The NHL’s Western Conference wild-card battle is heating up after the trade deadline.

The Ottawa Senators are in Philadelphia tonight, and it's hard to predict what kind of team they'll encounter. After losing four games in a row, the Flyers are now staring at the business end of a fifth straight season without making the playoffs.

If you were to ask any Columbus Blue Jackets fan what the biggest game of the season was, most would say the March 1 Stadium Series game against the Detroit Red Wings, and rightfully so. That game was amazing to watch, both on TV and live, and was something that every Blue Jackets fan had been waiting 25 years for.

The trade deadline is usually an eventful time of the year for Swedish forward Oskar Sundqvist. Last year on the day before the deadline he signed a two-year contract extension with the St. Louis Blues. Each of the two years before that he was traded – in 2022 from the Blues to the Detroit Red Wings and then in 2023 from Detroit to the Minnesota Wild.

The Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins announced they have traded defensemen Nikolai Knyzhov to the Grand Rapids Griffins in exchange for future considerations.

The Buffalo Sabres made some significant roster changes before the NHL trade deadline, including trading center Dylan Cozens to Ottawa. However, GM Kevyn Adams also accomplished one of his stated goals before 3 p.m. last Friday: signing veteran forwards Jordan Greenway and Jason Zucker to contract extensions.

While the trade deadline has come and gone at the NHL level, the same restriction is not in place in the AHL, where the deadline won't hit until the 14th of March. As such, the Red Wings organization swung a deal to acquire left-handed defenseman Nikolai Knyzhov from the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins for now more than "future considerations."

A new roster update is now live in NHL 25.

Would you be surprised to hear that the Vancouver Canucks are 16th in the NHL in power play percentage? While the team is currently floating around the middle of the pack in this stat, eye tests of their man-advantage say otherwise. Even more incriminating is the data provided by Natural Stat Trick, which indicates that Vancouver’s power play offense is not as effective as it may seem to be from a surface-level point of view.

Leading up to last Friday’s NHL trade deadline, the Dallas Stars already looked like a true Stanley Cup contender.