The NHL season largely navigates around a handful of key dates — most notably the trading deadline — each of which affect the likelihood of teams completing a trade. But irrespective of important factors such as salary proration, how close a club is to its 50-contract ceiling, and cap room, for general managers, the right moment to make a trade is the moment someone makes you an offer you like.
As my colleague, Joe Fortunato recently wrote, that moment can come at any time for the New York Rangers, since things can’t get much worse than they already are.