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Coyotes Strongly Rumored to be Trading for Taylor Hall

December 14, 2019, 5:49 AM ET [71 Comments]
James Tanner
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Taylor Hall was kept out of last night's Colorado / New Jersey game as a precaution ahead of getting traded.

The Coyotes have been rumored for weeks to be interested in acquiring the 28 year old former #1 pick.




John Shannon tweeted that the Coyotes are strong favorites, and someone else who has told me interesting and accurate things in the past has been sending me cryptic messages.

I think it's really gonna happen. And this seems reasonable because the Devils have a lot of great pieces to build around, but no goalie. The Coyotes can likely add something no one else can add - a starting goalie.

I imagine the Coyotes - if they are to acquire Taylor Hall - would trade Antti Raanta, a prospect, most likely a defenseman like Kevin Bahl, and a first rounder, maybe also a second.

Bahl is a second rounder from 2018 who has 20 points in 25 OHL games this year. He is becoming really highly touted.

Maybe it's optimistic of me to think the Coyotes would only have to give up Bahl and not Victor Soderstrom, or that they'd be able to do this while holding on to both him and Hayton, but Based on trades for Erik Karlsson and Mark Stone that seems about right.

It'd be hard to see anyone being able to top that.

Grabner would probably have to be included to make the salary work this year and next year when the Coyotes are also pretty much maxed out.

And I'm assuming they'd only do this if they could re-sign Taylor Hall, who would likely become instantly the best player in franchise history.

Suddenly a pretty punchless Coyotes team would have added Schmaltz, Kessel and Taylor Hall in less than a year. That's impressive.

It would also solidify the ascendance of Darcy Kuemper who still isn't getting enough credit for being arguably the best goalie in the NHL for over a year now.

While Hall has only six goals in 30 games this season, it should be pointed out that he has a 4% shooting percentage, and that posting 25 points in 30 games with an on-ice shooting percentage under 8% is actually pretty good.

Today could end up being the biggest day in Coyotes franchise history.
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