The trade deadline, despite its name, is not exactly a full stop for NHL transactions. Players can still be dealt after it passes, but are then deemed ineligible for the rest of the regular season and playoffs. Ineligible, that is, at the NHL level.
Almost every year, there is a deal or two that comes in after the deadline that includes minor league players swapping clubs. This time, it’s the Detroit Red Wings and Arizona Coyotes hooking up on a trade that will see Steven Kampfer join the Tucson Roadrunners in exchange for future considerations.
Kampfer, 36, is no longer eligible to play for the Coyotes this season but can help the Roadrunners down the stretch, and potentially discuss an extension with Arizona. The veteran defenseman is a well-respected pro who started his career with the Boston Bruins in 2010, and wore an “A” for the U.S. at the 2022 Olympics.
Despite being just 24-26-6 on the year, Tucson is actually in a playoff position in the Pacific Division. That spot is only a hair ahead of the teams chasing them, though, meaning Kampfer’s help will be much appreciated over the next 16 games.
Grand Rapids, on the other hand, is likely going to miss the postseason, unless they can orchestrate an incredible turnaround over the last part of the season. They sit last in the Central, 11 points behind the Iowa Wild for the final playoff spot.
I wonder how Future Considerations is taking all these moves, he has to move his family every other week because no team can afford him, these teams don’t take his lifestyle into Consideration
Future Considerations really came through for the Coyotes when that’s all they had to give the Flyers for two great years of Shayne Gostisbehere and a couple future draft choices.
Does he have a career ending injury or something? LOL. If not, he doesn’t fit the Coyotes profile.
(cheers) Hah, I may be the only person around who remembers when Kampfer wore the “C” for the Bruins.
(As it happens, it was in a rookie match at the Garden in training camp 2010.)
wow lol, learn something new everyday