- Gary Lawless of the Winnipeg Jets: Jets GM Kevin Cheveldayoff won’t trade Evander Kane for the sake of trading him, and won’t move him for less than he thinks his worth is. He would like to make a deal before the deadline, but he won’t make a panic move. Cheveldayoff isn’t one to back down from his asking price. The asking price for a player like Kane (three years left at $5.25 million) is a young NHL player, a top prospect and a 1st round pick.
- Jason Botchford of the Vancouver Province: The Jets may look for a package of Bo Horvat, Jared McCann and a 1st round pick from the Canucks for Evander Kane. That is likely not something the Canucks would be interested in doing. The Jets are going to get two good players for Kane when they move him.
- Rich Chere of NJ.com: Devils GM Lou Lamoriello on the trade deadline.
“I’m going 24 hours at a time,” Lamoriello said. “There is everything you’re thinking about. You have everything in mind, but that’s no matter where your team is, no matter what the standings are and no matter what side of the fence you’re on.
“I’m no different than any other general manager. Everybody is thinking that way.”
- DJ Bean of WEEI: The Bruins are still looking for a winger, but GM Peter Chiarelli isn’t limiting his search.
“Everybody’s sort of focused on the fact that maybe our depth on the wings or scoring ability would be an area that we would like to address, having the types of players that we’ve lost over the last couple of years,” Sweeney said. “I don’t think it’s any trade secret that that’s probably the area that we’ve primarily been focused on, but I don’t think if any trade situations and discussions come up, that Peter wouldn’t have the opportunity to pursue in any one area that might strengthen our club.”
The Bruins have about $2.2 million in cap space. They don’t have a lot of cap space, but they could try to get the team to retain some salary.
“I think we have the assets to be able to pursue any type of deal outside of a straight cap add-on,” he said. “Obviously, the wiggle room we have from just adding a player without necessarily moving some money around is going to be more problematic than not, but from an organizational standpoint of having assets to be able to pursue deals and talk deals and potentially explore them, we absolutely are in a position to do that.
“Obviously, the cap dollars are what they are. We’ve been in the station all year long. We’ve managed that and we have to continue to do that down the stretch. Our cap situation doesn’t grow as the season goes along because we’re in LTI, but we do have some wiggle room.”