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The NHL's Standoff Board
Midnight is the trade deadline: Monday, March 1, 2027, 3:00 p.m. ET. Every star below has a contract standoff, a trade request or a suspension running. The clock doesn't care who blinks first.
Trade deadline countdownMon Mar 1 2027 · 3:00 PM ET
The Board
Sorted by whoever's closest to the cliff. Stats refresh when someone runs the update script, so they're as fresh as the last refresh.
More Channels
One grievance per page, each with its own live number. Same rules: public reporting, NHL stats, estimates labelled.
Standoffs
- CH 01Hughes ClockQuinn's trade value, melting game by game.
- CH 02Who Won The Hughes Trade?Hughes vs. Rossi, Buium and Öhgren. Tale of the tape.
- CH 03Hughes Bros. Inc.Quinn, Jack and Luke, traded as one stock.
- CH 04Kuch QuitsThe gap between his ask and Tampa's offer.
- CH 05Days Detroit WastedA timecard for every unpaid day.
- CH 06Edvinsson DeadlineSign by Dec 1 or sit out the season.
- CH 07Karlsson Countdown$10M cap hit, burning off by the second.
- CH 08Dubas's Garage SalePittsburgh's veterans, tagged and on the table.
- CH 09Pettersson PaidWhat every point costs on a last-place team.
- CH 10Free MiroOne tally mark for every game he sits.
- CH 11The Forfeit LedgerEvery dollar lost to suspensions this season.
Hot seats
- CH 12How Hot Is Blashill's Seat?A chair on the burner, cooked by Chicago's record.
- CH 13Flyers Hot SeatThermometers for Tocchet and three wingers.
- CH 14Life Without IgorThe Rangers since Shesterkin went down.
- CH 15Fallen ContendersLast spring's playoff teams, now underwater.
Races & records
How it's calculated
Back-of-a-napkin math, shown in full so you can yell at it.
- The doomsday clock runs from opening night (Sep 29, 2026) to the deadline. The hand sweeps from the left edge to midnight as the season burns down. It shows progress, not a time.
- Larkin's forfeited salary: $8,000,000 ÷ 194 regular-season days = $41,237 a day, counted per second since Oct 29, 2026 at midnight ET. The real number depends on how the league counts days. Treat it as an estimate.
- Karlsson's salary left: $10,000,000 minus $10M ÷ 194 for every day since opening night, Sep 29, 2026. Cap hit and salary aren't always the same thing. Estimate.
- Rental value left: 84 minus the team's games played, from the NHL standings feed. Each block is two games. Only for players on expiring deals.
- Edvinsson's clock counts to the start of Dec 1, 2026 ET, the date he has to sign by to play this season.
- Hughes's clock counts up from Jul 1, 2026, the first day he could sign an extension. No extension yet, so it keeps going.
- Frost's clock counts down to the NHL trade deadline (Mar 1, 2027 at 3 p.m. ET). That's when Calgary has to trade him or keep him.
- Voronkov's clock counts down to Jul 1, 2027 at noon ET, when his current deal runs out and he can sign anywhere.
- Kucherov's gap: he reportedly wants ~$20M a year, Tampa reportedly offered $15M. That's $5M a year apart, before you even get to term (6 years vs. 4).
- The Edge row (top speed, hardest shot, distance skated) comes from the NHL Edge puck-and-player tracking feed. Each card uses the player's latest season with Edge data, labelled under the row. Edvinsson hasn't played this season, so his numbers are a full 2025-26 season and his distance total isn't comparable to everyone else's partial-season numbers. Percentiles are the NHL's own ranking against all skaters.
- Doom level is pure vibes, assigned by us. One siren means mild concern. Five means someone's GM is not sleeping.