2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[bluejays]

Marner's betting on himself which is cool and all but when will teams realize that you're paying him 1A money, but he will not lead your team in the playoffs because he physically can't. He's skilled and all, but he will not go through tough d, and he will not grind it out in the corners. When you pay him that much money he should be leading you in the playoffs by doing those exhausting things. He can't and won't.

[ForeverFlameFan]

Originally Posted by Kipper_3434

Would be pretty fun to have marner on a 2x14. Likely hurts the future though unless you flip him for a haul later.

He probably gets that cap hit at 7 years

[Groot]

Originally Posted by bluejays

Couldn't be more wrong. Tavares is a guy who's been consistent in the playoffs. He plays smart and hard. He's not flashy at all so it's easy to not grab attention but he's there and he tries hard.

Career 0 941 PPG player in the regular season
Career 0.707 PPG player in the playoffs. 0 548 PPG combined in the last 3 playoffs, 0.538 PPG last playoffs, after a brutal 0.286 PPG the playoffs prior.

[The Cobra]

Originally Posted by Kipper_3434

Would be pretty fun to have marner on a 2x14. Likely hurts the future though unless you flip him for a haul later.

It's 2 years, how could this hurt our future?

Other than hurting our draft picks, but that ship has likely sailed anyway.

In any event, the offensive opportunities aren't located in Calagry.

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by Groot

Career 0 941 PPG player in the regular season
Career 0.707 PPG player in the playoffs. 0 548 PPG combined in the last 3 playoffs, 0.538 PPG last playoffs, after a brutal 0.286 PPG the playoffs prior.

I’d argue a couple things. 1) Playoffs tightens up, 2) his linemates have been up and down so of course his production goes down too. Seriously, if you watch the games he’s among the better out there to play smart.

[Poe969]

Flames should sign Marner to a 1 year 15 million dollar deal just to trade him at the deadline.

[Aarongavey]

Originally Posted by Groot

Career 0 941 PPG player in the regular season
Career 0.707 PPG player in the playoffs. 0 548 PPG combined in the last 3 playoffs, 0.538 PPG last playoffs, after a brutal 0.286 PPG the playoffs prior.

In fairness to Tavares, he has been so brutal in the playoffs which has led to a relatively small sample size (75 games) for a guy who is turning 35. In those 75 games he has 53 points so he is about a 58 point guy in the playoffs.

[Mr.Coffee]

Originally Posted by The Cobra

Marner is considering taking a 2 year contract and wait until the cap rises considerably to get a much larger 8 year contract.

Presumably he might go to one of the teams with mega cap on a two year max deal as long as the offensive opportunities were there.

I just think this type of thing is insanely risky. Take your bag of cash now after you put up amazing numbers… don’t risk career ending injury or putting up more pedestrian numbers and then ending up with half the value you otherwise could have.

Take the money if it’s there. He should be signing a monster deal here.

[Wolven]

Originally Posted by The Original FFIV

If you can get an uograde at D at low to minimal cost, you have to do it. If it blocks a current prospect, so be it. Gives kuznetsov more time to ripen. If he bolts for khl, so be it. Second round picks are statistically less likely to make the show. Not every pick will make it, and given the trades we’ve made and draftees since we too kuznetsov, he’s likely further down the depth chart.

If a player in the age range that we are looking for becomes available and is an upgrade on what we have , you have to pull the trigger. If it upsets a prospect and they bolt, oh well. Draft another prospect.

Sure, roster upgrades are cool. Like I said, if it is a choice between Kuznetsov and Poirier vs. Byram then I think that is a no-brainer.

However, if the choice is between finding out what we have with our home grown players vs. another year of Hanley (or some other vet) or adding Samuelsson then I am not sold that perpetually blocking our player development is worth it.

My hot take is that Samuelsson isn't a big prize, he is an injury-prone cap dump that the Sabres are trying to unload in order to keep their better players. He has 7 goals in 5 NHL seasons and he has missed almost half of those seasons due to injuries. The fact that his cap hit is on the wrong side of $4M doesn't help.

Leave the spot open for Kuznetsov, Solovyov, Poirier, Brzustewicz, Grushnikov, etc. to compete for.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Agree with wolves. This team isn’t going to be competing for anything. It’s time to see what we have. We can always make trades to upgrade.

[Paulie Walnuts]

Lebrun is reporting knights or kings for Marner with stars as long shots

[TheScorpion]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

I've got some bad news. If we extrapolate only the last few hours, there will never be another NHL trade ever again.

Still valid. Sorry.

[Royle9]

Buffalo speculated trade with Calgary.
Fan based (Buffalo) from what I can tell, so no apparent validity at this point but I’m asking.

BUF receives:
Mews
Vladar * rights
Pospisil
4th rnd pick

CGY receive:
Byram

[Paulie Walnuts]

Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Still valid. Sorry.

It is your duty in life to find something as fun as the sunrise gas station reviews lol

[Ped]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Lebrun is reporting knights or kings for Marner with stars as long shots

Stars? How on earth could the Stars fit that in?

[Southside]

Originally Posted by Royle9

Buffalo speculated trade with Calgary.
Fan based (Buffalo) from what I can tell, so no apparent validity at this point but I’m asking.

BUF receives:
Mews
Vladar * rights
Pospisil
4th rnd pick

CGY receive:
Byram

I'll take it.

[Roko]

Originally Posted by Royle9

Buffalo speculated trade with Calgary.
Fan based (Buffalo) from what I can tell, so no apparent validity at this point but I’m asking.

BUF receives:
Mews
Vladar * rights
Pospisil
4th rnd pick

CGY receive:
Byram

I think this works for Calgary well. Mews likely has no room to play here. Vladar is gone. Pospisil basically replaced by Klapka or they chase Jeannot

[dammage79]

Frickin sold. There's some really quality in there with pops and Mews but it's Chaffe for Byram. I'll take it. Gives Buffalo some diversity.

[Poe969]

I would take that trade in a heartbeat!. I'd prefer Peterka but I'd like Byram too.

[Flames Fan, Ph.D.]

Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts

Lebrun is reporting knights or kings for Marner with stars as long shots

Go kings go

Go kings go