Has Phillip Danault requested for a commerce?
Marco D’Amico: Sources have indicated that Los Angeles Kings ahead Phillip Danault has requested for a commerce, and his facet hopes one thing can get performed earlier than the vacation commerce freeze (midnight of December twentieth).
The Kings are usually not in a rush, and aren’t searching for a futures deal, they’d like a player-for-player deal.
The Montreal Canadiens, New Jersey Devils, and Carolina Hurricanes are among the many groups which have kicked tires.
Allan Walsh: (Danault’s agent) “You by no means bothered to verify with me.”
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The St. Louis Blues don’t have any untouchables, however GM Doug Armstrong isn’t giving anybody away
Lou Korac of The Hockey Information: The St. Louis Blues aren’t going to make any trades for the sake of creating a commerce, they usually aren’t going to offer anybody away.
“Once more, I don’t need to come throughout like … if you’re on this place, like Wayne Gretzky bought traded,” Armstrong stated. “There’s actually no untouchables – not on the St. Louis Blues – there’s actually few untouchables within the league … Sid (Crosby), Connor (McDavid), Nate (MacKinnon).
However there’s a variety of different guys that, when issues aren’t going nicely, that record grows, I might say. Issues aren’t going nicely, so the record couldn’t be the place, ‘No, we may by no means ever take into account that.’ What I need to be sure you guys know, we’re not promoting $.50 cents on the greenback out of anger.”
The Blues have struggled this season and groups are calling. GM Doug Armstrong wouldn’t be doing his job if he weren’t listening.
“Yeah, just like the NHL as we all know it, we work on deadline and synthetic deadlines,” Armstrong stated. “We now have a man-made deadline Dec. 19, the commerce freeze. Once more, I’m simply utilizing my very own experiences, if you’re a high-functioning workforce, this offers you a purpose to name a low-functioning workforce to set the desk for if you’re truly going to do it.
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So yeah, groups are beginning to kick tires and beginning to ask the place we’re at, and we’re saying, ‘We’re definitely not happy with the place we’re at. What are your concepts?’ If it made sense at this time, we might do it at this time, however a variety of it’s, ‘Properly, I’m not there but, however maintain me within the loop.’ That synthetic deadline will go away on Dec. 19 and we’ll put the following synthetic deadline, which is able to probably be slightly bit earlier than the Olympics, after which the actual deadline will are available in March.”
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