On the Montreal Canadiens …
Canucks Now: Ben Kuzma: “The Montreal Canadiens had a scout at the game on Saturday. This isn’t one of their local guys, this scout was from out east.” … “(The eastern scout) was in Vancouver specifically to look at Alex Burrows. Bergevin loves Burrows.”
On the Detroit Red Wings …
Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press: Winger Thomas Vanek has 13 goals, 20 assists in 41 games so far this season. If the Red Wings decide they are out of it, he could bring the Wings a nice return as a rental. Vanek wouldn’t mind staying.
“I signed a one-year deal, so it can happen,” Vanek said of a trade. “But I am focused on putting a couple more wins together and get ourselves in the picture and make it hard for Kenny to do something and hopefully stay here and make a run with this team.
“I think it’s a good team with a lot of upside. There’s a lot of young guys playing some good minutes and you can see they are getting better. Our veteran leadership is great. I like the community here. My boys, my family likes it. It’s definitely a place that’s been comfortable right away.”
Vanek carries a $2.6 million cap hit. If he does get traded, there is still the possibility that he returns to Detroit for next season.
“There is nothing that I don’t like here,” Vanek said. “I like the culture, I like the community, I like the city. Everything has been a good fit.”
On the top players that could be moved by the deadline …
TSN: Updated Trade Bait list …
- Kevin Shattenkirk
- Matt Duchene
- Martin Hanzal
- Patrick Eaves
- Michael Stone
- Radim Vrbata
- Gabriel Landeskog
- Ben Bishop
- Evander Kane
- Patrik Berglund
- Ondrej Pavelec
- Patrick Sharp
- Thomas Vanek
- Anthony Duclair
- Jordan Eberle
- Dmitry Kulikov
- Marc-Andre Fleury
- Curtis Lazar
- Shane Doan
- Jarome Iginla
- Mathieu Perreault
- Jaroslav Halak
- Alexandre Burrows
- Drew Stafford
- Brian Gionta
