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The incident came at the end of a three-minute shift from Edler.
Hyman stayed down for a while and was eventually ruled out for the remainder of the game. He appeared to get hit in the right knee, which required surgery in 2019 to repair a torn ACL.
Matthews missed Thursday's game against the Winnipeg Jets due to a wrist injury. Keefe said the ailment was similar to but not the same one that kept Matthews out earlier in the campaign. The star pivot leads the NHL with 32 goals.
Nylander missed Toronto's last five games while he was in COVID-19 protocol. The Swede has 30 points in 39 contests this season.
Pierre Engvall and Adam Brooks will come out of the lineup to make room for Matthews and Nylander. Here are Toronto's projected forward lines based on Saturday's practice:
LW
C
RW
Alex Galchenyuk
Auston Matthews
Mitch Marner
Nick Robertson
John Tavares
William Nylander
Ilya Mikheyev
Alexander Kerfoot
Zach Hyman
Joe Thornton
Jason Spezza
Wayne Simmonds
The Leafs are looking to get back in the win column after dropping their last three games. Meanwhile, the Canucks are playing in their first game since March 24 due to their COVID outbreak.
San Jose Sharks head coach Bob Boughner decided to send a message to two of his key young players Saturday against the Minnesota Wild.
Wingers Timo Meier and Kevin Labanc were both demoted to the fourth line after the opening frame.
"They were both horrible in the first period," Boughner said, according to The Athletic's Kevin Kurz. "They didn't deserve to play in the top six or the top nine for that matter. I just made the decision after the first period, if you're not ready to play, put both those guys on the same line and let them try to figured it out down there."
The Sharks trailed 3-1 after the first period and ended up losing 5-2.
Labanc actually ended up playing 17:34 in the contest - second among Sharks forwards. He also notched an assist in the third period and his five-on-five expected goals share of 76.7% was third-best on the team, according to Natural Stat Trick.
Meier logged 13:29 in the game - nearly three minutes below his season average. He finished with a minus-1 rating, a 44% expected goals share, and no points.
Labanc, 25, and Meier, 24, are tied for fifth on the Sharks with 25 points each this season.
The Arizona Coyotes were playing with heavy hearts on Saturday night.
Prior to the game against the St. Louis Blues, Leighton Accardo, a nine-year-old who died in November after a long battle with cancer, was inducted into the Coyotes' ring of honor.
The honor has been exclusively reserved for former players, coaches, general managers, or broadcasters across the NHL. But Accardo will join the likes of Wayne Gretzky, Keith Tkachuk, Jeremy Roenick, Teppo Numminen, Dale Hawerchuk, Thomas Steen, and Bobby Hull inside Gila River Arena.
Accardo left a lasting impact on the entire Coyotes organization.
A beautiful life packed into 9 years. A beautiful legacy just getting started.
The Coyotes trailed the Blues 2-0 after 20 minutes, but captain Oliver Ekman-Larsson guaranteed the team would complete a comeback victory in honor of Accardo.
Down by two goals after the first on a night honoring Leighton Accardo, Oliver Ekman-Larsson (@OEL23) guaranteed an @ArizonaCoyotes win... and it came to be.
The Coyotes ended up scoring three unanswered goals to take the game 3-2. Ekman-Larsson picked up an assist while logging 19:24 of ice time in the contest.
Colorado canceled its morning skate Wednesday as a result.
Grubauer, 29, has been enjoying a career year, going 25-8-1 with a .920 save percentage and a 2.00 goals-against average.
Colorado added veteran goaltender Devan Dubnyk ahead of the trade deadline. Dubnyk and Jonas Johansson, whom the Avalanche acquired in March from the Buffalo Sabres, will likely share the crease until Grubauer returns.
The 28-year-old has recorded 11 goals and eight assists in 40 games this season while averaging 13:09 per contest. He's posted solid underlying numbers, too.
Conor Sheary (2x1.5m extension with Washington) is a good play-drive with a good shot; I wouldn't use him on the power-play very much. Good penalty differential. Very team-friendly deal. pic.twitter.com/P4dph0EBRF
The Caps signed Sheary to a one-year deal with a $735,000 cap hit while he was a free agent this past offseason.
The 5-foot-8, 179-pound forward was originally signed by the Pittsburgh Penguins as an undrafted free agent in 2014 following a standout NCAA career at UMass. Sheary won two Stanley Cups with the Pens in 2016 and 2017.
"Tonight was an absolute embarrassment," the veteran blue-liner said, according to The Athletic's Joe Smith.
The Preds controlled 62% of both the high-danger scoring chances and the expected goals at five-on-five, per Natural Stat Trick.
"This was one of the worst performances I've seen in a Lightning uniform from our group," said McDonagh, who joined Tampa prior to the 2018 trade deadline.
