Donnie and Dhaliwal: Chris Johnston on the report that the Vancouver Canucks might think about shifting Elias Lindholm to the Boston Bruins and probably buying Jake Guentzel.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Don Taylor: “You tweeted about this yesterday and we admire it, Chris, however what are you able to inform us about the potential for the Canucks offloading Elias Lindholm to Boston to land Jake Guentzel?
Johnston: “Properly, I definitely nonetheless assume it is a risk. And you already know, you guys are going to be watching this crew carefully, I do not assume the match has been fairly good. And clearly the Canucks are in a mode the place this can be a main commerce deadline.
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It has been a terrific season and I believe they’re contemplating quite a lot of completely different choices in the mean time. , we even have sort of distinctive market situations, I’d say throughout the league. There actually aren’t many centermen in the marketplace. , certainly one of them is definitely Adam Henrique and Anaheim and it appears like a deal is going on proper now that might ship him to Edmonton.
And so it appeared just like the Bruins seemed round and mentioned, why not do that? I imply, it is very unusual. I am unable to consider an instance and I requested a couple of folks in my community at the moment if they might probably purchase a participant earlier than the deadline and promote on the similar deadline. However you already know, that continues to be a risk right here and you already know that.
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A part of that’s Elias Lindholm does not have any commerce safety in his contract and so you already know, he is sort of an ideal storm of issues that I believe have at the very least made this a risk. And you already know, I believe quite a lot of it is dependent upon the place issues find yourself with Jake Guentzel and that market stays slightly bit murky for me. And I am undecided the place the conversations with Guentzel stand proper now with Pittsburgh and the groups which are calling on him.”