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Friday Hockey Topics

11/28/2014 at 9:13am EST

from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,

- ...do you think Minnesota and Dallas were both hoping for a little more production from off-season signings Thomas Vanek and Ales Hemsky? Vanek has one goal (11 points) in 21 games for the Wild, while Hemsky is still goal-less, with just five helpers in 21 games. Both are on three-year deals, with Vanek making $6.5 million per, Hemsky $4 million. And they have just one goal between them in 42 combined games.

- It’s a great story being penned in Nashville, where the Predators have jazzed up their play, and sit atop the Central. Plus, they’ve got Calder Trophy favourite Filip Forsberg who came over in that trade for Martin Erat, a deal that GM David Poile didn’t even want to make.

“Martin asked to be traded. He didn’t believe in us anymore,” Poile told the Edmonton Journal’s Jim Matheson. “I had several conversations to try and talk him down. If Martin never came to me, we wouldn’t have traded him at all.”

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