NHL trade deadline winners and losers: Mikko Rantanen, Brad Marchand reshape Stanley Cup race

What 2025 The Time of Commercial NHL It lacks the quantity, as it compensates for quality. After all, we often do not have a long drama like Saga Miko Rantanin, which has taken many transformations and turns before it is deeply ended in the heart of Texas. The amazing acquisition of Marshans’s cooling on Brad Marshan is one of the great factors in the date of the deadline.

Now that the dust has settled – and know very well that The real winners and losers It will not be known until mid-June-let’s take a look at the most improved, and those who occupied the greatest opportunities that fell on their faces on the day of the deadline.

Winner: Florida Panthers

Imagine climbing on a line with both Brad Marshan and Matthew Takshouk on him. Good luck with that. Panthers GM Bill Zito has made the most out of the thigh injury to the TKachuk thigh that opened, which resulted in Marchand’s failure at the last minute after adding Seth Jones earlier in the week.

MARCHAND may not be the 100 -point player that he was six years ago, but he is still an excellent, comprehensive player and one of the great lesions in the game. You can rely on mice heated with fake mice after a great victory in South Florida at some point in this spring. Marchand and TKachuk are currently hurt, but both are expected to return to the post -season, which is all that matters in Florida. While Jones was paid as the defendant No. 1 in Black Hawk, it could be the number 3 distinguished in Florida (and the number 2 to move forward with Aaron Explid obtaining an unrestricted free agency this summer), and on the roof of more than 7 million dollars, where Chicago detained $ 2.5 million in the next five seasons.

Winner: Miko Rantanin

Rantanin was a member of Carolina Hurricanes for six weeks. He spent his first week on the road. He spent the next two weeks with the Finland team in Montreal and Boston. He had six home matches in Rally. It is completely reasonable that he was not ready to commit the eight years coming from his life to a privilege and a city barely known. And that he was paying for a deal of nine numbers, making things more.

Then Rantanin went and signed a eight -year deal with Dallas, a team that he had not played before, a city in which he did not live. And $ 96 million, less than Carolina was said to have offered. As if there was any doubt that the difference in tax -exempt countries has a feature that is inherent in the rest of the league.

Rantanin had full control over his position, so it should be happy with the deal or not. Although it was interesting to see what a person like Rantanin could have in the open market-players like him rarely reach this point-he joins one of the best and best teams in the league, and he gains the wealth of generations to do so. How can you see this as anything but win?

Winner: Dallas Stars

Jim Neil drew himself in a corner, where he delivered 96 million dollars to Rantanin with Tyler Seoin from the LTIR and Jason Robertson, White Johnston and Thomas Harley all raised a significant increase in the next two years. Then there is Captain Jimmy Ben, who is an unrestricted free agent. whatever. It will eventually reach this, and gave the date of Neil, it will definitely make everything work. What matters is that this is now the favorite of the Stanley Cup, the best team in NHL. Getting Rantanen – much lower than what will get in the open market – is a major stars coup. The NHL gravitational center continues to shift south.

Loser: Carolina Hurricanes

There is no spinning this as positive for hurricanes. GM Eric Tulsky did well enough to save something tangible from him – and if you go back to the initial deal with Colorado, this may be a net gain – but it is a bad rhythm. Hurricanes abandoned a distinguished talent with another year in a friend of gratitude in Martin Nikas to get Rantanin, and got 13 familiar games from him (he won only seven of them), then turned him to Dallas to Logan Stancovon and two of the first round choices. Stankoven is an exciting young player, but will it be at the NECAS level, not to mention Rantanen? The truth is that this is the best opportunity for Crulina to penetrate at an open eastern conference on a large scale. Instead, they are more than the dispute than they were years ago.

Hurricanes erupted from the team’s traditions last year by obtaining Jake Gantzel as rent, only to see him leaving to Tamba (another team in a tax -exempt!). This seems to have disturbed Carolina enough to contradict Rantanin around a rally, as a long -term house pushed this somewhat strict path. it’s a shame. Rantanin Superbber production (six points in 13 games) was, but he was generating a huge amount of registration opportunities. The goals would have come, and Rantanin monster in the qualifiers. Carolina could have disappeared for it, the consequences were cursed. Instead, hurricanes hedge and left in an attempt to achieve the best in a bad position.

Winner: Mitch Marner

With Rantanen off the painting, who is Belle of the Ball this summer in a free agency? Get this bag, Mitch.

Winner: Colorado Avanish

The deadline for trade is usually an incomplete tool for serving holes, as the difference stood and often settles to add something, anything, with the passage of the hour. There is rarely an ideal suitability for a team, and it is rare for such a trade. But Brock Nelson was completely suitable for collapse, giving them the second line center they needed clearly.

The price was high (one of the first founders and the highest possibilities Calum Ritchie, and the island’s residents can feel the same amount of this deal, such as Colorado. But Avalanche can win the Stanley Cup this season. Nelson makes them much better. Casey mittelstadt replace Charlie Cowel only helps. You will not hear anyone complaining about the Avalanche lack of centers anymore.

