On the Winnipeg Jets …
- Gary Lawless: If the Jets are able to re-sign Dustin Byfuglien to a deal with a salary cap hit over $7 million, they may have to find some cost certainty elsewhere on their blueline. It might make a Jacob Trouba for Travis Hamonic trade plausible.
On the Minnesota Wild …
- ESPN: Pierre LeBrun: The Wild were in on Ryan Johansen, they are interested in Jonathan Drouin, and GM Chuck Fletcher has “other irons in the fire.” It’s not easy to make impact trades in a salary cap league.
- Scott Burnside: The Wild need a scoring center.
- Craig Custance: Fletcher has been trying to make a trade for months.
- Joe MacDonald: Some think the Wild could be interested in Bruins Loui Eriksson, but that is unlikely. Sure he’d help the Wild, but Fletcher isn’t interested in a rental player. They kicked tires on Drouin, but that interest faded. Wonder if the Canadiens would dangle Alex Galchenyuk and if Fletcher would bite on it.
On the Montreal Canadiens …
- John Lu: Michel Therrien said that Carey Price is not into the next stage of his rehab. There is no updated timeline for his potential return.
- Chris Nichols of Today’s Slapshot: Elliotte Friedman on the Carey Price injury. Though it hasn’t been confirmed, Friedman thinks Price’s injury is a MCL sprain of his right knee. The Canadiens haven’t said anything.
“The Canadiens have been criticized locally for not getting surgery done. But I’ve been told the moment he got hurt they went to their doctors and asked, ‘Do we need surgery here?’
“They were told, ‘No. Rehab is better.’
“Price went for a second opinion. The doctor told him the same thing.
“Kyper reported on Wednesday that he actually went for a third opinion and he was told that again.
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“I don’t know. Honestly, the Canadiens are keeping this so quiet. Nobody knows. But I think you have to be under the impression that it’s possible he doesn’t play again this year.”
