The NHL's 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 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 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 - isn't 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 don't 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 didn't 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 England's Joe Haggerty floated some possible trade ideas in his weekly mail bag, including what he thinks it'd take for the Bruins to land Keith Yandle and where they could be looking to add a veteran winger.

Haggerty supports the B's 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.