No. 2 Colorado Avalanche vs. No. 3 Minnesota Wild
The Golden Knights are the No. 1 seed in the West Division right now, but they may not be for long. They lost to the Colorado Avalanche 2-1 on Monday, and the Avs are now closing in on the top spot. Vegas (80 points) has only one regular-season game to play, while Colorado (78) still has two.
The Avalanche has a pair of home games against the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday and Thursday, so there s a good chance they can overtake the Golden Knights. But if they lose both, it s still possible that the Wild (75 points with two games to play) could still move up to the No. 2 seed, although it s unlikely.
On Saturday night, the Nashville Predators became the 15th team in the NHL this season to clinch a spot in the Stanley Cup playoffs after defeating the Carolina Hurricanes 3-1.
Not anymore.
Friday s trade with the Baltimore Ravens for 24-year-old offensive tackle Orlando Brown Jr. filled the vacancy left by Fisher on the blind side, providing the cherry on top for a sneaky-awesome offensive line rebuild.
The Chiefs also added mega-efficient, durable and reliable veteran Joe Thuney at left guard. They brought three-time Pro Bowler Kyle Long out of retirement. They signed the versatile and battle-tested Austin Blythe as a potential replacement for Reiter. And they re-signed veteran Mike Remmers to return ideally as a swing tackle/depth piece.
Throw in the presence of Andrew Wylie, Martinas Rankin, Nick Allegretti and 2020 opt-outs Duvernay-Tardif and Lucas Niang, and just like that you ve got one of the deepest offensive lines in the NFL.
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The 2021 NHL trade deadline is quickly approaching it will arrive at 3 p.m. ET on Monday and deals have started to hit the transaction wire.
The New Jersey Devils traded veteran forwards Kyle Palmieri and Travis Zajac on Wednesday, while the Florida Panthers moved Brett Connolly, Riley Stillman and Henrik Borgstrom on Thursday. With those two trades, the New York Islanders and Chicago Blackhawks helped load up for the playoff chase.
More moves are likely to come in over the weekend, as teams like New York and Chicago look to buy and teams like New Jersey and Florida look to sell. The Columbus Blue Jackets a playoff team in each of the past four seasons could be among the latter group this year.