Trade Bait update …
- TSN: Trade bait list
- Loui Eriksson
- Mikkel Boedker
- Jonathan Drouin
- Eric Staal
- Dan Hamhuis
- Kris Russell
- Jamie McGinn
- Radim Vrbata
- Nail Yakupov
- Brandon Pirri
- P.A. Parenteau
- Lee Stempniak
- Kris Versteeg
- John-Michael Liles
- David Jones
- Scott Hartnell
- David Schlemko
- Alex Chiasson
- Fedor Tyutin
- Bryan Bickell
- Josh Jorris
- Lars Eller
- Cam Ward
- Joe Colborne
- Kerby Rychel
On the Winnipeg Jets …
- Luke Fox of Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on Jacob Trouba.
“A guy that teams would love to get their hands on is Trouba in Winnipeg, but let’s see what Cheveldayoff does. He’s very measured. He waits things out. He’s not be afraid to be patient,” Friedman said of the impending RFA defenceman.
“But I do think there are teams — and I wouldn’t be surprised if Boston’s one of them — that if they could find a way to get to him now before more teams have the ability to do it, they’d love to do it.”
- Dennis Bernstein: Tobias Enstrom’s name is still out there.
- Ed Tait of the Winnipeg Free Press: Tait wonders if a contender would take on Tobias Entrom and his $5.75 million contract for the next two years. Same with Mark Stuart.Tait brings up the Jacob Trouba or Tyler Myers for Travis Hamonic idea again.
Would the Jets consider trading their 1st round pick for Jonathan Drouin? Tait doesn’t think so.
On the Minnesota Wild …
- Michael Russo of the Star Tribune: GM Chuck Fletcher before their last two losses on the deadline. Would they be sellers?
“No, we’re not looking to sell. We expect to make the playoffs. If we move anybody, it’s because we think we’re getting better.”
On the Deadline.
“When you compare this year to at least the past three or four seasons, in terms of rental market, it’s not a particularly strong rental market,” Fletcher said. “So there’s also a lot of teams that are reportedly looking to add instead of subtract, so I wouldn’t say there’s a lot of solutions in the marketplace. I still maintain our team is talented team to make the playoffs whether we add a player or not. It’s disappointing we sit where we sit, but we still have time to get back in. The focus I think remains on getting our players playing to their full potential and if we can achieve that, I think we’re a playoff team. So that’s the focus. Again, it’s not a particularly strong rental market. As I’ve been saying for weeks, if we can improve our team, we will. But again, I don’t know that there’s a whole bunch of solutions in the marketplace. I don’t think there’s a whole bunch of players better than what we have right now.”