Five potential trade destinations for Predators' Steven Stamkos

Nashville Predators reportedly willing to listen to trade offers for veteran forwards Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault

The Nashville Predators are one of the hottest topics in the NHL, as their league-worst 7-12-4 start to the 2025-26 season has sparked reports about a reported toxic team environment and a potential sell-off of some of their top names. Now, TSN’s Darren Dreger is reporting on an episode of Insider Trading that two specific veterans, Steven Stamkos and Jonathan Marchessault, are being put on the trade market. “Historically, you get to US Thanksgi…

Five potential trade destinations for Predators' Steven Stamkos

Before we contemplate where Steven Stamkos might go next, let’s just take a moment to remember where this guy has been. From the second Stamkos stepped on the ice for his sophomore NHL season, he became the best goal-scorer on Earth for, more or less, a five-year period. Between the start of the 2009-10 campaign through Nov. 11, 2013, Stamkos scored a league-high 199 goals in 311 contests. That’s 34 more goals than the second-place person in tha…