{"id":9454,"date":"2025-06-24T01:18:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9454\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T01:18:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T01:18:07","slug":"metropolitan-notes-severson-penguins-snowden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/9454\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Notes: Severson, Penguins, Snowden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blue Jackets defenseman <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/severda01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Damon Severson<\/strong><\/a> has popped up in recent trade discussions, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailyfaceoff.com\/news\/nhl-trade-targets-board-top-35-frank-seravalli-dobson-pageau-kane-rust\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">relays Daily Faceoff\u2019s Frank Seravalli<\/a>.\u00a0 The 30-year-old still has six years left on his contract with a $6.25MM cap charge.\u00a0 He logged over 19 minutes a game this season and posted 25 points in 70 appearances but notably, he was a healthy scratch down the stretch as Columbus made their late push for the playoffs.\u00a0 Given that limited usage late, it\u2019s not too surprising that the Blue Jackets appear to be exploring if there are any trade options with Severson even though they\u2019re set to potentially lose two key blueliners in pending UFAs <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/p\/provoiv01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Ivan Provorov<\/strong><\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/f\/fabbrda01.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>Dante Fabbro<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 Notably, Severson has a full no-trade clause so even if a trade gets agreed on, the veteran will have the final say on if it happens.<\/p>\n<p>More from the Metropolitan:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While the order for the draft has now been set, there is still one pick whose status is in flux. That would be the 12th overall selection, presently held by the Rangers, who have until Wednesday to decide if they\u2019re conveying it to the Penguins or keeping it, allowing Pittsburgh to get New York\u2019s 2026 unprotected pick.\u00a0 Josh Yohe of The Athletic notes (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6443910\/2025\/06\/23\/penguins-nhl-draft-trades-free-agency\/?source=emp_shared_article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">subscription link<\/a>) that at this moment, the belief inside the Penguins organization is that the Rangers will keep the selection and defer ceding the first rounder until next year.\u00a0 Even if that happens, Pittsburgh will have a late-lottery pick as they already have the 11th selection.<\/li>\n<li>It appears as if the Flyers could be promoting from within when it comes to their AHL head coaching vacancy. Kevin Kurz of The Athletic reports (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KKurzNHL\/status\/1937177875565756710\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter link<\/a>) that the frontrunner is Phantoms assistant coach John Snowden.\u00a0 He has spent the last two years in that role after spending the previous two as an assistant with AHL Toronto.\u00a0 Snowden, if ultimately promoted, would take the place of Ian Laperriere who was reassigned in the organization back in the spring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blue Jackets defenseman Damon Severson has popped up in recent trade discussions, relays Daily Faceoff\u2019s Frank Seravalli.\u00a0 The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[10489,10490,3110,10487,10488,1302,293,3108,1334,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-9454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-2025-nhl-draft","9":"tag-ahl","10":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","11":"tag-damon-severson","12":"tag-john-snowden","13":"tag-new-york-rangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-philadelphia-flyers","16":"tag-pittsburgh-penguins","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114735710419224048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}