from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

Thomas Vanek, Matt Moulson, Mike Cammalleri, Marian Gaborik and Ales Hemsky, all pending UFA wingers, remained on the trade block, a departure in some ways from the last few years when many of the rentals went days before the deadline.

Remember Brenden Morrow, Jarome Iginla and Jaromir Jagr all moved before the actual deadline day a year ago.

There's a pretty simple answer to it all. As one NHL GM of a contender told ESPN.com Monday night, the prices needed to go down before he would consider any of those rentals.

Is this the year the buyers keep their sanity?

Who knows, all it takes is one of those rentals to move Tuesday and the domino effect might take place.

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