NHL trade deadline is 5 days out, Officiating needs to be overhauled in the NHL and Analytics are an acquired taste in hockey

Rob Pizzo, Sara Civian and Jesse Granger discuss the trades that Colorado made the past few days, in acquiring Josh Manson and Nico Sturm and how those deals might open the floodgates for the struggling Vegas Golden Knights, the metro leading Carolina Hurricanes, the Pacific leading Calgary Flames, the forever frustrating Toronto Maple Leafs and the NHL best Avs who aren't done yet dealing. Plus we look at Jack Eichel's salty return to Buffalo, Auston Matthews two game suspension for cross checking in the Heritage Classic and Nick Foligno becoming the tenth player this season to hit the 1000 game mark.

The roundtable welcomes The Athletic's numbers man Dominik Luszczyszyn to discuss Jonathan Huberdeau's season in Florida and if it is indeed MVP worthy. We wonder, why the use of analytics still isn't widely accepted by hockey fans, and what trades Dom could see happening leading up the deadline including where Timo Meier, Claude Giroux and Marc-Andre Fleury might end up.

Finally, in our twitter segment, we debate how to fix NHL officiating which has taken center stage again, and not in a good way, for the NHL.

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