With today’s 3 p.m. trade deadline approaching in the NHL the rumors are going to be centered around Brad Richards. He is going to be a key piece of today’s activity. Lots of teams out there are looking to improve and what they are able to do may be decided by who ends up obtaining Richie (if anyone does). I will just update this post all day and add to whatever is mentioned. Here are the current possibilities.

  • As previously mentioned the Blue Jackets are interested in him and it is not certain what they are offering at this point.
  • The Dallas Stars jumped in this morning offering backup goalie Mike Smith. Smith has looked very good of late and has been solid all year as Marty Turco’s backup. Yahoo Sports is reporting that C Jeff Halpern and D Mark Fistric could be involved also.

As I said we will update this post all day as rumors ar floated so keep checking back.