Carl Mayton
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Hurricanes May Use Goalie as Trade Bait
According to Carolina Hurricanes general manager Don Waddell, the team might consider moving one of it’s goaltenders. “We don’t have a lot of cap space. If we’re going to do something at the trade deadline, maybe one of the chips is one of our goalies. I can’t say which one. It depends.” James Reimer and… Continue reading
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Canadiens Acquire Eric Staal
The Montreal Canadiens have acquired center Eric Staal from the Buffalo Sabres. The trade was helped by news that Canada will be reducing its quarantine to 7 days for players entering the country. Continue reading
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Today in Trade History: Bryan Marchment traded to San Jose
On this day in 1998, the Tampa Bay Lightning traded Bryan Marchment and David Shaw to the San Jose Sharks for Andrei Nazarov and the right to swap 1998 first round picks. A bit of background is needed to set the scene of the trade deadline move. Early in the season, the Sharks traded 22-year… Continue reading
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Report: Eric Staal to Prefer American Teams
According to a report by Dave Pagnotta of the Fourth Period, Eric Staal has little interest in subjecting himself to the two-week quarantine that being traded to a Canadian team would require. Pagnotta says that Staal has a 10-team no-trade clause, and could therefore remove Canadian teams as a possibility. This part is unclear to… Continue reading
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Islanders Place Anders Lee on LTIR
The Islanders have placed Anders Lee on long-term injury reserve. This move means that Lee will miss at least the next 10 games for Islanders. Arthur Staple suggested that the Lee injury could conceivably move the Islanders to the front of the line of trade deadline buyers. He mentions Taylor Hall, Kyle Palmieri, Nick Foligno,… Continue reading
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Blue Jackets Looking for a Center
Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen declares that his club is looking for a center following Pierre-Lub Dubois forcing his way out of town. “Now we have to get back into our hunt, finding a centreman either through the draft or through a trade. They aren’t available very often. There could be some available in the… Continue reading
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Sabres “Wide Open” for Business
On Hockey Night in Canada’s Saturday Headlines, Elliotte Friedman reports that the sense around the league is that the Buffalo Sabres are wide open for business and will listen to just about anything. He specifically mentioned Sam Reinhart and Eric Staal as players to watch for on the trade market. As Chris Johnston points out,… Continue reading
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McKenzie: Bruins Could Talk Contract with Rask, Halak
Bob McKenzie reports on NBC that the Boston Bruins are not opposed to negotiating in-season with pending UFA goaltenders Tuukka Rask and Jaroslav Halak with sights on bringing back one or both. McKenzie notes that the strong play of promising young goaltenders Jeremy Swayman and Daniel Vladar with Providence of the AHL complicates things, as… Continue reading
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