Are there any trades on the horizon in the NHL?
Dave Pagnotta of The Fourth Period joined SiriusXM NHL Network Radio with Steve Kouleas and Martin Biron and we were asked if we could see some transactions sooner rather than later.
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Steve Kouleas: “Everything so early on the trade front, I mean we always talk about the American Thanksgiving. We have a whole group of everyone in the East who thinks they’re good, right? Nobody’s under NHL .500, and who are we going to trade within the East? So what we have, maybe two and a half bad teams? We’re thinking. What are St. Louis and Minnesota going to do? Trade with each other? It’s so early, so I’m sure there’s nothing to worry about. vanguard. What do you think could happen sooner rather than later?
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Dave Pagnotta: “Well, Kooli, everyone is going through their due diligence time, which is a little earlier than normal, maybe because more teams have cap space. Think that could be a factor here. But some teams want to know if they’re going to take a shot at someone down the road like obviously, we know (Nazem) Kadri in the reports there that when teams have reached out to understand they’re one of 13 on his no-trade list.
I think a similar situation will arise to see if a guy likes it Brayden Schenn is an opportunity to continue later in the season. He has a 15-team no-trade. Is that a path we can take if the (St. Louis) Blues can’t climb out of the hole they dug themselves in that first month? If they can’t go a little further here and get back to full action in December or January, is that a target?
Ryan O’Reillywho doesn’t have trade protection, but unofficially does? Similar situation. Teams are starting to look around to see if things are going well, here are some of our goals. This is who we’d like to follow.
Minnesota is a team that I thought last week – and was told last week – is looking for a mid-tier, mid-six type of forward, interchangeable, second- or third-line player who can provide a little secondary scoring. I think they’re going to look, and from what I was told yesterday and today, they’re out there looking to see if there might be a bigger fish. Maybe it’s a top-six, legitimate top-six winger that we could potentially pursue against a mid-six guy.
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So everyone’s just looking around to see what the options are right now. And with one phone call everyone suddenly starts working, and boom, we have another phone call and we have a deal. But right now I think it’s more about combing through it to see where things stand. But it seems like there are a lot of teams going through that to see what the options are.
And you never know when there’s an opportunity to strike sooner rather than later. Some of these teams are gathering that information to try to do that.
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