If you were looking forward to this off-season for all the big trades and offer sheets that were supposed to go down, you’ve been sorely disappointed. We haven’t seen a single offer sheet and there was only one trade between mid-July and Sept. 4, when the Colorado Avalanche acquired Danil Gushchin from the San Jose Sharks in exchange for Oskar Olausson. Not exactly a blockbuster. It’s been a very quiet summer, even for typical NHL off-season standards.

There was a belief that with a rising cap, a thin free agent class, and so many teams with holes in their lineups, there would be a bevy of transactions throughout the summer. So, why didn’t it happen? Part of the reason could simply be that there really aren’t that many true sellers right now. The majority of teams at the bottom of the sta

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