{"id":475611,"date":"2026-02-27T19:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/475611\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T19:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T19:17:17","slug":"ryan-oreillys-trade-deadline-priority-as-avalanche-stars-wild-lurk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/475611\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s trade deadline &#8216;priority&#8217; as Avalanche, Stars, Wild lurk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/vancouver-canucks\/nhl-rumors-canucks-tyler-myers-considering-trade-red-wings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the trade deadline approaching<\/a>, there are many teams looking to find that key player who can help improve their squad for the remainder of the season. One of those players who have been <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/nashville-predators\/nhl-rumors-predators-listening-trade-calls-conn-smythe-winner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mentioned in trade talks is Ryan O&#8217;Reilly<\/a> from the Nashville Predators. Though teams may be interested in him, it&#8217;s uncertain if he would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/7074080\/2026\/02\/26\/nhl-trade-deadline-stamkos-oreilly-kadri\/?source=emp_shared_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">want to be traded<\/a>, according to Pierre LeBrun of The Athletic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRyan O\u2019Reilly, meanwhile, is signed to another year at a $4.5 million cap hit and continues to be in high demand,<br \/>LeBrun wrote. \u201cIt\u2019s still not clear, though, if he would want to move. League sources Thursday said his priority coming out of the break is helping get the Predators into the playoffs. His family loves it in Nashville. There\u2019s even been talk of a potential extension for him this summer. He is eligible for one on July 1 and is thought of well at the ownership level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three teams that have interest is the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/colorado-avalanche\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/dallas-stars\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/clutchpoints.com\/nhl\/minnesota-wild\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think we can totally discount a trade, though. You can count the Colorado Avalanche, the Stars and the Wild as teams with interest in the 35-year-old center,\u201d LeBrun wrote. \u201cO\u2019Reilly doesn\u2019t have a no-trade clause, but at the time of his signing, there was a verbal understanding with GM Barry Trotz that he would bring any trade scenario to O\u2019Reilly and agent Pat Morris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Predators are currently 27-24 and fifth in the Central Division, and if they want to make a playoff push, keeping O&#8217;Reilly might be the best option for them.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, if Trotz wants a way to get assets, he doesn&#8217;t seem shy of making the move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the trade deadline approaching, there are many teams looking to find that key player who can help&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5117],"tags":[144,196,147,5278,5,38,4,107,4303,197],"class_list":{"0":"post-475611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas-stars","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-dallas","10":"tag-dallas-stars","11":"tag-dallasstars","12":"tag-hockey","13":"tag-minnesota-wild","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-nhl-rumors","16":"tag-nhl-stories","17":"tag-stars"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116144206239200349","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475611","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=475611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}