On the Arizona Coyotes …
Michael Russo: The Coyotes had three scouts listed to attend the Minnesota Wild – Chicago Blackhawks game last night, including GM John Chayka.
On Claude Julien …
Bob McKenzie: Would expect the Vegas Golden Knights and Florida Panthers to ask the Bruins permission to speak with Claude Julien at some point.
Bob McKenzie: Don’t think that New York Islanders have asked the Bruins permission yet to speak to Julien.
On the Dallas Stars …
Mike Heika of the Dallas Morning News: (chat) Heika thinks management wants to give the coaching staff some more time to see if they can turn it around, but “the clock is ticking” on the coaching staff.
The Stars could make Patrick Eaves ($1 million), Lauri Korpikoski ($1 million) and possibly Jiri Hudler ($2 million) available. Good cap hits that teams can fit in.
Chris Nichols of FanRag Sports: Pierre LeBrun on TSN 1050 on the Dallas Stars and their goaltending issues. When asked if they can move forward with current goaltending tandem, LeBrun says they can’t and will likely address before the trade deadline, or in the offseason.
“I’m told that there at least been a very preliminary discussion between Pittsburgh and Dallas regarding Marc-Andre Fleury, but I stress preliminary because I don’t think there’s anything there at this point. But certainly there’s been contact and sometimes you just do that so that if you have to circle back at the last moment, you know that you’ve at least established contact. We’ll see.
“Certainly Fleury with two more years on his deal and a championship resume, I think we all agree would be an upgrade. But either way, whoever it is, they can’t go into next year – and it’s not all on the two goalies, but the team save percentage speaks fairly loudly. They need saves. I mean, you can’t be chasing all night long like they have been most nights.”