NEWSLETTER
Ryan Carpenter appears to be the next domino to fall in the Chicago Blackhawks sell-off ahead of the NHL trade deadline. Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times is reporting this afternoon that the Blackhawks and Predators are getting close on a deal for Carpenter.
https://twitter.com/BenPopeCST/status/1505962805983330305?s=20&t=AQpbti7_S2g4OSl7iZxn_g
Carpenter will provide the Predators with a solid fourth-line centerman or a depth forward. Carpenter has 11 points (three goals, eight assists) in 59 games for the Blackhawks this season.
The Blackhawks traded Brandon Hagel to the Tampa Bay Lightning on Friday, acquiring Taylor Raddysh, Boris Katchouk, and a pair of first-rounders in 2023 and 2024. Davidson also landed a conditional 2022 second-rounder earlier today when he traded Marc-André Fleury to the Minnesota Wild. More soon as details emerge.
UPDATE: Ben Pope said that he might have jumped the gun on his report that Ryan Carpenter is close to being traded to the Nashville Predators. Pope is now retracting his report and pumping the brakes on Carpenter to Nashville.
I'm going to retract my earlier tweet about the Blackhawks and Predators nearing a Ryan Carpenter trade. It's not impossible, but it sounds like I jumped the gun. Put me on the Eklund tier of legitimacy until further notice.
— Ben Pope (@BenPopeCST) March 21, 2022
UPDATE: Ryan Carpenter has been traded to the Calgary Flames for a fifth-round pick in 2024:
REPORT: Ryan Carpenter Is Being Traded to the Calgary Flameshttps://t.co/WGqd8aONiF pic.twitter.com/0sfMHgmkB8
— Bleacher Nation Blackhawks (@BN_Blackhawks) March 21, 2022
