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 aspect hopes one thing can get finished 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 News: The St. Louis Blues aren’t going to make any trades for the sake of creating a commerce, they usually aren’t going to provide anybody away.
“Once more, I don’t need to come throughout like … while you’re on this place, like Wayne Gretzky received traded,” Armstrong mentioned. “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 quite a lot of different guys that, when issues aren’t going nicely, that checklist grows, I’d say. Issues aren’t going nicely, so the checklist couldn’t be the place, ‘No, we might by no means ever contemplate that.’ What I need to ensure 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 mentioned. “We’ve a synthetic deadline Dec. 19, the commerce freeze. Once more, I’m simply utilizing my very own experiences, while you’re a high-functioning group, this offers you a purpose to name a low-functioning group to set the desk for while 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 the moment, we’d do it at the moment, however quite a lot of it’s, ‘Effectively, I’m not there but, however preserve 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 doubtless be a little bit bit earlier than the Olympics, after which the actual deadline will are available in in March.”
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