The Athletic asked its NHL writers to name one player from each and every one of the NHL’s 32 teams who are expected to be traded before the end of the 2021-2022 campaign, and Max Bultman picked Nick Leddy as the Red Wings’ resident “trade bait” candidate:
Leddy will serve a valuable role as a mentor to Detroit’s young defensemen and likely QB the top power play, but come the trade deadline, I expect Detroit will look to recoup some of the draft capital it gave up to acquire him this past summer. -Max Bultman
Continued (paywall); I think that any of the Red Wings’ UFA’s-to-be might serve as trade bait come the deadline, so Robby Fabbri, Vladislav Namestnikov, Sam Gagner, Danny DeKeyser, Marc Staal, Troy Stecher and Thomas Greiss are all potential trade candidates at some point…
I just don’t know whether we’ll find out that Leddy is more valuable to the Wings as a mentor for Seider than he is as a chess piece.
