The Nashville Predators have traded centerman Cody Glass to the Pittsburgh Penguins, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. The Penguins have confirmed the deal, sharing that they’ve acquired Glass, a 2025 third-round pick, and a 2026 sixth-round pick in exchange for minor-league forward Jordan Frasca.
Glass was the sixth-overall pick in the 2017 NHL Draft, and the first draft pick for the Vegas Golden Knights franchise, though injuries have kept him from making too much of a big-league impact just yet. Glass scored 22 points in 66 games across two seasons with Vegas, filling a menial role and never doing much to reap the opportunity given to him. The lagging opportunity sparked a 2021 trade to the Nashville Predators, who were much more willing to give Glass a commendable role in the lineup. He vindicated that recognition with 14 goals and 35 points in 72 games during the 2022-23 season. That scoring pace carried into this past season, though one upper-body injury and one lower-body injury were enough to limit Glass to just 13 points and 41 games.
Nashville has quickly filled most of their notable roles on offense with summer additions of Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault – and the emergence of depth pieces like Thomas Novak. That’s left Glass on the outside looking in, and now catalysts a move to the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he’ll be one of just three forwards under the age of 26. Glass might not get much more lineup certainty with the Penguins, who also added Kevin Hayes and Blake Lizotte this summer. The crowd created by those additions could inspire Pittsburgh to instead deploy Glass at right-wing, where their depth is shallow behind Bryan Rust. That change would put Glass in a much more manageable competition with Jesse Puljujarvi, Rickard Rakell, and Valtteri Puustinen. Winning that position battle could land Glass a lucrative spot next to Evgeni Malkin – potentially enough to revitalize his former offensive prowess, or so Pittsburgh will hope.
Meanwhile, Frasca will join the Predators organization as minor-league depth. He earned a promotion to the AHL after scoring 33 points in 40 ECHL games last season, though he’s still without a point through 11 career AHL games. Pittsburgh signed Frasca as an undrafted free-agent in 2022, inking him to a three-year, $2.8MM entry-level deal set to expire after next season.
Another needle moving trade by Dubas.
If the goal was to accumulate as many 4th line or fringe NHL players as possible the Pens would be contenders
It’s hard to do anything earth shattering when the team is bad and they don’t want to give up what young assets they do have. You just have to roll with it and hope for positive regression.
It’s good for Glass. The perfect team for him to get some time and possibly his last chance to be a quality NHL player.
Seems like a precursor for another trade. Penguins now have an excess of Centers.
Unless the plan is to use Glass at RW, but even then that would push Acciari to a bench role (pretty expensive for a 13th forward). Seems like this is a backfill for bigger trade that’s going to include Rakell and/or Eller.
Would love to see Rakell moved. Them signing him to that deal was a poor move
I’ll gladly take Rakell in Vegas at a reduced price.
Draft picks are just the price of doing business for obtaining Cap space in today’s NHL. If you make a bad signing for way longer than you will get value for the longer the deal the higher the draft picks will be. It’s the way business is being done in the NHL. This was an expensive move for 2.5 million in Cap space for 1 year. But it would seem Pittsburgh figured it could use Glass somehow. Otherwise it doesn’t compute because now Pitt is capped out basically. One would have to assume there is another move coming that was planned out ahead of time. I would hope if I was a Pens fan.
Penguins still have between $1.5 and $2 million in cap space once Nieto goes on LTIR. Plus, it’s no secret they want to make additional trades (Jarry, Eller, Rakell are all possible).
No way he gets moved and they shouldn’t. He was hurt last year and should be worth his contract this year. No point in selling low
I know Glass is a bust relative to his draft position, but I didn’t think his value was that low. Nashville had to give up two additional picks to acquire an undrafted minor leaguer?
Nashville went from 600K to 3.1M in cap space, and Pittsburgh from 2.75M to 250K. Perhaps they both have another move in the works requiring the cap space to be configured this way.
Every team needs( Or should I say should have) at least 3 million in Cap space heading into a season. Otherwise it makes even calling up a guy from the AHL an exercise in shuffling money around. You see it every year in the months after the deadline. The Preds got theirs, Now let’s see what Dubas does to get his. He must have something else in mind and it probably means off loading a salary of his own so he needed more picks. To the people bashing Dubas I would say I would take Dubas every day of the year over Stan ” The Sham” Bowman. So every time you want to do that just say, It could be worse. We could be Edmonton.
Penguins have between $1.5 and $2 million in cap space when you factor in LTIR for Nieto. The variance depends on who makes the team and who goes down (they have too many active players right now).
Anyone watching Malkin would know he’s not going to help revitalize someone’s career at this point
Did they want the 3rd round pick and figured they’d decide what to do with Glass later?
Or was the talk of Yager and the young guys getting real chances in camp lip service?
Is Glass a PP specialist? We do have a need for a right shot on PP1.
I doubt they were in that much need of a 3rd after that trade with St. Louis
Glass is only 24. I’d say he’s a young guy getting a chance
That might be it. Dubas has to rebuild draft picks, and should be prioritizing that over chasing a playoff spot. Smart if so.
Cody Glass seemed promising when he came to our Predators, but he’s fringe at best. The trade was a cap reliever for the Predators. I really don’t get why you guys got him. He would have maybe fit better in San Jose.
Hey Predfan
Who’s your #2 center next year? Is Novak in the top 6? Evangelista? What’s your thoughts?
Stamkos can still play center if they want to do that (my preferred option).
You got it. Novak is the cross-your-fingers plan for top six. Probably the biggest question mark on the Predator team this season.
Watch Evangelusta. He won’t go Hall of Fame, but he will still be playing in ten years.
People slamming Dubas like he’s doing this awful job. Since coming in he’s added draft picks and acquired younger talent for guys who wouldn’t be on the team (Jake) next year.
It’s very clear what he is doing and that is setting the team up to be a fringe competitor this year for a late playoff spot while maintaining the option for a short term retool the following year OR if Sullivan fails (like I think he will) he can set up for a long term rebuild leveraging the draft capital he has acquired so far.
We’ve been spoiled enough to be one of the best producing teams in hockey for a very long time. Patience is now required for the next chapter.
Trotz cleans up another bad move by Poile. Hate to lose that 3rd round pick, but it had to be done.