The NHL’s decision to hold a “decentralized” draft this year, where teams remain in their home cities (akin to the NFL draft) instead of the traditional venue where they all meet on the same floor at the host city means that the recently completed NHL draft combine was the event where all the managers were in the same place at the same time.
Given that the trade market resets and teams start to think about the moves needed for cap compliance now, wheels are starting to turn about which pieces are going to fit where. Penguins GM Kyle Dubas acknowledged as much that younger players may no longer be a fit with their current teams and could be targets for the Pens.