The Chicago Blackhawks have a couple of guys out there, and teams are asking about Kevin Korchinski
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – NHL Trade Deadline: A Buyers’ Market episode on the Chicago Blackhawks. Forward Ilya Mikheyev could be available. Some teams wonder about young defenseman Kevin Korchinski.
** NHLRumors.com transcriptions
“Chicago. Murphy (traded to Edmonton yesterday), again, lot of defensemen available. That’s their challenge. I’ve heard they’ve got Mikheyev out there. I think they tried to sign him at one point, but I think Mikheyev is out there, and Chicago is going to have a couple other guys.
I know some people have wondered about Korchinski there, because they’ve got a lot of D. He’s been in the minors. His future is another thing I think people have wondered about.”
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Zach Whitecloud is in no rush to leave Calgary, and the crowded center market that includes Nazem Kadri
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – NHL Trade Deadline: A Buyers’ Market episode on the Calgary Flames and what are they going to do with Zach Whitecloud and Nazem Kadri?
** NHLRumors.com transcriptions
“Calgary, I heard that. I heard a couple things with Calgary. Number one thing I heard, because there was a lot of questions about Whitecloud. What were they going to do with Whitecloud? Another team told me that they heard that Whitecloud is not in a hurry to get out of there. That he’s not, he’s not someone who shows up and says, ‘No, this isn’t for me, and can I go somewhere else?’ That is not the case.
Now, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t get traded. It just means that the Flames are happy to have players who are happy there, and they’re not motivated to move him. They get a great offer. Look out. There’s not much else you can do. You get a great offer. You jump at it. But I’ve just heard from a couple teams that Whitecloud indicated of the Flames, he’s happy to stay, and therefore they’re not rushing him to the front of the list, we have to trade this guy.
The biggest challenge I think the Flames will have is that all of their guys have competition. Kadri, I think people love Kadri, the player. I’m not sure they’re crazy about the term. And also, there’s other centers. There’s Trocheck, who you mentioned. There’s O’Reilly, who we’ll get to. There’s other centers available. So while I do think people like Kadri, the player between the age and the term, I think that’s the challenge that the Flames are going to have.
And like I said, people like (Blake) Coleman, people like (MacKenzie) Weegar, but there are other players around them. And Conroy has shown he’s not afraid to be patient. And if you look at some of the deals he’s made to get younger, when he has had some leverage to wait, he’s done a pretty good job using that.
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But the key I’ve heard there is that Whitecloud is not in a rush to leave, and therefore they’re not rushing to move him.”
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