Scouting the Jets and Blues
Murat Ates: Scouts listed to attend last night’s Winnipeg Jets – St. Louis Blues game: Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers.
Penguins and Zuccarello a fit
Dan Kingerski: New York Rangers forward Mats Zuccarello may be expecting to get traded. He would be a great fit with the Pittsburgh Penguins. believes he had chemistry with Derick Brassard when they were both in New York and were best friends. Not sure if the Penguins see it as a good fit though.
Rangers prospect will join them with his KHL season is over
Russian Prospects: New York Rangers prospect Vitaliy Kravtsov said in an interview with SportExpress that when his KHL season is over, he’ll be heading to North America. Traktor is currently out of the playoffs and their regular season could be over on February 22nd.
Igor Eronko: Kravtsov will join the Rangers when his season is over.
Will the Flyers be patient or not?
Chris Nichols of Nichols on Hockey: Elliotte Friedman on his 31 Thoughts podcast on the Philadelphia Flyers.
Former Flyers GM Ron Hextall loved Wayne Simmonds but wasn’t willing to give him the term. How will new GM Chuck Fletcher feel about giving Simmonds term?
How aggressive will Fletcher be on the trade front?
“It’s funny,” replied Friedman. “He came out on Monday night in Philly, he spoke to a couple of their beat reporters. I saw Sam Carchidi and Dave Isaac wrote about it. He was saying, ‘No, I’m going to take my time with Dave Hakstol. I’m going to take my time with the players and see what I’ve got here.’
“Meanwhile, all of the other teams are telling me at the Board of Governors that the Flyers want to make big trades right away. So I don’t know. I don’t know what’s going to happen there.”