No Urgency From Ottawa To Commerce Jacob Chychrun
TSN Hockey Analyst Darren Dreger joined SportsCenter with Jay Onrait and was requested about the potential of the Ottawa Senators shifting Jacob Chychrun on the deadline.
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Jay Onrait: “Let’s begin with the Ottawa Senators. They’re so intriguing. They performed so much higher these days, however they’ve a handful of gamers on our Commerce Bait Board. Let’s begin with Jake Chychrun. The place do issues stand with him?”
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Darren Dreger: ” Nicely, there’s plenty of hypothesis that’s been ongoing, however my place on this stays the identical and that, , I feel it’s unlikely at this level that the Ottawa Senators entertain a commerce.
Now, if someone steps up with one thing that they will’t stroll away from that makes a lot sense and ticks all of the containers, after all, Staois goes to make that play. However is there sufficient time for that to materialize between now and March eighth?
Have in mind he’s acquired the Ottawa routes. He’s a giant a part of that crew. They bring about Shane Pinto again off suspension, and there’s much more stability in that lineup than there was for the primary variety of video games of the common season.
So sure, once more, if someone steps up, may Jake Chychrun be traded by the Sens? He may. It feels extra of an offseason transfer simply based mostly on the truth that there actually is not any urgency to get it accomplished.”
Los Angeles Kings May Be A Participant on the Deadline
TSN Hockey Analyst Darren Dreger joined SportsCenter with Jay Onrait and was requested about the potential of the Los Angeles Kings making a giant splash on the deadline based mostly on the cash that would probably be freed up.
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Onrait: “The LA Kings, one other intriguing crew. They’re proper within the thick of the playoff race. They is likely to be with out their prime point-getter for some time, Adrian Kempe. He’s injured in that loss to Edmonton on Monday.
It’s arduous to determine what Rob Blake‘s doing right here as a result of the goaltending scenario has deteriorated over the course of the season. Does he must make one other transfer there? Has it modified Blake’s method to the deadline with this Kempe damage?”
Dreger: “Yeah, it may. We’re not going to know that till Wednesday. And that’s as a result of Adrian Kempe left the LA Kings Street journey, and he has gone again to Los Angeles scheduled for an MRI on Wednesday. As you possibly can see, he’s favoring the left arm right here, proper? Yeah.
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So, the assumption is it’s a wrist damage. If it’s important that it takes him out of the common season or till the top of the common season, properly, then that frees up the cap area, and Rob Blake maybe will get energetic on the commerce market. But when it’s shorter time period, like Arvidsson or Carl Grundstrom, these guys have been week to week, however the expectation is that they’ll be again earlier than the top of the common season.
I’m not gonna get too difficult, however in the event you’re utilizing long-term damage area for any degree of aid, then these gamers come again, you need to have the area to place these gamers again within the lineup.”
