Scouting the Toronto Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers
David Pagnotta: Scouts listed to attend last night’s Leafs-Flyers game: Buffalo Sabres (4), Boston Bruins, Chicago Blackhawks, Colorado Avalanche, Columbus Blue Jackets, Dallas Stars, Detroit Red Wings, Edmonton Oilers, St. Louis Blues, Tampa Bay Lightning, and the Vancouver Canucks.
Chris Johnston: Buffalo is a close drive to Toronto, but there are four Buffalo Sabres scouts listed to attend the Toronto Maple Leafs and Philadelphia Flyers, including associate GM Marc Bergevin.
Scouting the Colorado Avalanche and Los Angeles Kings
Dennis Bernstein: Scouts listed to attend last night’s Kings-Avalanche game: Chicago Blackhawks (GM Kyle Davidson), Anaheim Ducks, Nashville Predators, New York Rangers, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks, and the St. Louis Blues.
NHL Rumors: The Center Trade Market is Getting Interesting
The Los Angeles Kings are in desperate need of a center
NHL Rumour Report: Frank Seravalli on the Big Show on the 27th on the Los Angeles Kings: “They’re in desperate need of a center, if they could pry loose Elias Pettersson at a price that they feel is reasonable, that’s a move I could see them making.”
Things are picking up between the Colorado Avalanche and Calgary Flames
NHL Watcher: Chris Johnston on The Chris Johnston Show on the Calgary Flames, Colorado Avalanche and Nazem Kadri:
“Definitely things are picking up with talks between the Avalanche & Flames..Right now the way it looks is that Colorado could be at the front of the list but we are down to one phone call territory now, where everything could change at a moment’s notice.
It’s definitely heated up there, I know he’d welcome a move to Colorado..we’ll see if they can get something done here in the next day or two.”
NHL Rumors: How Big Can the Colorado Avalanche Go?
The Avalanche could have a fallback at center in Toronto
NHL Watcher: Elliotte Friedman on NHL on TNT said that Kadri to Colorado is a difficult one to do as the Flames don’t want to retain salary on Kadri. The Avs could look at a Maple Leafs center.
“One of the centres I heard could end up in Colorado is Scott Laughton, I think would be a tremendous fit and he would be more of a rental.”
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