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The NHLs Mar. 2 Trade Deadline is approaching and teams are making decisions on whether to buy, sell and decide which players can make the biggest difference and hold the greatest value. Check out todays trade rumours and speculation from around the NHL beat. And follow TradeCentre on TSN and TSN.ca through Deadline Day for all the updates. Veterans Affairs The Ottawa Senators exit the All-Star break 10th in the Eastern Conference, 10 points out of the wild card chase. Should the team fail to gain ground in the coming weeks, GM Bryan Murray has told The Ottawa Citizen that he is open to the possibility of trading some veteran players. The Sens have the likes of Chris Neil, David Legwand and Chris Phillips to dangle, and all have term left on their contract, offering control to anyone not looking for a strictly-rental addition. Neil - a lifetime Senator - isnt letting the talk distract him. “I haven’t really thought about anything, to be honest,” Neil told The Citizen. “I haven’t talked to Bryan... This is home for me, regardless of what happens. It’s the place, after I’m done playing, that I’ll call home, for sure.” Call Me, Maybe? Jaromir Jagr is once again advising that teams wishing to acquire him before the deadline to at least run it by him first. Speaking to Fire and Ice, the 42-year-old stressed that he would like time to think about any move before a deal is officially swung. This is not the first time Jagr has made this preference known, making the same request at the 2013 deadline. Then a member of the Dallas Stars, he was flipped to the Boston Bruins for a playoff run before his one-year contract was set to expire. The Bruins went all the way to the Cup Final that year, but Jagr was held goalless, notching 10 assists in 22 playoff games. If anybody wants to bring somebody in, they want to make sure that he wants to go even if you dont have control, Jagr told Fire and Ice. At least, they did it when I went to Boston. They gave me time to think about it. But, I didnt want to leave Dallas either. I was happy there.” Now in the final year of a two-year pact he signed with the Devils, Jagr sits on nine goals through 43 games as the second half of the season begins. Strange Bru With the Bruins heating up before the break and taking hold of the final playoff spot in the East, they could be players at the deadline. CSN New Englands Joe Haggerty floated some possible trade ideas in his weekly mail bag, including what he thinks itd take for the Bruins to land Keith Yandle and where they could be looking to add a veteran winger. Haggerty supports the Bs going all-out for Yandle, floating a package of Loui Eriksson, Matt Bartkowski and Ryan Spooner to get the deal done. Meanwhile, on the wing he suggests reaching into the past for help in the form of either Jagr or Michael Ryder. Alternately, he suggests turning to the Buffalo Sabres to see what the cost of Chris Stewart or Drew Stafford might be. Andrew Robertson Jersey . Altidore strained his left hamstring in the Americans opener against Ghana on June 16 and didnt play in their next two games. "We dont know how much because we need to see how hes going, but hes available," U. Virgil van Dijk Liverpool Jersey . "I met her, I think, a week ago. We went to a Norwood hockey store and picked her out some gear. http://www.soccerliverpoolproshop.com/c-37-ben-woodburn-liverpool-fc-jersey.aspx . There are some early surprises in the race for the Hart Trophy, but two of the contenders are the leagues biggest stars over the past decade. There are many more players in contention for the awards than just the three that Ive named, and a good or bad week can easily alter the landscape, but through the first 20 or so games of the NHL season, this is how the awards races look to me. Loris Karius Liverpool Jersey .com) - Matt Duchene picked up the deciding goal early in the third period and added an assist, as Colorado escaped with a 4-3 victory over Dallas at Pepsi Center. Trent Alexander-Arnold Liverpool Jersey .Y. - The Buffalo Sabres reassigned forward Sam Reinhart to the WHLs Kootenay Ice on Friday.On Boxing Day, the pursuit of Masahiro Tanaka finally begins. The 25-year-old Japanese star has officially been posted by his club team, the Rakuten Golden Eagles. So for the new capped fee of $20 million, any one of the 30 Major League teams can get in on the bidding and getting a deal done by 5pm on January 24. Tanaka was a spectacular 24-0 this season with a miniscule 1.27 ERA. He is the same age Yu Darvish was when he was posted two years ago and, like Darvish, wants the challenge of pitching in the Majors. The Blue Jays were in on the chase for Darvish, but to what extent we will never really know. There were rumblings at the time that the Blue Jays barely lost out to Texas and their winning bid of $51.7 million. But Alex Anthopoulos and the organization would never confirm or deny that and in the end, it was felt the Rangers were actually bidding against themselves just to be sure they got Darvish. Texas signed him to a six-year, $60 million deal but if certain conditions are met, the sixth year turns into a player option. So far its been a good investment by Texas. Darvish is 29-18 over two seasons with 401 innings, 498 strikeouts and 169 walks. He was added the American League All-Star roster his first year, and only missed last years mid-summer classic due to an injury. Most scouts believe Darvish to be a better pitcher than Tanaka, who projects by many to be a number 2 or 3 starter, rather than a staff ace. When Tanaka won the Sawamura Award as top pitcher in Japan in 2011, over Darvish, he conceded that although he had slightly better numbers than Darvish in a couple of categories, he said "as a pitcher, Im nowhere near his calibre". The Blue Jays self-imposed five-year limit on contracts is one thing working against them, although Anthopoulos conceded a couple of weeks ago that the Jays might go to six years for the right player. The biggest thing going against the Jays is the desperation of some of those big-name teams that figure to be in on the bidding and the marquee presence of others. The Yankees pitching staff needs an infussion of youth and talent. The Dodgers havent won a World Series since 1988 and Texas has never won one. Boston is in that year-by-year battle for bragging rights and now that theyve won three World Series titles this century to the Yankees two, they arent going to let up now.dddddddddddd The Blue Jays may make an offer just to say they did, but Id bet on Texas or the Yankees to be Tanakas ultimate landing spot. A couple of trivia points on Darvish. The first Major League hit he surrendered was to his countryman Ichiro Suzuki and the first home run he surrendered was to Edwin Encarnacion of the Blue Jays on April 30, 2012. Darvish still won that game though, 4-1. Another Babe It was on December 26 of 1919 when the most infamous deal in Red Sox history went down. It was the day Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees. This is the story of another player who went by the nickname "Babe". Werner Birrer was a reliever and occassional spot starter for parts of three seasons in the 1950s with the Tigers, Orioles and Dodgers. Hes better known for his years pitching in the International League, in Buffalo, the city where he was born. He ultimately made it into the Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame and was a valued member of the community as a teacher and a coach. Babe Birrer passed away back in November at age 85. He had one day in his career where it all came together and earned him the sobriquet "Babe". On July 19 of 1955, Birrer came on in relief in the sixth inning to try and protect a 5-4 Tigers lead over Baltimore. Not only did he pitch four shutout innings of relief to earn his second of four career saves, Birrer slugged a pair of three-run homers to propel the Tigers to a 12-4 victory over the 0s. What was so special about that? Well, those were the only two home runs and only six runs batted inn of Birrers entire career. As far as anyone knows, he is the only Major League player in history to cram all of his home runs and RBI production into just one game. For that one day, that one game, Werner Birrer was called "Babe" by his teammates for the rest of his career. Oddly enough, the two relievers who surrendered those home runs to Birrer, George Zuverink and Art Shallock, are both still alive and amongst the 100 oldest surviving Major Leaguers. Shallock is 89 and 245 days, Zuverink 89 and 128 days. Just a little known page in the book of Tigers history. ' ' '