Al -Khasir: Colorado Avandoch

Eight years, 96 million dollars for feanin? This is largely what Avalanche presented to him before they sent him to Carolina. It is clear that there is a tax -free aspect, but if Rantanin never wanted to leave, Colorado is ready to strike the same number, then this initial trade to Carolina appears to be premature after it is too late.

Winnipeg took a small step forward today, adding a reasonable depth in Brandon Tanif and Luke Sheen.

But the West turned violently under the feet of Wenybeg. It was a small step forward a big step back. A week that started with the planes, where the department’s preferences end in disappointment.

– MURAT ATES (WPGMURAT) March 7, 2025

Winner: Chicago Black Hook

Jones Trading makes Blackhawks worse. There is no way to overcome this fact. Again, it may get worse before it improves in Chicago. But the appearance of Spencer Knight 41-SAVE for the first time in Chicago feels hope for the first time since the 2023 lottery, a victory that cannot be denied on Kyle Davidson only to keep $ 2.5 million on Jones’s contract in the next five seasons.

With Jones forced this issue and the lack of influence in Chicago, it seemed as if to empty the maximum futures contracts with the height of its retention was all that Blackhawks could be hoped for. Instead, they obtained a possible goalkeeper 1 and a first founder, without exhausting retention. Petr Mrázek and landing is a young man, who can control it, and the former founder of Joe Felino, a nice bonus not only transports a bad contract, but the average embarrassing situation is three ghouls. Beautiful work by Davidson.

Loser: Chicago Black Hook

Davidson, who flowed with the space of the cover and desperate for the band’s band in the foreground, was watching Rantanin as the perfect commander of Connor Bedard. Now that Rantanine has become outside the painting, Davidson can only hope that Toronto does not reach a deal with Marner-and that Marner extends for a reformer.

Winner: Tampa Bay Lightning

One day, there will be a account of Julian Price and Lightning, the day when all their main players suddenly abandon the aging curve and the cabinet completely naked. But that day is not today.

Tamba won 10 of her last 11 games, and she went back to the real level of NHL. And when you have a chance to win, you go. Prussoos appeared Ignoring the draft strands is almost comic at this stage -Tamba got one round in the first round of the last five drafts, and she was wandering in the first round of 2025, 2026 and 2027 (two others with better protection 10)-but also the correct position of the perennial competitor.

Yanni Gourde nor Oliver Bjorkstrand is neither a needle engine that changes the privilege, but lightning also knows that it is the addition of the second -class depths that make the difference in the post -season.

Every hockey fan should want General Motors to think of their team in this way.

Al -Khasir: Boufalo Sprers

While they were heading around the fourteenth spring in a row without a watershed, the swords had to do something. And they did something. But they did nothing really change anything.

At best, Dylan Kozins (and the depth of defender Dennis Gilbert) by Josh Norris (and the depth of defender Jacob Bernard-Dukir) is washing. In the worst case, it is sold to a very high -roof player. The swords sent a second founder to Ottawa for the privilege is confusing.

Instead of getting an aggressive menu and reshaping a talented list, but it is constantly weak by dealing with the likes of Jason Zucker or even Alex Tuch, the SABERS team stuck in place. This place is the last.

They are in the same position after the commercial deadline as they were before the commercial deadline – lost.

Winner: Toronto Maple Levis

Leafs did not have the most amazing deadline – at some point in the day, while chaos mocked, I wanted to raise Brad Trilivish with a stick and know if he was still awake. But Scott Laughon and Brandon Carlo are well infiltrated, getting a better defensive team, first and foremost.

Loton is definitely upgraded on Max Domi, who can move to the wing. While keeping the pamphlets in the half -salary of Laghton, Leafs gets a center in two reliable directions in a third race for a separate match at a distance of only $ 1.5 million. None of their best horizons or young players assigned them. Even the first founder of 2027 is the 10 best reserves.

Laughon is good on ice and wonderful in the room. It is not the most exciting step, but for a team that was done by its lack of depth forward in the previous postseasons, it is smart.

Loser: Vancouver Canox

It seems that there may be progress towards the Broeser extension, but what is this Canucks? They will not go on that, after JT Miller’s circulation earlier this season and Soucy to Rangers for a third founder on the deadline. They are not re -prepared, after they stick to it to Boeser and Elias Peettersson. The team captain and the best player, are in the vicinity of the qualifiers, and they seem to not go to anywhere slowly.

Winner: San Jose, sharks

For nothing at all, Sharks GM Mike Grier got 50 solid game from Jake Walman, a choice from the second round (from Detroit as a discharge hat sweetening last summer) and choosing from the first round (from Edmonton to and Man on Thursday). Steve Yazreman was never able to.

Loser: Edmonton Oils

Dallas went out and added the best player available in Rantanin and closed him in the long run. Colorado came out and added the highest rent available in Nelson. Edmonton added a strong defender in the second power in Walman and the third -line striker in Trent Friedrich. If this is the arms race, Edmonton loses. The Oilers are the hero of the defense conference and they were the favorite candidates to win all of this. Now, they seem to be the fifth best team in the West. It is stupid to doubt that Lyon Dreysiel and Kunor Makadafid, but Olers have an arduous rise to return to the final match.

(Clarification: Kelsea Petersen / Athlete; Bill Weber, Mike Stop, Josh Lavelli / Getty Emociz)