I suspect the Oilers are on the eight-team I-don’t-want-to-go-there trade list that Christian Ehrhoff has handed Buffalo Sabres GM Tim Murray. Ehrhoff, who is in Year 3 of a 10-year contract, has a tidy $4-million salary-cap hit, with $18 million in salary over seven years left after this season. The Oilers would love him, but the San Jose Sharks, Philadelphia Flyers and Colorado Avalanche would seem better bets. The Flyers could give the Sabres centre Sean Couturier while Colorado has winger P.A. Parenteau.

Before wrapping up a trio's worth of Hockey World columns with some "Short Shifts":

Andrej Meszaros, the New York Islanders’ Andrew MacDonald and the Senators’ Chris Phillips. New York wants a first-rounder for MacDonald. Boston won’t do that. Bruins pro scout Adam Creighton was at Rexall Place on Thursday and Saturday to watch Schultz, who would fit on the Bruins’ third defensive pairing. They’d give up a medium draft pick for him and likely are offering winger Jordan Caron to one and all. I’d rather have winger Matt Fraser, who came to Boston in the Tyler Seguin deal with the Dallas Stars.

The Columbus Blue Jackets will hold on to unrestricted free-agent winger Marian Gaborik because there’s been tepid interest from other teams who don’t like his $7.5-million salary or the fact his body is breaking down. It’s a little messy in Columbus, though, because they dealt Derick Brassard, John Moore and Derek Dorsett to the New York Rangers at last year’s trading deadline for Gaborik. Mind you, they’d really only like the defenceman Moore back.

Is there any possibility the Detroit Red Wings deal for the Rangers’ Ryan Callahan if he doesn’t take New York’s $36-million (over six years) offer because Wings associate coach Tom Renney coached him in New York?

Nope.