As the 2022-23 NHL season closes in on the halfway point we are starting to get a good sense as to which teams are contenders and which teams are not.
That also means we are getting a sense for the buyers and sellers as we approach the NHL trade deadline in a couple of months.
The top names available are expected to be Vancouver's Bo Horvat, Chicago's Patrick Kane and Jonathan Toews, and perhaps even St. Louis' Ryan O'Reilly and Vladimir Tarasenko. All of those players are pending unrestricted free agents on teams that would seem to be going nowhere this season.