The NHL's Mar. 2 Trade Deadline is approaching and teams are making decisions on whether to buy or sell and decide which players can make the biggest difference and hold the greatest value. Check out today's trade rumours and speculation from around the NHL beat. And follow TradeCentre on TSN and TSN.ca through Deadline Day for all the update.

Kane Available?

Evander Kane has had his week dominated by various plotlines; from a healthy scratch due to a dress code violation to potential surgery. Now, it seems "potential trade bait" can be added to the story.

TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger tweeted Thursday morning that there are "some medical issues to be resolved, but teams are calling and Jets are listening...hard" on offers for the 23-year-old.

Kane has scored 10 goals in 37 games with the Jets so far this season and is in the third year of a six-year deal he signed with the Jets worth an average annual value of $5.25 million.

The Vancouver native enjoyed a breakout season in 2011-12, scoring 30 goals. However, he has broken neither the 20-goal nor the 65-game plateau in any season since. He has missed two extended stretches already this season, missing eight games in October with a knee injury and five games around the New Year with a lower body injury.

Taking Flight?

The Detroit Red Wings have long had one of the NHL’s best track records in terms of drafting and developing star talent. But is this a year they mortgage some of those assets to make a big deadline splash?

Detroit Free Press reporter Jamie Samuelson believes the team needs to go all-out in search of a defenceman and focuses particularly on Tyler Myers.

Pointing to the team’s strong standings position - currently third in the Atlantic, but within two points of the first-place Lightning - Samuelson argues the time is now to get the most out of both the team’s young talent and the aging core of Zetterberg, Datsyuk and beyond.

What should be on offer? Samuelson argues, just about everything.

“Given how deep the Wings are in terms of youth, and particularly at forward, I'd make the following players untouchable - Nyquist, Tatar and Mantha. Beyond that, I'd go shopping.”

The "R" Word

Are the Toronto Maple Leafs finally ready to rebuild?

TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger dropped the “R Words” Leafs management has long dreaded on SportsCentre with Rod Smith Wednesday night - “renovation” and “rebuild”.

Leafs GM Dave Nonis is still in Nashville despite his team having left town to prep for their tilt against the Devils on Friday. The Predators are one of many teams believed to be keen on defenceman Cody Franson and their Thursday night opponents - the Pacific Division-leading Anaheim Ducks - may also be poised for some deadline buying.

But what could the Leafs be looking to do, trade-wise? Dreger said the team is “open to anything and everything” and will be seeking draft picks and players in the 21-25 age range to kick off a serious organizational facelift.

Greener Pastures Unlikely

The Washington Capitals find themselves in a unique situation when it comes to offensive defenceman Mike Green.

The Caps currently hold one the Eastern Conference wild card berths and are very much in the thick of the Metropolitan Division race, just four points out of first.

However, the team is also facing crucial decision when it comes to the 29-year-old Green. In the final season of a three-year, $18.25 million deal, the blueliner is on pace for his best offensive season in five years.

Can the Caps risk losing him for nothing in the off-season as an unrestricted free agent?

Caps GM Brian MacLellan told The Washington Post that Green’s relocation is unlikely.

“It’s fun for fans to do, I think,” MacLellan told the Post’s Alex Prewitt. “But it’s hard on players. They have families, kids in school, lifestyles and it’s hard for a player to get traded. I don’t take it lightly with them. When their names continually get brought up, it’s hard for them to hear that.”

A rival scout put an exclamation mark on the issue, speaking to Comcast Sportsnet, saying: “He’s playing well and a lot of teams would like to have him. But I’m not sure Washington wants to trade him. Why would they?”