He added it was "not even close" to halfway effort.
The Lightning will get a chance to rebound on Thursday against the Florida Panthers.
Meanwhile, the Predators are arguably the hottest team in the NHL, as they've compiled an 11-2-0 record in their last 13 games. They've been banged up for a good portion of this stretch, too. Filip Forsberg, Matt Duchene, Eeli Tolvanen, and Dante Fabbro were among those missing from Tuesday's lineup.
Anaheim Ducks captain Ryan Getzlaf stayed with his rebuilding club through the deadline despite being a pending unrestricted free agent. However, there were no shortage of suitors for the veteran center.
"I don't want to dig too much into the details of everything," Getzlaf said Tuesday, according to The Athletic's Eric Stephens. "(General manager Bob Murray) was approached by a few different teams. Vegas, being one of them, I think, at some point. Were they part of the mix? I'm sure. They're a contender in our division."
Getzlaf's contract contains a full no-movement clause, per CapFriendly, so he would've controlled his own destiny in any deal.
The 35-year-old was only willing to facilitate a move out of Anaheim if the Ducks could get something significant in return, Murray said Monday, according to The Associated Press' Greg Beacham.
"It wasn't there," Murray said. "He is all about the organization, whatever is best for us."
The Golden Knights are a legitimate Stanley Cup contender, but if they have a weakness, it's down the middle of the ice. Chandler Stephenson and William Karlsson are the club's top two pivots, while Cody Glass, Tomas Nosek, and Nicolas Roy round out the team's bottom-six center options.
Getzlaf is one of the best centers of his generation, ranking sixth in points at his position since entering the league in 2005-06. He's having the worst season of his career, though, as he's registered just three goals and 12 assists in 37 contests. The Ducks rank dead last in the league in goals.
It's possible Getzlaf's contract would've posed an issue in a potential trade. Vegas has just $153,816 in current space, and Getzlaf is in the final year of an eight-year contract carrying an annual cap hit of $8.25 million.
With the NHL trade deadline behind us, it's time to award winners and losers. Given that Monday was the quietest deadline day since 2000, we're considering every deal made from Friday and onward for this exercise.
Winners
Red Wings and Capitals
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The Detroit Red Wings and Washington Capitals are both winners for adding some much-needed excitement to a rather stale deadline day after pulling off a blockbuster deal right at the buzzer. The full trade: Detroit sent forward Anthony Mantha to Washington for forwards Jakub Vrana, Richard Panik, a 2021 first-round pick, and a 2022 second-round pick.
Vrana, 25, has been a more efficient offensive player than Mantha, 26, since the 2018-19 campaign:
Stat
Vrana
Mantha
GP
190
152
PTS
124
107
P/PG
0.65
0.70
P/60 (5v5)
2.49
1.94
TOI/G
14:25
18:14
The key here is points per 60 minutes at five-on-five, since Mantha has averaged nearly four more minutes per game than Vrana. By gleaning Vrana's production over first-line minutes, he has the potential to become a 70-plus point player. It's not always that simple, as first-line minutes generally come with tougher matchups. Whether he can handle that remains to be seen.
Points are obviously not everything, though. Both players have posted exceptional underlying numbers over the past three seasons as well.
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The biggest difference is Mantha's superior defensive metrics on the far right of the graph. The 6-foot-5, 234-pounder also passes the eye test as the better defensive player, considering how well he skates for his size.
However, the Red Wings are clear winners in this trade. GM Steve Yzerman gets a winger who's proven he can produce at a similar rate than Mantha, while also netting first- and second-round picks to help the rebuild.
The deal could end up being a win for Washington as well - it's just not as much of a sure thing. Mantha is already a defensive upgrade from Vrana, and it's possible he could reach his full offensive potential as a 30-40 goal power forward while playing on a second line with Nicklas Backstrom and T.J. Oshie.
The Caps are getting cost-certainty with Mantha, too. He's signed through 2023-24 at $5.7-million per year. Vrana makes $3.35 million this year but is an RFA at season's end. His AAV probably won't approach Mantha's (likely in the $4-million to $5-million range), but Panik's deal is the difference-maker here. He's on the books for $2.75-million through 2022-23, which is far too much for a fourth-line player on a team up against the cap. For the next two seasons, Mantha is likely $1-million to $2-million cheaper than Vrana plus Panik combined. It may seem marginal, but that's huge for a contending team.
Washington is clearly in win-now mode given most of its core is on the wrong side of 30. If the Caps believe Mantha is a big enough upgrade over Vrana to help them win another Cup, it's worth sacrificing the draft picks.
