from Eliotte Friedman of Sportsnet,
- Two teams you are going to hear in almost every trade rumour: Carolina and Colorado.
- Marek mentioned Anaheim, Los Angeles and St. Louis in deep on Jakob Chychrun last weekend. All of those make sense, but that contract is right in the Hurricanes’ wheelhouse. Some teams also believe Arizona prefers the Eastern Conference, if possible.
- There hasn’t been a ton of trade talk because of COVID and cap constraints. That’s going to change in the next week or so. We are in scouting-meeting season, so targets will be identified. As one exec laughed, “Time to start reporting which scouts are in attendance.”
- The most open-minded thing about Lidstrom’s hiring is that he’s staying in Sweden. Someone will tell me if I’m wrong, but I don’t recall anyone with such a high-level title as Vice-President of Hockey Operations of an NHL team based overseas. But when you can employ Lidstrom’s brain, you make concessions. There were some real good questions and answers in this availability. Lidstrom was asked if he thought of himself as GM somewhere down the road, and replied, “I haven’t thought that long-term at all.”
- Who knows how things are going to look when the trade deadline hits 69 days from now (nice!), but at least one US-based rental has indicated at this time he won’t go to Canada under the current setup.
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