On the Calgary Flames and Dougie Hamilton …
Calgary Flames: Flames GM Brad Treliving on the rumors that they are shopping Dougie Hamilton: “Completely false.”
Lance Hornby: Treliving said that just because he watched the Maple Leafs play, it doesn’t mean they are actively shopping Hamilton.
Dougie Hamilton: Hamilton on being in trade rumors: “It’s just noise … it doesn’t really matter. Just play.”
Mike Halford of Pro Hockey Talk: Calgary Flames president Brian Burke on the Dougie Hamilton trade rumors.
“It’s very frustrating when you have to deal with leaks,” Burke told TSN 1050. “As soon as one of the team that’s in the mix with the leaks is the Toronto Maple Leafs — now, it’s an army of leakers. An army of people that have no goddamn idea what they’re talking about, who’ll happily go on and say the Toronto Maple Leafs are in on this, and doing that.
“This is one where we think we can trace the leak. got a call from a team — who shall remain nameless, at least for now, if this goes on much further I’m probably not going to remain them nameless — and said ‘would you move Dougie Hamilton?’ And said no.”
Chris Nichols of FanRag Sports: Burke on TSN 1050 went on to say that a team did make an offer for Hamilton.
“So we told this team – and by the way, the offer they made was insulting. So we told the team, ‘No, we’re not moving him and next time you have an idea that stupid, just save the quarter. Don’t go to the payphone.’
“That team started telling teams, ‘Yeah, we made an offer on Hamilton.’
“Now, it’s a rumor. It’s got legs, right. Someone’s like, ‘Well, they must be moving him.’
Burke adds that they haven’t offered Hamilton to any team and they don’t intend to trade him.
“Now, you say ‘If you got the right offer.’ Okay, if someone offers us 20 first round picks are we making that deal? Probably. Wayne Gretzky got traded. But the difference between listening and listening attentively and shopping – those are different things.
“So would you listen? Yes. It’s your job to listen. Is he a guy that we intent to move? Not a chance. Is he a guy that we think will move? Not a chance.”
TSN: Link to Burke on Leafs Lunch