On the Boston Bruins and the Colorado Avalanche …
Kevin Paul Dupont: If the Boston Bruins trade for Colorado Avalanche winger Gabriel Landeskog and include Brandon Carlo, look for them to trade out some salary in the deal. Jimmy Hayes?
Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe: Avalanche GM Joe Sakic, assistant GM Chris MacFarland and amateur scout Neil Shea watched the Bruins-Canadiens game on Sunday.
As of last week, the Avs asking prices were way too high for any team.
The Bruins are not interested in any of the Avalanches rentals – Jarome Iginla, Rene Bourque, Fedor Tyutin, and John Mitchell.
“I’d prefer to err on the side of a player that will integrate into us on the longer term,” Sweeney said last Tuesday after firing Julien. “Last year, we gave up draft picks. I wasn’t prepared to move players that I felt, in the same regard, that teams had asked for in order to get a higher-level rental or a different kind of rental. I’m not going to deviate. Are there players and do we have a surplus? That’s what I want to try and evaluate, and find out whether or not we can deal from a position of strength.”
If the Bruins want one of the Avs big named players, it will cost a young player, pick and a prospect. Ryan Spooner, Frank Vatrano, Peter Cehlarik, and Colin Miller likely won’t interest Sakic that much.
Brandon Carlo is from Colorado Springs and would interest Colorado.
Joe Haggerty of CSNNE: The Montreal Canadiens are interested in Matt Duchene and the Boston Bruins are interested in Gabriel Landeskog.
An Eastern Conference source said the Bruins are targeting Landeskog. Landeskog has four more years left on his deal at $5.571 million. He would be a good addition to their rebuilding process.
Does GM Don Sweeney believe he has enough defensemen in their pipeline that they can afford to trade Brandon Carlo?
thinks that it would be a big mistake for the Bruins to trade the 20-year old Carlo “unless they get a game-changing, superstar young player.” Landeskog has been a good player in Colorado, but not great.
You can never have enough good, young defensemen.