{"id":483857,"date":"2026-03-04T01:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/483857\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T01:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T01:27:13","slug":"breaking-trade-michael-mccarron-heads-to-central-division-rival-for-playoff-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/483857\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking Trade: Michael McCarron Heads To Central Division Rival For Playoff Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/img\/b\/R29vZ2xl\/AVvXsEgUwSHiES6SkjjN5GyT1WWteiB1l9G_90KPXRWSF9JiNwfbCI9sg36Qlxn9V-ga66lLHNChk5eFn1pV8KaQ6aOiLQOSAEYyht6aLWzPShcABHn-MT-pGAKanhqYoWv2pIsg7n_iDgShVxHevAOQq2HZqCKpBJ0WYQCPsMg3Ja-idS_IIstTyqx0Q3CYhLxq\/s3306\/USATSI_22986969.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Nashville Predators forward Michael McCarron\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"2204\" data-original-width=\"3306\" height=\"266\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/USATSI_22986969.jpg\" title=\"Nashville Predators forward Michael McCarron\" width=\"400\"\/><\/a><br \/>\u00a0Michael McCarron is one of the biggest names (as in, 6-foot-6, 232 pounds) available this week for teams looking for a massive, rugged presence in their bottom-six heading into the playoffs. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhltraderumors.me\/search\/label\/Nashville%20Predators\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nashville Predators<\/a>\u00a0pulled the pending UFA from their lineup Tuesday night, and we learned shortly after that he has been traded to the Minnesota Wild.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TRADE ALERT: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MNWild?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#MNWild<\/a> acquire Michael McCarron from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Preds?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Preds<\/a> for 2028 2nd round pick, per <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RussoHockey?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@RussoHockey<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NHL News (@PuckReportNHL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PuckReportNHL\/status\/2028983823191470306?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A second round pick in 2028 goes to the Preds.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 31-year-old is wrapping up a two-year, $900,000 AAV deal this season in Nashville, and will be an ideal physical presence for the Wild as they will be in for a tough battle to get out of the Central Division once the playoffs start.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes just one day after Minnesota also added Robby Fabbri to their fourth line, with a waiver claim.<\/p>\n<p>McCarron has\u00a0five goals and 12 points this season in 59 games, along with\u00a0165 hits, while\u00a0averaging a career-high 14:30 of ice time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hulking center will be reunited with\u00a0Wild coach John Hynes, who were together in Nashville from 2020 through the end of the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a good addition for the Wild, as they add some edge and toughness for the postseason.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Photo: \u00a9 Christopher Hanewinckel-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0Michael McCarron is one of the biggest names (as in, 6-foot-6, 232 pounds) available this week for teams&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[463,464],"tags":[5,181,4,465,550,106,60,107,549,548,546,547,14,104,718],"class_list":{"0":"post-483857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl-playoffs","8":"category-stanley-cup-playoffs","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-hockey-news","11":"tag-nhl","12":"tag-nhl-draft","13":"tag-nhl-free-agency","14":"tag-nhl-news","15":"tag-nhl-playoffs","16":"tag-nhl-rumors","17":"tag-nhl-teams","18":"tag-nhl-trade-deadline","19":"tag-nhl-trade-rumors","20":"tag-nhl-trades","21":"tag-stanley-cup","22":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs","23":"tag-stanley-cup-playoffs-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116168311040902157","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483857","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=483857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}