from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

There's potential for total chaos from mid-June through July 1 as teams navigate the expansion draft and deal with another flat salary cap, and the moves that itself forces.

Here's a look at some of the most intriguing potential trades that await after the season:

An Avalanche of deals It's no real surprise that neither player Matt Duchene nor Gabriel Landeskog moved before the deadline. "[Colorado Avalanche GM] Joe [Sakic] will get more teams involved after the season,'' noted an Eastern Conference team executive on Thursday....

Ducks' blueline Anaheim Ducks GM Bob Murray is like the kid in the schoolyard with all the toys who won't share. He's going to have to after the season. The expansion draft won't allow him to keep all of his coveted blueliners. A few things are at play here. First, the Ducks need to convince veteran Kevin Bieksa to waive his no-move clause for purposes of expansion-draft exposure. My guess is that won't be a problem, but we'll see....

Tampa's D-man search The Lightning will make it a top priority this offseason to try to trade for a top-four defenseman. It will cost them, in all likelihood, one of their top-six forwards as part of said trade. In the meantime, three of those top-six forwards -- Jonathan Drouin, Tyler Johnson and Ondrej Palat -- all need new contracts this summer too....

The goalie carousel This is shaping up to be the summer of the goalie musical chairs. Marc-Andre Fleury and Jaroslav Halak will await trades. One of Detroit's goalies, Jimmy Howard and Petr Mrazek, might get dealt. Does Colorado want to try to move Semyon Varlamov and the two years left on his deal, at $5.9 million per?...

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