Viacheslav Fetisov, a star defenseman during his days playing for the old Soviet Union teams and later in the NHL for the New Jersey Devils and Detroit Red Wings, will join NHL Live in studio Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. Fetisov won the Stanley Cup in back-to-back years with the Red Wings in 1997 and 1998 to close out a brilliant career.

The New York Rangers travel to face the Detroit Red Wings in this week's NBCSN Wednesday Night Rivalry game. We'll talk to analyst Pierre McGuire by phone at 6 p.m. to get a preview of this matchup between Eastern Conference powers.

Forward Anthony Duclair was recently traded from the Rangers to the Arizona Coyotes as part of the package for defenseman Keith Yandle. We'll talk to Duclair in this week's Prospect Report at 6:15 p.m.

NHL Live, with Steve Mears and E.J. Hradek, airs from 5-7 p.m. ET on NHL Network.

New York Rangers coach Alain Vigneault joined NHL Live to discuss the success of the Rangers and the addition of defenseman Keith Yandle.

General manager Glen Sather was busy before the NHL Trade Deadline, acquiring Yandle and forward James Sheppard, and trading forward Lee Stempniak to the Winnipeg Jets. Yandle debuted Monday in the Rangers' 4-1 win against the Nashville Predators, finishing with three shots and a minus-1 rating in 19:41 of ice time.

Yandle's 22 power-play assists is tied for the League lead and his 26 power-play points are tied for fifth.

Jaromir Jagr took the ice with the Florida Panthers for their pregame skate Saturday and is set to make his debut against the Nashville Predators at BB&T Center.

The 43-year-old forward, acquired from the New Jersey Devils on Thursday for a second-round and third-round pick in the 2015 NHL Draft, was the last member of the Panthers to come out for the skate, wearing his customary No. 68.

He was announced in the starting lineup with Aleksander Barkov and Jonathan Huberdeau.

Defenseman Jack Hillen, acquired by the Carolina Hurricanes earlier Saturday, will be in the lineup Saturday when they face the New York Islanders at Nassau Coliseum.

The Hurricanes traded defenseman Tim Gleason to the Washington Capitals for Hillen and a fourth-round pick in the 2015 NHL Draft.

The trade was announced around noon ET, and shortly after Hillen was seen in his suit with a bag packed, leaving the Capitals practice facility in Arlington, Va., for Long Island, according to the Washington Post.

Neither team held a morning skate Saturday after playing the night before.

The Calgary Flames plan to be "as aggressive as we can" heading into the NHL Trade Deadline at 3 p.m. ET on March 2, general manager Brad Treliving told Sportsnet 690 Radio on Friday.

"I wouldn’t say I'm close. Things can change. We’re talking. There’s lots of conversations going on," Treliving said, according to Nichols on Hockey. "Are we imminent? We hope; we expect and anticipate to get some business done. But again, I don't know. You need somebody to say yes on the other line too.

"So we're going to be as aggressive as we can. We'll see where that gets us."

The Chicago Blackhawks are close to making a trade, but not necessarily to directly replace injured forward Patrick Kane, general manager Stan Bowman told CSN Chicago on Thursday.

"We're getting pretty close [to a trade], but until it's done, it's not done," Bowman said. "I wouldn't want to characterize anything until you get the word that, 'yes, we have a deal,' and we'll make the trade call.

"I've seen enough things that you think are going to happen that don't quite work out. So we're not there yet, but we've had a lot of good discussions today. Hopefully we'll get there."

Two forwards debuted with new teams Thursday, and as expected were given some good opportunities.

Devante Smith-Pelly (4 percent owned in Yahoo leagues, LW/RW) played his first game for the Montreal Canadiens, a 5-2 win against the Columbus Blue Jackets. After starting on the fourth line with Brandon Prust and Jacob De La Rose, Smith-Pelly played most of the final two periods with Tomas Plekanec and Alex Galchenyuk.

Colorado Avalanche center Ryan O'Reilly is often mentioned in trade rumors with the NHL Trade Deadline on March 2 at 3 p.m. approaching.

Avalanche coach Patrick Roy did his best to quell those rumors Thursday during his weekly interview with 104.3 The Fan in Denver. O'Reilly is signed through the end of next season with a $6 million NHL salary-cap charge, and Roy said he doesn't see him going anywhere.

Anaheim Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau has been tweaking his lineup to try to generate more offense. It began three games ago by splitting up forwards Ryan Getzlaf and Corey Perry.

Now, Boudreau has a new weapon to work with in rookie forward Jiri Sekac.

The Ducks acquired Sekac on Tuesday from the Montreal Canadiens for forward Devante Smith-Pelly. Sekac was present at morning skate Wednesday, taking line rushes with Jakob Silfverberg and Ryan Kesler, but his status for the game against the Ottawa Senators is up in the air with Sekac awaiting a visa.

"We know he has skill, he can skate, and he's got a good shot," Boudreau told the Ducks website. "We move people around in our top-nine [forwards] until we find the right spot for them. I assume that'll be the same case here."

New Jersey Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello appears content to wait and see what develops this week before deciding to buy, sell or stand pat heading into the NHL Trade Deadline on March 2 at 3 p.m. ET, according to NorthJersey.com.

The Devils have won four straight games and entered Tuesday eight points behind the Boston Bruins for the second Eastern Conference wild-card berth into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. They also have two teams ahead of them in the standings, the Florida Panthers and the Philadelphia Flyers, and the Bruins and the Panthers each have a game in hand on the Devils.

Lamoriello believes most of the trade activity will come closer to the deadline.

"But that's a hard question to answer because really there's 29 other teams thinking independently and it takes two of them to do something," Lamoriello told NorthJersey.com. "Sometimes you think there's going to be no movement and there's a lot and then the reverse."