Satiar Shah

But others were asking us, why is the NHL trade market popping off?

I think it's a reflection of a number of things.

The first one being the draft class itself, to some extent, but the bigger trades as a whole.

There are fewer players available in free agency.

And there are 32 teams.

And if you're looking at trying to be a better team right now that wants to compete, and the only two teams that are embracing a rebuild are the Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks.

And you can say for now on both.

Everybody else is trying to get better.

So you finally have ambition for 30 teams.

You have a very scarce free agent market.

You have cap space and you have teams that have, again, a lot of ambition.

I think all these factors are driving these trades.

Yeah.

They are, what, three years into this?

And the thing is, you can't perfectly sequence everything and trade everyone and then just hope that you're picking and drafting and developing players that all kind of fit together and grow together seamlessly.

It doesn't work that way.

term for seven years we have you under that control you better align with everything no like the league is changing in real time no absolutely and you know final thought and it looks like this trade is going down not official yet but pierre lebrun and and darren dreger reporting that byram is happy to join the blackhawks they're going to work out a contract extension in the near future and the trade call is happening right now so only a matter of time before this trade is made official

And people are asking, if Bowen Byram got this, that means Hronik has more value.

Not necessarily.

Bowen Byram is a left-hand defenseman.