KANATA, Ontario -- As the March 1 NHL trade deadline nears, players are going to be asked about possible trades.
Especially in Canada.
Dallas has seven players who can become unrestricted free agents in the summer, and those players often become trade targets. Because teams can get them with only a couple of months left on their contracts, pending UFAs carry value. Dallas has Patrick Sharp, Patrick Eaves, Johnny Oduya, Jiri Hudler, Ales Hemsky, Lauri Korpikoski and Adam Cracknell in that group, and players such as Sharp, Eaves and Hudler understand they will see their names in trade rumors.