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Chatting With Lamoriello

by Alanah McGinley on 02/21/08 at 05:08 AM ET
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From Tom Gulitti at Fire & Ice,

Was there a sense of whether there’s going to be an active market at the trade deadline?

“No, I didn’t get a sense of that. I also saw statistics which were very interesting as far as the number of trades that transpired last year as compared to two, three, four, five years ago. (They were) very similar.

“But the trading deadline and (making) trades is always determined by who are buyers and who are sellers, but before you can be a buyer or a seller you have to have someone who has the potential of being out of the playoffs. And right now if you look at the points in each conference, you can see that if you go on a three-game winning streak or a four-game losing streak, you can find yourself on one side or the other. It think a lot will be determined very close to the trading deadline when those decisions have to be made with individual people with their free agency. Do I think there will be movement of players who are not free agents? Unless it’s a pretty big deal for both sides, I would be surprised at this point. It would have happened already.”

much more... of an interesting conversation with Lou Lamoriello Wednesday night, discussing everything from trade rumors to rule changes discussed at the GM meetings in Naples this week.
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*with thanks to Steve for providing the heads-up on this interview

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Who’s Talking To Who

by Paul on 02/19/08 at 07:58 PM ET
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from NHL.com writer Dan Rosen at NHL Connect,

I thought it was great to see George McPhee and Don Maloney chatting for close to 30 minutes during lunch. “Trying to make a trade,” Maloney joked to me. Probably not considering both teams are in a similar situation with young players and on the cusp of the playoffs. Still, good fodder.

I thought it was great to see Ken Holland walk out of the lunch area with Toronto interim GM Cliff Fletcher. “So, how’s it going?” Holland asked.

read on... Now more rumors can be created…

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