A second-round pick for Hall is a flat-out steal for Boston. Other top rentals such as Nick Foligno, David Savard, and Kyle Palmieri all costed first-round picks. Hall came at a cheaper acquisition cost than Sam Bennett and Mattias Janmark. Yes, you read that correctly. That's some savvy work by Bruins general manager Don Sweeney. It also seems like poor market evaluation by Sabres GM Kevyn Adams, but it's possible he was left handcuffed due to Hall's no-movement clause.
Yes, Hall is having a miserable season, notching just two goals and 17 assists in 37 contests with Buffalo, but this is well worth the gamble for Boston. The former MVP has been severely unlucky this year, converting on just 2.3% of his shots. That's nearly 8% lower than his career average and the NHL league average of 10%.
It's not difficult to envision Hall breaking out of his slump on a far superior Bruins team while playing on a second line with David Krejci and either Craig Smith or David Pastrnak.
Bjork doesn't move the needle all that much. The 24-year-old has notched just five points in 30 games this season and his ceiling is likely capped as a third-liner, at best.
Meanwhile, Boston also shored up it's blue line by netting Mike Reilly from the Ottawa Senators for a third-round pick. The 27-year-old has recorded 19 assists in 40 games this season while posting extremely strong underlying numbers on a poor Sens team. He doesn't play difficult minutes, but his 51.3% expected goals share led all Ottawa blue-liners despite an offensive zone start percentage of just 35.6.
Reilly isn't the sexiest addition, but he fills a big need on a beleaguered Bruins blue line.
Columbus Blue Jackets
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The Blue Jackets netted strong returns for their two biggest assets - Nick Foligno and David Savard. In exchange for both rentals, they landed two first-round picks, a third-round pick, and a fourth-round pick. During a trade-deadline period where only four first-round picks were moved, getting half of them is nice work by GM Jarmo Kekalainen.
Yes, those first-round picks will likely be near the bottom of the opening round in an unpredictable draft, but Columbus is undergoing a reset and did well to get the best returns possible. Remember in 2019 when the Jackets went all-in and didn't pick until the fourth round? With three picks in the first round this season, the Jackets will get a chance to replenish their prospect pipeline.
Losers
Winnipeg Jets
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The Jets only made one move in the lead-up to the deadline, bringing in Jordie Benn from the Vancouver Canucks for a 2021 sixth-round pick. Benn is nothing more than a depth blue-liner and will have a hard time cracking a weak Winnipeg top six.
The Jets sorely needed a defenseman who can play in their top four, but failed to address it. If they weren't comfortable with surrendering first- and third-round picks for David Savard, there were far better options than Benn to help the blue line. Mike Reilly, Brandon Montour, Dmitry Kulikov, and Jon Merrill all would've been better additions, and none of them costed more than a third-round pick.
The Toronto Maple Leafs further separated themselves from the rest of the North Division by adding Nick Foligno, Riley Nash, Ben Hutton, and David Rittich. Winnipeg, likely Toronto's biggest competition in the division, could've closed the gap on the Leafs with upgrades on the blue line, but instead, the lack of aggressiveness from GM Kevin Cheveldayoff widened it.
Nashville Predators
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The Predators were widely expected to be sellers for over a month leading up to the deadline, but a six-game winning streak at the end of March vaulted Nashville back into playoff contention and changed GM David Poile's plans.
But should those plans have changed?
The Chicago Blackhawks entered Monday four points back of Nashville with a game in hand, while the Dallas Stars - who should get Tyler Seguin back soon - are six points back with three games in hand. Nashville will likely make the playoffs, but it isn't guaranteed.
Even if the Predators secure the 4-seed in the Central Division, a first-round upset over the Tampa Bay Lightning or Carolina Hurricanes seems highly improbable.
Now the Preds could lose pending UFA Mikael Granlund for nothing, and they likely missed their best chance at maximizing a return for Mattias Ekholm, a 2022 UFA.
The Predators did add rearguard Erik Gudbranson for a seventh-round pick, but his presence in the lineup arguably makes them a worse team.
The draft pick originally belonged to the Arizona Coyotes but was acquired by the Devils in the Taylor Hall trade last season.
The Capitals drafted Siegenthaler, 23, in the second round in 2015. The Swiss-born blue-liner has registered 13 points in 97 career NHL games. He fell out of favor with the Caps this season, suiting up in just seven contests.
The 6-foot-3 rearguard has posted strong defensive metrics while playing sheltered minutes in a small sample size.
Siegenthaler is in the final year of a contract with an $800,000 cap hit, per CapFriendly. He'll be a restricted free agent with arbitration eligibility at season's end.
The Devils have three veteran defensemen on expiring contracts, so it's possible Siegenthaler could see plenty of playing time down the stretch if all three blue-liners are moved by Monday's deadline.
