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NHL Trade Deadline: Best Potential Trade for Every Metropolitan Team

By Shepard Price

NHL Power Rankings: Washington Capitals players celebrate after their game against the Carolina Hurricanes at Verizon Center. The Capitals won 5-0. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports
NHL Power Rankings: Washington Capitals players celebrate after their game against the Carolina Hurricanes at Verizon Center. The Capitals won 5-0. Mandatory Credit: Geoff Burke-USA TODAY Sports /
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Washington Capitals

Everything that’s been good about the Capitals in the past few years remains good. Yeah, Alex Ovechkin had a slow start to the year, but he remains the preeminent goal scorer of the NHL. Braden Holtby is one of the few elite goaltenders who hasn’t false-started in 2017.

They’re not missing a lot, and it appears that they’re on their way to another President’s Cup, and another Metropolitan title.

So their best possible deal might be to just do nothing. But that’s not what I’m here for.

Washington Gives: Philipp Grubauer, G

Washington Gets: Nikita Zadorov, D; Colorado’s Second and Third Round picks

The Avalanche are a team that desperately needs to rebuild. They’re also a team with the ability to truly get Nolan Patrick, and so they must keep their first round pick.

Washington is a team that has an abundance of good goaltenders. They have Vezina winner Braden Holtby firmly in place, and will lose the young Grubauer to either the expansion draft or to an overpriced offer sheet. There’s a need for good goaltenders.

Especially in Colorado, which is why this deal works. Washington gets a young defenseman, which is exactly what they need right now, and they get to stockpile more picks, especially after trading two second rounders to Montreal for forward Lars Eller.

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