NHL Trade Deadline 2025 Live Blog: Will Dallas close the deal with Rantanen?
Follow along here during the entire final day of NHL trade action for news and analysis of all the biggest moves.
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The 2025 NHL trade deadline is here, and though we’ve seen a number of big moves already happen this week, there is still much to be done on the final day of dealing.
NHL teams can swap players and picks up until the 3:00 p.m. ET/12:00 p.m. PT deadline.
What will become of Brad Marchand and the Bruins? Can the Winnipeg Jets and Edmonton Oilers keep up with the buying spree going on in the West? Will the Toronto Maple Leafs match what division rivals Florida and Tampa Bay have accomplished so far?
Follow along with your live blog for the latest news and notes from the most intriguing deals of the day.
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Will Carolina and Dallas get the trade done, or will other teams be able to jump back in? (8:42 am)
When a (very) late night came to an end, the last update was that the Hurricanes and Stars had the framework of a deal done to send Mikko Rantanen back out West. Dallas was just trying to negotiate an extension with the winger.
“Getting that done — or close enough to it that Dallas is comfortable — will be critical to completing the trade,” Elliotte Friedman reported overnight.
As the hockey world woke up that deal was still not done, and it’s unclear if this trade will get over the line, or if Carolina will have to start exploring other options. That will be the biggest story of the day — where will Rantanen end up?
“There’s some time today, we’ll see how it all goes,” Friedman said Friday on the FAN 590’s Morning Show. “One of the things that was definitely the case over the last couple of days is that teams believed that Dallas was a team that Rantanen was willing to sign with, so we’ll see how it all progresses.”
There are just over six hours until the deadline.
San Jose’s nice bit of business with Jake Walman (8:30 am)
Last June the Sharks acquired Jake Walman and a 2024 second-round pick from Detroit for future considerations. At this deadline, they moved him back out to Edmonton for a conditional 2026 first-round pick, and prospect Carl Berglund.
That’s a first- and a second-round pick for Walman to come in and spend 50 games with the rebuilding Sharks, a nice bit of asset management from GM Mike Grier.
