Draft trade talk notes from round one …
Elliotte Friedman: Ottawa Senators GM Pierre Dorion on trade talk on Friday, day one of the draft: “the quietest day of the week.”
Frank Seravalli: Dorion on the Friday trade talk: “I made a lot of calls and other GMs would say ‘You’re my first call of the day.’ It was a quiet day.”
Dave Isaac: Philadelphia Flyers GM Ron Hextall on the trade chatter and the very little action on Friday: “That was kind of a boring first day or first round. It’s not typical for this day.”
Craig Morgan: Arizona Coyotes GM John Chayka said that he never had any serious talks about moving up in round one.
Kristen Anderson: Calgary Flames GM on if he was close to anything on Friday night: “I don’t know how close we were. Lots of phone calls throughout the day, lots of stuff at the table. But as I’ve said … nothing come our way and made sense for us to try and get into the first round.”
Sarah McLellan: Minnesota Wild looked at moving up and down in round one. GM Paul Fenton about trading for a player: “I wasn’t really doing too much on that player front right now. Today is kind of a unique time. I don’t think you see too many big-time trades, but I did make a couple calls on players.”
Andrew Gross: New York Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello on trading for a goalie over the weekend: “I don’t think we need to come away these two days with anything. But are we looking for a goalie, absolutely, and I think we have quite a bit of time to get that done.”
Andrew Gross: Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello on the amount of trade talk during the draft: “The phones are always the same, there’s always activity. It’s the results of the activities. You’re always talking because you have to keep abreast of what’s going on, but it wasn’t any different than normal.”
Jeremy Rutherford: St. Louis Blues GM Doug Armstrong said they were in talks with three teams on Friday involving forward but they weren’t able to finalize anything.
David Pagnotta: The Vancouver Canucks tried to acquire a late first-round pick but they didn’t want to meet the asking prices.
David Pagnotta: Canucks GM Jim Benning said the cost would have been the No. 37 pick and another high draft pick, something he didn’t want to do.
Ken Wiebe: Winnipeg Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff on if the cost was too high to move back in the first-round: We had some conversations. i wouldn’t say we had negotiations. The semantics are very important to that. As you saw there wasn’t a lot of moves, there was just a couple of up and downs. When you don’t have a pick to do the up and downs, then you need a premium asset to be able to trade right into the first round.”
