A Buyers’ Market and Nobody Wants to Blink

32 Thoughts: The Podcast

Sportsnet

Sports, Hockey

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2026

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Kyle and Elliotte break down a buyers’ market developing ahead of the trade deadline, with sellers cautious and asking prices high across the league. They examine trade chatter involving Buffalo, Vancouver, St. Louis, Calgary, Seattle’s aggressive pursuit of Panarin, and multiple teams weighing key roster decisions. The episode wraps with a Final Thought directed at the U.S. women’s hockey team.

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0:00.0	Hey, Minnesota's got their own fluid game now.
0:03.6	Oh, can you imagine?
0:04.9	Oh, there's like frozen vomit in the crease and you've got to go down and try to make a save in it.
0:11.6	Oh, so when I was eight years old.
0:14.8	Oh, I can only imagine where this story is going.
0:17.2	Good.
0:17.4	I can't wait to hear this.
0:20.4	Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast presented presented by the Toyota BZ, go all electric and a winter
0:25.9	ready Toyota BZ at your local dealer today. Dom, Elliot, and Kyle back with you again.
0:31.4	Fridge, we are back. We're back home. We're on North American soil. You're back in the
0:36.3	eastern time zone. Mountain time zone for me. Dom remains on North American soil. You're back in the eastern time zone.
0:43.9	Mountain time zone for me. Dom remains out in the Pacific time zone. In a lot of ways,
0:50.7	this week has felt almost as or more exhausting than the two and a half weeks. We were over in Milan for the Winter Olympics.
0:54.8	We are one week away from the trade deadline.
0:58.6	How are you adjusting?
1:00.5	The travel home Monday, NHL returning Wednesday, and the news picking up.
1:07.7	I was great until the schedule resumed, Kyle.
1:11.6	Wouldn't allow myself to go to sleep Monday night, my travel home day until 9 p.m.
1:17.1	Good night's sleep, woke up once or twice, got back to bed.
1:22.3	Wednesday, sorry, Tuesday, did not allow myself to go back to bed until 10 o'clock, slept all the way through the night, nine hours, fantastic.
1:32.5	I felt great.
1:33.8	I was like, adjusted myself right away.
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