trade targets board is going to be up atDailyFaceoff com. Who’s the brand-new heavyweight on the checklist?
Seravalli: “Yeah Mike, it’s actually fascinating. Mattias Ekholm signs up with the checklist today fromthe Nashville Predators I’m informed the Preds remain in a place where they’re going to have to make some actually challenging choices.
And this might stun some individuals due to the fact that Ekholm remains in the initial year of a four-year offer at $6.25 million. But you consider where the Preds go to in the standings as well as I discussed several of the challenging inquiries that they’re going to have to ask themselves with Ryan McDonagh additionally north of $6 million. Of training course Roman Josi on the backend.
A group that might require to head in a various instructions as well as start to restore a bit. Begin to tweeze some items off as well as enter a various means. Having 3 defensemen on your blue line that essentially balance $6.5 million or even more, is most likely quite troublesome moving on.
And so, I’m informed the Preds are discovering their choices on the backend. I believe Ryan McDonagh is most likely much less most likely to step considered that he forgoed his no-trade provision in order to cometo Nashville Probably obtained worked out as well as is not believing that he’s going to be relocating.
But Ekholm does not have any kind of no-trade security. So I believe that is essential to mention as component of this brand-new agreement that he has withthe Preds And Ekholm debuts on our currently trade targets board in 2023 inside the leading 10.
