The Vancouver Canucks may only have one firm offer for Tyler Myers
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on Saturday Headlines on the Vancouver Canucks and Tyler Myers and Elias Pettersson. The Canucks may not have another firm offer for Myers and the Canucks are not interested in retaining salary on Pettersson.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
“Okay, Vancouver. It was reported this week. Tyler Myers, he’s considering a trade offer with Detroit. Myers has a no move, a no trade clause. I’m very sympathetic to Myers and his family situation. As we speak tonight, I believe that offer is still on the table. I think everybody was hoping there would be a decision by Monday. I just don’t know where it stands right now.
I also don’t believe, as we do this, that Vancouver has a firm other offer for Myers. So I think they’re considering, I think they’re talking to teams, but I don’t get the sense there’s anything else firm at this point in time. So we’ll see by Monday.
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Pettersson, I’ve looked around. I think it’s quiet around him right now, Ron, but the one thing I have heard about Patterson is that the Canucks are not interested in retaining on him. I think they’ve been asked, and I’ve heard that that is not what they’re willing to do. I’ve heard it’s pretty quiet around him as of tonight, Famous last words.”
The Buffalo Sabres will likely hold on to Alec Tuch past the deadline, even without an extension
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – NHL Trade Deadline: A Buyers’ Market episode said that the Buffalo Sabres are not a seller. Alex Tuch is a pending UFA, and though it’s possible they could lose him for nothing, believe that he stays with the Sabres even without an extension.
** NHLRumors.com transcriptions
“I wanted to mention Alex Tuch. Buffalo is not a seller. They’re going for it. Again, I could make myself look really bad here, but the betting on Tuch is that he stays in Buffalo next week, whether there’s an extension or not.
Like even if they don’t sign him, and I would suspect at this point in time they’re not, I think he stays. And don’t forget that (Sabres GM) Jarmo Kekalainen has been in this position before. When Columbus won their first ever playoff series between Tampa, they had some UFAs and Jarmo was in a position where he just said, ‘Know what? Yeah, Columbus has never won a series. We’re going for it. And if we lose guys, we lose guys.’
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And that’s what they did. And so he understands this. He knows how to handle it, and I think that’s the way he will do it in Buffalo. So as I record this pod late Thursday nightFriday morning, my bet Kyle is, he stays, and even if he doesn’t have an extension, which he probably won’t by next week. Again, things can change, but that’s my call right now.”
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