NHL trade deadline 2025 live updates: Brad Marchand to Panthers, Mikko Rantanen to Stars and analysis of every deal
NHL trade deadline 2025 live updates: Brad Marchand to Panthers, Mikko Rantanen to Stars and analysis of every deal
The trade deadline has officially passed, with several big names moved today including Mikko Rantanen, Brad Marchand and Scott Laughton
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The NHL trade deadline has officially passed. Here are the biggest deals that were completed today:
Grading the Maple Leafs’ trade deadline
The Leafs suddenly have a top four that makes sense — Tanev next to McCabe, Rielly next to Carlo — and a No. 2 pairing in Rielly-Carlo that can check off some secondary defensive matchups. A team that’s struggled to defend just added a really strong (and long) defender who should provide a meaningful boost on the penalty kill. Carlo will step into PK minutes there that went to Conor Timmins, who seemed out of place in that role all year. Add the fact that Carlo is signed for two more seasons after this one at $3.48 million and the Leafs have nailed things on the back end for the foreseeable future.
About a half hour before the NHL trade deadline hit Friday afternoon, Montreal Canadiens rookie defenceman Lane Hutson was sitting by himself on the bench at the Scotiabank Saddledome, all geared up, ready to go practice. There was no one on the ice, he could have jumped on, but he was sitting there, waiting.
Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki arrived a few minutes later, shared a few words with Hutson and stepped on the ice. Hutson followed him out there. And the two of them shot a few pucks together before the rest of their Canadiens teammates came and joined them.
The practice was scheduled for 1 p.m. Mountain Time, right at the trade deadline. It was not a coincidence.
And Hutson not wanting to go on the ice by himself was symbolic of that timing, and why it was timed that way.
