There are two-and-a-half weeks left until the NHL trade deadline, and this year's big-ticket players are at last getting real speculation thrown around about their next destinations. One of those players is Columbus Blue Jackets defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov.
Gavrikov is set to be an unrestricted free agent in July and comes with a trade-palatable salary-cap hit of $2.8 million. That he could be moved without there being too many other machinations needed to make it happen makes him an easy target of desire, particularly for teams that may be in on Arizona's Jakob Chychrun but are spooked out by the Coyotes' lofty asking price.