Teams interested in San Jose Sharks unsigned prospect Sasha Chmelevski
**Breaking News ** ? ?
The @SanJoseSharks currently hold his rights, there’s high interest from @NHL teams in trading to sign Sasha Chmelevski. He’s been one of the top players in the KHL for the last 2 seasons, and his representation has been granted permission to engage… pic.twitter.com/qcWZSX6Px1
— Kevin Weekes (@KevinWeekes) January 13, 2024
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Quinn Hughes a centerman?
B/R Open Ice: Bruce Boudreau on when he was the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, someone in the organization wanted Boudreau to make Quinn Hughes a centerman and not a defenseman.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Boudreau: “I gotta say this for the first time on TV, and I mean, I’m going, I’m not gonna say who, but somebody in that Vancouver organization tried to make me make Quinn Hughes a center last year.
Kevin Weekes: “What?”
Jackie Redman: “What?
Boudreau: “And I refused to do it and I said, I’m not making them a center. I’m not making them a center and they kept trying to put me to put Quinn at center and I am so happy I didn’t.
First of all, he would probably have not take it very well. Secondly, the year he’s having, a Norris Trophy kind of year. Boy, it’s quite a difference from him playing center on that team,
Redman: “Bruce coming out here and dropping spicy nuggets on this edition.”
Weekes: “That is, that is really, I can taste the buffalo sauce.
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Boudreau: “I wanted to say that one thing for a year and a half, like I mean, for over, almost a year now because I think it was about this time that I was let go last year and, but I mean, I would sit there and shake my head and I’m going, Quinn Hughes is not playing center for this team player. He’s a defenseman.”