What can the Oilers trade; Onus of Nylander deal on Shanahan and Lamoriello too; Flames have no choice but to be patient with Mike Smith; Are the Canucks recent first rounders trending up or down; Dylan Larkin blossoming into a star in Detroit; ; and more in this week’s Nation Roundup brought to you by Dailyfaceoff.
In the Roundup, we go around the Nation Network and give you some of the best articles of the last couple weeks. Every once in a while it’s good to know what other teams are doing, or maybe you find an interesting article you wouldn’t have found otherwise.
LEAFS
Onus of Nylander deal on Shanahan and Lamoriello too (ThatsKappy)
Why do the Leafs only have 12 forwards on the California trip (Thomas Williams)
CANUCKS
In shape: Ben Hutton 2.0 (Darryl Keeping)
Are the Canucks most recent first rounders trending up or down (Stephan Roget)
RED WINGS
Dylan Larkin blossoming into a star (Cameron Kuom)
Wings should trade for Daniel Sprong (Cameron Kuom)
FLAMES
Flames have little choice but to be patient with Mike Smith (Steve Macfarlane)
How do you get James Neal going? (Ari Yanover)
Now what? Calgary votes no on Olympics (Ryan Pike)
Travis Hamonic is off to the best start of his career (Pat Steinberg)
Tkachuk should be first Flame to break the “Giordano Cap” (Christian Tiberi)
Tkachuk making case to be Flames best player (Ari Yanover)
OILERS
Can the Oilers afford to trade a prospect? (Tyler Yaremchuk)
Do the Oilers have a plan between the pipes? (Dustin Nielson)
Lucic has cratered 5 on 5 in Edmonton (Christian Pagnani)
Nation Donair Tour: Bingo donair (Chris the Intern)
Hockeyfights.com – Scrap of the week
More from around the Network:
Trade: Pens send Hagelin to LA for Tanner Pearson (Dylan Berthiaume)
I promised the Habs would suck, what happened? (Ryan Hobart)
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