Avalanche, Blues Biggest Winners of 2026 Trade Deadline - Daily Faceoff

The Wild West – Trade Deadline Winners and Losers

Happy Monday y'all! I hope you didn't call out of work and spend your entire Friday hoping for entertainment all day while watching a trade deadline show because you probably would have fallen asleep! However, we got more trades after the official 3 pm EST/12 pm PT deadline passed as management teams must have looked at the clock and said "Fine, let's do it." I wonder if they play every team’s goal song, or maybe some Nickelback as their hold mu…

Avalanche, Blues biggest winners of 2026 Trade Deadline - Daily Faceoff

A few days after the NHL Trade Deadline slammed shut, it’s starting to become a little bit clearer where teams stand coming out of the chaos.  While the end-of-season results and the next several years will eventually determine the genuine winners and losers from Friday’s transactions, the first impressions and instant results remain important as well.  On Monday’s episode of Daily Faceoff Live, hosts Tyler Yaremchuk and Carter Hutton broke down…

MTPS: Winners and Losers of the Dead 2026 NHL Trade Deadline

Well, that was anticlimactic.We'll get into the full winners, losers, and the WTF section in a minute. But before we do, the biggest loser of the trade deadline is the NHL as a whole. As Jake laid out, they put in place several rules to try and make it more difficult for teams to circumvent the salary cap, and the unintended consequence of that was a dud of a trade deadline. For a league that doesn't see very many star players reach free agency,…