TSN: Darren Dreger when requested if the commerce floodgates will open with the vacation roster freeze opening up.
** NHLRumor.com transcription
Host: “The NHL roster freeze ends evening at midnight.”
Dreger: “Yeah.”
Host: “Would you count on any exercise maybe the floodgates can open on, on some sort of transactions are getting it’ll be fairly quiet popping out of that.”
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Dreger: “Nicely, exercise possibly, floodgates, no. Quiet probably. So I’ve answered all of it in 5 seconds or much less. I imply, there’s nothing on the entrance burner as Cliff Fletcher used to say, that has our radar up. And realities whenever you look across the Nationwide Hockey League guys, like look, the parody that exists. We talked about this on a regular basis.
However you already know, whenever you’re taking a look at a promoting staff as an, for instance, we on Insider Buying and selling spent a whole lot of time speaking about Calgary Flames. But right here they’re the Calgary Flames are they usually’re sitting ready the place effectively, how do you dump all these pending you face and also you haven’t hit the 40-game mark?
And possibly the identical applies to the Philadelphia Flyers. Like I’ve talked rather a lot about Sean Walker, and Nick Seelers and (Rasmus) Ristolainen as potential commerce choices. Nicely, the Philadelphia Flyers are within the thick of it.
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So I feel you already know, we’re nonetheless at a spot the place you’re gonna see some knee-jerk. You’re gonna see some desperation strikes, however I don’t assume we’re gonna see something that’s actually, actually massive. Extra of the effectively, I’ll commerce you this and I’ll offer you that, simply type of transferring the deck chairs a little bit bit. However I’ve been mistaken earlier than. I simply really feel prefer it’s nonetheless too early regardless that I do know that’s a little bit of a copout.”
