2017 NHL trade deadline: Complete coverage of rumors, news and trade analysis

We’ve hit the sweet spot of the NHL season.

One month removed from the trade deadline. One month out from the Stanley Cup Playoffs. The eye of the hurricane, if hurricanes had eyes that were just as hectic as the rest of the storm. Bad analogy.

We ended the 2017 NHL trade deadline one trade below last year’s meager number of 19. It was another slow year during the final day itself, only ticking up during the final hour, and a little while after the last bell. Basically, it went as slow as everyone thought it would, even in a year facing an expansion draft.

Even so, the deadline as a whole had some pretty big moves and some surprising teams making — or not making — deals. We narrowed the last few months down to a handful of teams that stood out, for good or for bad reasons. May the odds be ever in your favor.

Well, the NHL trade deadline is gone. Behind us, like dust kicked up by tires driving madly towards the Stanley Cup Playoffs.

But before we completely turn our attention to the NHL’s stretch run, let’s take a look back and hand out some grades for the 2017 trade dudline. I mean deadline. It was enthralling.

The NHL trade deadline is almost upon us, and the trade winds are howling.

There are now three or four surefire sellers on the market. The Colorado Avalanche are likely moving on from Matt Duchene or Gabriel Landeskog if someone meets their high price. Jarome Iginla is all but certainly going elsewhere. The Arizona Coyotes might move Shane Doan. The Dallas Stars are already players.

The 2017 NHL trade deadline has passed. Rumor winds picked up over the weekend, culminating in two big trades.

And then not much happened after that. But we graded everything anyway! With a bunch of nonsense. Keep refreshing all day as we get caught up and trades roll in.

The 2017 NHL trade deadline is upon us! Last year we had a bit of fun playing bingo with you all, so we brought it back this year due to popular demand!

We’re not sure how this trade deadline is going to go down, honestly. There are still a few big names out there, but recent deadlines have been busts. This bingo card will keep you company, whether you’re playing at home, in school, or at work.

The 2017 NHL trade deadline has passed. And as we waited to see what kinds of trades came filtering in after the 3 p.m. ET deadline ... well, we’re still kind of waiting.

Thanks to factors like the looming expansion draft, a whole bunch of notable players didn’t get traded on Wednesday. You’re probably wondering why.

Update:

In a strange three-way trade, after the Flyers dealt Mark Streit to the Lightning, Tampa Bay has now moved Streit to Pittsburgh for a fourth round pick.

The Ottawa Senators moved on from a recent first-round pick on Wednesday, trading winger Curtis Lazar to the Calgary Flames.

Calgary sends defensemen Mike Kostka, Jyrki Jokipakka and a second-round pick to the Senators for Lazar.

Jarome Iginla, one of the greatest power wingers in NHL history, will get one last shot at winning a Stanley Cup.

The Colorado Avalanche granted the future Hall of Famer’s wishes on Wednesday, trading Iginla to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for a conditional fourth-round pick in the 2018 NHL Draft.

The goaltender market is apparently thinning down, as reports are coming in that Vancouver Canucks netminder Ryan Miller has been taken off the trade block.

Vancouver hasn’t been shy to sell veteran pieces at this deadline, but general manager Jim Benning has apparently drawn the line at his starter. Rumors were swirling that the Canucks wanted to trade Miller, but an injury to backup goaltender Jacob Markstrom at a fan event may have put a halt to those plans.

A new wrinkle has been added to the NHL trade deadline, as the Vegas Golden Knights can start to make deals as soon as their final payment is made to the league.

And what do you know, that day is today!

One of the more coveted assets for the Dallas Stars at the 2017 NHL trade deadline, Patrick Sharp, might be officially off the market.

The veteran winger is dealing with an injury, and TVA reporter Renaud Lavoie reported on Wednesday that it might be too severe for teams to trade for him.

With the playoffs fading out of sight in a year the Lightning expected to compete for a Stanley Cup, general manager Steve Yzerman is retooling on the fly

Yesterday, Yzerman traded center Brian Boyle to Toronto. If reports from TSN insider Bob McKenzie are to be believed (it’s Bob, so they are), they’re getting ready to move veteran center Valtterri Filppula.

The Detroit Red Wings continue to sell at the trade deadline, as they’ve dealt noted tough guy Steve Ott to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for a sixth-round pick.

Montreal was rumored to be in for Ott earlier on Tuesday evening, and the deal came through early Wednesday morning to the surprise of many.

Two years after poaching two veterans from the Chicago Blackhawks, the Dallas Stars are sending one of them back via trade.

The Stars sent defenseman Johnny Oduya back to Chicago on Tuesday, receiving prospect Mark McNeil and a conditional fourth round pick in return from their division rivals.

The Carolina Hurricanes have made two moves (so far) leading up to the NHL trade deadline on Wednesday.

Neither are the BIG MOVE™ many expected them to make. But it seems like these are the first steps toward that.

If the Islanders make any big splash at the trade deadline, the first will reportedly involve their veteran netminder.

The Fourth Period reports that the Islanders are in talks with “at least three teams” about a trade for goalie Jaroslav Halak. TFP previously beat everyone to the Ben Bishop trade to the Kings, so this might hold some water.

You might’ve heard that the St. Louis Blues traded Kevin Shattenkirk to the Washington Capitals on Monday. It was kind of big news.

What you didn’t hear was that the trade was absolutely bonkers complicated. I don’t even care if that’s a good grammatical sentence. My brain is broken after reading the conditions involved here.

Well, we can officially classify the Tampa Bay Lightning as “sellers.”

The Bolts made their second notable trade in 24 hours on Monday, sending veteran center Brian Boyle to the Toronto Maple Leafs in a package for forward Byron Froese and a 2017 second round pick in the NHL draft.

The Benn Brothers in Dallas are no more.

The Stars traded defenseman Jordie Benn to the Montreal Canadiens on Monday, splitting up one of the NHL’s only brother tandems. Defenseman Greg Pateryn and a 2017 fourth round pick are heading back to Dallas.

When the Tampa Bay Lightning traded goalie Ben Bishop to the Los Angeles Kings on Sunday, it caught a lot of people off guard.

What about the Flames? What about the Stars? Bishop had been on the trade market all season, and the Kings rarely came up as a destination. Especially since Jonathan Quick returned on Saturday.

The high prices paid for role players on the NHL trade market the last few days has fans across the league hoping their team gets in on the action.

The Toronto Maple Leafs won’t, if their coach is to be believed. Nor do they need to.

The Arizona Coyotes moved on from a franchise veteran on Sunday, trading Martin Hanzal to the Minnesota Wild for a bevy of draft picks.

The move was inevitable, as the Coyotes are out of playoff contention and Hanzal is an unrestricted free agent after the season with a rising trade value. But Coyotes captain Shane Doan didn’t seem too happy about the trade when asked about it by Todd Walsh of Fox Sports Arizona during intermission on Sunday night.

So here’s the general reaction I (and, honestly, everyone else) had when we read the price the Wild paid for Arizona Coyotes center Martin Hanzal on Sunday:

That certainly would qualify as all-in. At least the Wild spread around the riches a little bit: