The NHL trade deadline is almost upon us. Friday, March 7, the deadline will come and go at 3:00 pm ET. Friday morning, we will be dropping our New Jersey Devils deadline preview. For now, check out a top-20 trade bait list and a trade tracker that will be updated by the minute as Friday comes and eventually goes.

Top-20 Trade List

Player	Team	Age	Statistics	Cap Hit	Status
Brock Nelson, C	NYI / (COL)	33	42 pts, 60 gp	$6 million	UFA
Scott Laughton, C	PHI / (TOR)	30	27 pts, 59 gp	$3 million	1 year
Brandon Tanev, W	SEA / (WPG)	33	17 pts, 60 gp	$3.5 million	UFA
Brock Boeser, W	VAN	28	36 pts, 53 gp	$6.65 million	UFA
Reilly Smith, W	NYR / (VGK)	33	29 pts, 58 gp	$3.75 million	UFA
Ryan Donato, C	CHI	28	44 pts, 59 gp	$2 million	UFA
Rickard Rakell, W	PIT	31	53 pts, 63 gp	$5 million	3 years
Rasmus Ristolainen, D	PHI	30	19 pts, 59 gp	$5.1 million	2 years
Jaime Oleksiak, D	SEA	32	13 pts, 62 gp	$4.6 million	1 year
Kyle Palmieri, W	NYI	34	41 pts, 61 gp	$5 million	UFA
Carson Soucy, D	VAN / (NYR)	30	9 pts, 58 gp	$3.3 million	1 year
Brayden Schenn, C	STL	33	36 pts, 60 gp	$6.5 million	3 years
Dylan Cozens, C	BUF	24	31 pts, 60 gp	$7.1 million	5 years
Mikko Rantanen, W	CAR / (DAL)	28	70 pts, 60 gp	$4.625 million	UFA
Connor Murphy, D	CHI	31	16 pts, 48 gp	$4.4 million	1 year
Petr Mrazek, G	CHI / (DET)	33	.890 sv%, 33 gp	$4.25 million	1 year
Casey Mittelstadt, C	COL / (BOS)	26	34 pts, 62 gp	$5.75 million	2 years
Bowen Byram, D	BUF	23	29 pts, 60 gp	$3.85 million	RFA
Michael McCarron, W	NSH	29	9 pts, 53 gp	$900,000	1 year
Joel Armia, W	MTL	31	24 pts, 61 gp	$3.4 million	UFA
John Gibson, G	ANA	31	.911 sv%, 25 gp	$6.4 million	2 years

Trade Tracker

Mar. 7 (Deadline Day)

TOR acquire F Reese Johnson / MIN acquire future considerations

TOR acquire D Brandon Carlo** / BOS acquire F Fraser Minten, ’26 1st-round pick*, ’25 4th-round pick (PHI)

PIT acquire F Connor Dewar, D Conor Timmons / TOR acquire ’25 5th-round pick

FLA acquire F Brad Marchand** / BOS acquire ’27 2nd-round pick*

NJ acquire F Marc McLaughlin / BOS acquire D Daniil Misyul

OTT acquire F Fabian Zetterlund, F Tristen Robins, ’25 4th-round pick / SJ acquire ’25 2nd-round pick, F Zack Ostapchuk, F Noah Gregor

BOS acquire D Henri Jokiharju / BUF acquire ’26 4th-round pick (EDM)

NJ acquire F Daniel Strong / SEA acquire ’26 7th-round pick

CAR acquire F Mark Jankowski / NSH acquire ’26 5th-round pick

NJ acquire F Cody Glass, F Jonathan Gruden / PIT acquire ’27 3rd-round pick, F Chase Stillman, F Max Graham

DAL acquire F Mikko Rantanen / CAR acquire F Logan Stankoven, ’26 1st-round pick*, ’28 1st-round pick*, ’27 3rd-round pick, ’26 3rd-round pick

