- Bruce Garrioch via twitter: There haven’t been any talks between the Stars and Derek Roy in over a week.
- Dennis Bernstein via twitter: ‘Gaborik to the Kings is worst trade rumor ever, it would never happen’ …. but the Rangers keep sending two scouts to every Kings game.
- Fluto Shinzawa via twitter: Bruins Adam McQuaid is out 3-4 weeks with a strained left shoulder. Unless teams start to drop in the standings, if could be hard for GM Peter Chiarelli to add a left-handed top-four defenseman, a scoring winger and some depth on the blue line.
- Josh Cooper of the Tennessean: Predators GM David Poile:
“Our team and so many other teams don’t know where they are right now,” Predators general manager David Poile said. “Four or five wins in a row takes you in a very positive direction, and conversely if you went in a tailspin and lost four or five games, it would be very difficult for us or any other team to make the playoffs. You would probably be thinking of making some trades more for next year.”
“If there was something out there I could trade our first-round pick for that would clearly, to me, put us over the hump and take us to the next level — absolutely I would do it,” Poile said. “But I haven’t reached that conclusion yet.”