{"id":451008,"date":"2026-02-08T05:23:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/451008\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:23:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:23:28","slug":"surprise-team-now-added-to-list-of-nazem-kadri-suitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/451008\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise Team Now Added to List of Nazem Kadri Suitors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Calgary<\/a><\/p>\n

Nazem Kadri isn’t the only valued center on the trade market these days, cooling trade talk a bit latey<\/a>. But that doesn’t mean teams aren’t still trying to acquire the gritty, intense, playoff-ready center.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With teams like his former club, the Colorado Avalanche, along with the Dallas Stars, the Carolina Hurricanes, and Montreal Canadiens being some of the more talked-about suitors for the Calgary Flames’ veteran, there’s a new surprise team revealed that’s got Kadri on its radar as well. Elliotte Friedman tells us<\/a> in his 32 Thoughts column that the Utah Mammoth have “checked in, and no doubt this will pick up.”<\/p>\n

Why Nazem Kadri is a great trade target for the Utah Mammoth<\/p>\n

The Mammoth have a top-nine, or better yet, top-six need on their forward corps, as the team is only middle of the pack in goals-per-game, at 14th in the league. A ten-goal outburst over their last two games heading to the Olympic break doesn’t change this need.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They’re also dead-last in the NHL in power play goals, and second from the bottom in power play percentage.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old Kadri would bring his offensive skills, his competitiveness and leadership abilities to a franchise that’s looking to make its first push into the playoffs in Utah. They currently hold the first Wild Card spot in the Western Conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n

His extensive playoff experience would also be a huge boost to a young forward group that simply doesn’t have any up front.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kadri was a key driver of the Avalanche’s Stanley Cup run in 2022, and overall, he has 30 goals in 82 career playoff games, with a +24 rating. He’d be a transformative player for a Mammoth team that really wants to make some postseason noise.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Photo: \u00a9 Sergei Belski-Imagn Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nazem Kadri isn’t the only valued center on the trade market these days, cooling trade talk a bit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5124],"tags":[895,26,5294,896,5,181,4,465,550,106,60,107,549,548,546,547],"class_list":{"0":"post-451008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-calgary-flames","8":"tag-calgary","9":"tag-calgary-flames","10":"tag-calgaryflames","11":"tag-flames","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-hockey-news","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-draft","16":"tag-nhl-free-agency","17":"tag-nhl-news","18":"tag-nhl-playoffs","19":"tag-nhl-rumors","20":"tag-nhl-teams","21":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","22":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","23":"tag-nhl-trades"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116033343623942064","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}