NJ acquire D Dennis Cholowski / NYI acquire F Adam Beckman

TOR acquire F Scott Laughton**, ’25 5th-round pick, ’27 6th-round pick / PHI acquire ’27 1st-round pick*, F Nikita Grebenkin

NYR acquire F Nicolas Aube-Kubel / BUF acquire D Erik Brannstrom

COL acquire D Erik Johnson / PHI acquire F Givani Smith

CHI acquire D Shea Weber, F Aku Raty, D Victor Soderstrom / UTA acquire ’25 5th-round pick

CBJ acquire F Luke Kunin / SJ acquire ’25 4th-round pick (STL)

COL acquire F Charlie Coyle, ’26 5th-round pick / BOS acquire F Casey Mittelstadt, ’25 2nd-round pick* (CAR), F William Zellers

DET acquire G Petr Mrazek, F Craig Smith / CHI acquire F Joseph Veleno

WPG acquire F Brandon Tanev / SEA acquire ’27 2nd-round pick

WPG acquire D Luke Schenn / Pit acquire ’26 3rd-round pick, ’27 4th-round pick

OTT acquire F Dylan Cozens, D Dennis Gilbert, ’26 2nd-round pick / BUF acquire C Joshua Norris, D Jacob Bernard-Docker

LAK acquire F Andrei Kuzmenko** / PHI acquire ’27 3rd-round pick

WSH acquire F Anthony Beauvillier / PIT acquire ’25 2nd-round pick

Mar. 6

EDM acquire D Jake Walman / SJ acquire ‘26 1st-round pick*, F Carl Berglund

ANA acquire D Oliver Kylington / NYI acquire future considerations

COL acquire F Brock Nelson**, F William Dufour / NYI acquire F Calum Ritchie, D Oliver Kylington, ‘26 1st-round pick*, ‘28 3rd-round pick*

MIN acquire F Justin Brazeua / BOS acquire D Jakub Lauko, F Marat Khusnutdinov, ‘26 6th-round pick (BOS)

NYR acquire Carson Soucy / VAN acquire ‘25 3rd-round pick (SJ)

VGK acquire F Reilly Smith** / NYR acquire F Brendan Brisson, ‘25 3rd-round pick (SJ)

FLA acquire F Nico Sturm, ‘27 7th-round pick / SJ acquire ‘26 4th-round pick

NJ acquire D Brian Dumoulin** / ANA acquire F Herman Träff, 2nd-round pick*

Mar. 5

PIT acquire F Tommy Novak, D Luke Schenn / NSH acquire F Michael Bunting, ‘26 4th-round pick

SJ acquire D Vincent Desharnais / PIT acquire ‘28 5th-round pick

TB acquire F Oliver Bjorkstrand, F Yanni Gourde**, ’25 5th-round pick, D Kyle Aucion / SEA acquires Michael Eyssimont, ’25 1st-round pick*, ’26 1st-round pick, ’25 2nd-round pick (TOR) / DET acquire ’25 4th-round pick* (TBL)

FLA acquire G Vitek Vanecek / SJ acquire F Patrick Giles

Mar. 4

EDM acquire F Trent Frederic**, F Max Jones, F Petr Hauser / BOS acquire D Max Wanner, ’25 2nd-round pick, ’26 4th-round pick / NJ acquire F Shane LaChance

Mar. 1

FLA acquire D Seth Jones**, ’26 4th-round pick / CHI acquire G Spencer Knight, ’26 1st-round pick

MIN acquire F Gustav Nyquist** / NSH acquire ’26 2nd-round pick

COL acquire F Jimmy Vesey, D Ryan Lindgren, D Hank Kempf / NYR acquire D Calvin de Haan**, F Juuso Parssinen, ’25 2nd-round pick*, ’25 4th-round pick*

Note, all trades as of March 1. Picks are all from other team in deal unless otherwise noted. One asterisk denotes conditional picks, two asterisks denote salary retention.