NHL Trade Deadline Buzz: Top Players Potentially Moving

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00:00So, I wanted to go through some of these guys with you and your thoughts on them if they

00:04move by the deadline tomorrow, I've seen, you know, many of them ranked as the hottest

00:12ticket on the market would be Rantan, you know, Brock Nelson.

00:18It goes on and on, Raquel of the Penguins, and even Kyle Paul Mary of the Owners.

00:25While I'm mentioning Brock Nelson, those are some of the top guys that are out there

00:30right now that could be moved by tomorrow's deadline, what do you think?

00:34You're forgetting about another Brock as well, Brock Besser with the Vancouver Canucks could

00:39potentially be on the market, but word is, they're not floored with the offers.

00:45Problem with Besser is, he makes quite a bit of money and he hasn't been as productive

00:50since JT Miller got dealt, and even Rick Talkin himself said, listen, a lot of his

00:55production came through Miller and he's kind of struggling in the post-Miller era here,

01:00so I don't think Besser's going to get traded, Rantan's a fascinating story, isn't it?

01:05I mean, he's on the Colorado Avalanche, it was a shock move, nobody saw it coming, there

01:09was no buzz, nobody knew anything about it, hell, Nate McKinnon didn't even know anything

01:13about it, and you know, Rantan's a free agent, he wants to be paid like, you know, 12 mil

01:2013 mil, like he wants to get like the max amount of money he can get, and the Colorado

01:25Avalanche called his bluff, and basically, you know, said, we're not going to do this,

01:29so let's just trade him, and they did, but it shocked him, like it was almost like after

01:35like, oh, we could have talked more, right, but they were like, well, you know, so where

01:40I'm going with this is, I don't know, I wouldn't be shocked if he ends up back on the Avalanche

01:44after all this, like it seems that he wanted to be there so much, he hasn't done anything

01:48with the Canes, and word is with Rantan, he told the Canes point blank, I'm not promising

01:55that I'm going to resign with you, which their interpreting is, yeah, he's not going to resign

01:59with us, right, I'm not saying he's Juan Soto, but he wants to go back to the market, he

02:04didn't want to get traded in the first place, it's rattled him, he's been depressed, he

02:08hasn't played well, the only thing is, it's going to be hard to like, you know, who has

02:14enough to get Rantan in from them right now, we hear the LA Canes are the one team that

02:20he would be interested in and potentially he would get traded to and want to resign

02:24with, I don't, you know, my gut feel is, they just went through this with Gensel last year,

02:30Scott, right, and I mean, I don't know why the Penguins let Gensel go in the first place,

02:34he didn't even want to leave, so he ends up on Carolina.

02:36And he bolted from there, he bolted right out of there.

02:40That's what I'm saying, Scott, and they gave up, so they keep on, they keep on getting

02:44players and then not being able to keep them there for whatever reason, it should be noted,

02:49North Carolina is not some sort of tax haven like Florida and Texas are, and some of the

02:54other places that players love to play right now.

02:57Boring as hell there, I was in the team hotel and they're like, we're going out drinking

03:01to some country bar, I said, I'll drink in my room, I'm not going in the woods, I'm not

03:07going anywhere in the woods.

03:09But you notice, you notice players want to play for the Lightning, they sure, I'll play

03:13for the Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes is like, nah, you know, I'm not really in.

03:19And they have the Caniacs and they have golf and all that, you know, I don't know, it is

03:23what it is, right, I can't get into the minds of players.

03:26Look at Tampa, they made a deal, they got Yanni Gord back and they were already good,

03:31do you think, because they shot up the odds board yesterday with that deal, do you think

03:37they have a legitimate shot in the East?

03:39I legitimately do believe that, Scott, I really do, I think John Cooper is the best coach

03:43in the National Hockey League and, you know, you see the Lightning, they lose Steve Stamkos,

03:48one of those deals, oh, why, you know, why are you letting Stam, it's almost like a team

03:50letting a wide receiver go, why are you doing this?

03:52They're like, you know, because we don't want to pay him all this money, he didn't want

03:55to leave and look, things aren't going well for him in Nashville and they taught a new

04:00system, they're more defensive minded now, he's a great coach, they have great players

04:05and it was a great move, you bring in a guy like Gord, he's already been there, you know

04:08what it tells me, Scott, that's like building for like a cup run, right, I mean, they're

04:13putting all the pieces together, I'll tell you one thing, though, this is just like sort

04:19of hot off the presses, I'd be shocked and it'd be like, this would actually be like,

04:24wow, if it happened, but supposedly the Bruins are taking calls right now on Brad Marchand,

04:30which is like, I can't imagine this guy in any other jersey than a Boston Bruins jersey,

04:34but it's the modern sports world we're in right now, no Crosby, Crosby ain't going anywhere,

04:39but Brad Marchand.

04:40I don't think that, I don't think Marchand, you know, to me that shelf life is rubbed

04:46out, I don't, I think that his time in Boston doesn't matter anymore, he's been there long

04:51enough and they did it before, they're not doing it again with him, I can see him moving

04:56and they're not going to cry either.

04:58Yeah, you know what, though, he's just, he's one of those guys that he's a Bruin, like

05:02through and through and through, right, oh yeah, they lose, he's like the heart and soul,

05:06like they, if they trade him, that's like, all right, we're completely starting over

05:11from scratch here, we have no heart and soul anymore.

05:16They've been terrible.

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