I think Trocheck and Kadri being dealt are largely waiting on O’Reilly now. He is having a great season and has by far the best contract to take on out of the three.
Apparently when the break ended, O’Reilly had no appetite to discuss trades while Nashville were so close to a playoff spot.
Now they’ve lost enough to have fallen back out of the playoff race enough to make them sellers, but O’Reilly left the game with an eye injury last night. Apparently it’s not supposed to be too bad, but they’re waiting on an evaluation back home tomorrow.
Barring the eye injury coming back as significant or a miracle trade between Colorado and Calgary, I think O’Reilly is the first domino to fall. I would be surprised if there aren’t some teams that have been waiting to see if he becomes available by the deadline. I think we are also waiting on teams in the Thomas sweepstakes right now too.
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