That doesn’t take long. Just five days later, the first NHL deal of 2022 went down on Wednesday with the Pittsburgh Penguins sending homegrown forward Sam Lafferty to Chicago in exchange for Blackhawks minor league striker Alex Nylander, No. in general since 2016.
NHL’s trading deadline is exactly 75 days away.
With the holiday roster frozen and (hopefully) the worst of the COVID-19 roster decline behind us, the league’s commercial market will begin to heat up in the coming days and weeks.
Here are 20 names playing at the moment:
1. Tomas Hertl
Center, San Jose Sharks
Age: 28
Contract: UFA Pending, AAV $5,625 million
