Silver Seven · Feb 27, 2017
Here’s How to Make the NHL Trade Deadline Interesting
The NHL trade deadline is just two days away, and there have only been two “big” moves with Ben Bishop to Los Angeles and Martin Hanzal to Minnesota. Usually most of the trades happen in the final hours before the deadline, but it’s always awkward on the morning of the deadline while there has been no action whatsoever.
TSN and Sportsnet have to fill hours of television from 5am eastern time all the way until some time after the 3pm deadline, which is not easy to do as James Duthie will tell you. That is a lot of TV, especially when there isn’t a whole lot happening:
OTT/STL is the shootout equivalent of trade deadline. Umm...somebody do something.