Commentator Philip Maykov, creator of the HockeyFil channel and participant of the Slippery Ice podcast, said in a comment for socialbites.ca that it is wrong to divide NHL clubs into beneficiaries and losers of the league’s trade deadline. He examined this issue using the example of the Calgary Flames, where Russian forward Andrei Kuzmenko plays.
“In terms of beneficiaries and losers, you understand that it is a little wrong to divide things in this way. They are all simply either sellers or buyers, and I cannot condemn sellers, for example. Take Calgary for example. Nobody wants to play there and that’s understandable. So yes, minus Tanev, minus Hanifin, it wouldn’t surprise me if Markstrom was traded like Toffoli was traded before. No one wants to stay there, despite the fact that Calgary is officially in contention for the wild card (seventh and eighth places in the conference give them the right to play in the playoffs – “socialbites.ca”). They’re doing very well but that’s apparently it, “Calgary” is self-eliminating, so they’re losers? In principle no, but if people don’t want to play for you, you change them and create a new team, this is a natural process. Or like “Arizona”, same thing. We were doing well, then we went on a streak of 14 straight losses, Armstrong (Arizona general manager – “socialbites.ca”) and directly said: that’s it, we lost the season, we will sell, everything is as usual. So can we condemn him here, or call him pathetic? No, of course not. Typical Arizona.
At the trade deadline, Calgary sent defenseman Noah Hanifin to Vegas and two days ago traded another defenseman, Christopher Tanev, to Dallas. At the deadline, Arizona traded defensemen Troy Stecher and Matt Dumba to Edmonton and Tampa Bay, respectively, and sent Jason Zucker to Nashville.
Kuznetsov, who previously transferred to Carolina from Washington given piston