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Dan’s Daily Links: The First Big Trade, Scouts Descend on Pens-Devils
And here were go. The first big trades of the trade deadline season dropped yesterday and both were defensemen. The Pittsburgh Penguins and GM Jim Rutherford began the show by dealing Jamie Oleksiak back to Dallas. Later Monday night, Toronto pulled off a much-needed deal for Jake Muzzin. It was more than much-needed, it may be season-changing. Artemi Panarin is dangling the Blue Jackets, too.
First, the Oleksiak news and analysis (Pittsburgh Hockey Now)
The Penguins undersold Oleksiak. Why?
Toronto Snags Muzzin (NHL.com)
And a good read why Toronto needed Muzzin (Editor in Leaf)
Did you ever meet a person who strung you along? Columbus, meet Artemi. Artemi, Columbus. If Columbus blindly hangs onto the Bread Man hoping he will re-sign, they’re wearing rose-colored glasses (Columbus Dispatch)
I’ve debated and discussed sharing a link to an Olli Maatta trade report in the French-Canadian media. We won’t. We can’t verify it’s authenticity. We can’t tell if its bloggers having fun or the source is legit. But, it’s out there. The moment we get someone to vouch for the writer, we’ll put it up.
There were 13 teams and 14 scouts in attendance at the Penguins game last night, including Montreal (Pittsburgh Hockey Now)
Our apologies. We originally missed a large contingent of the scouts as there were so many the Penguins made two sections.
Elliotte Friedman drops a BIG hint about the Flyers plans beyond Wayne Simmonds. Sean Couturier? (Nichols on Hockey)
Frank Seravalli seemed to pour cold water on the Winnipeg Jets and Derick Brassard talk. This fits more with the tone of yesterday that the Jets don’t like the price (TSN)
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Dan I think most of us know or have seen what your talking about with Maatta, his name was on the Minnesota Wild line up several days ago. It’s been posted like you said nobody knows if it’s legitimate or not. It’s no secret
To profit from a source we can’t verify as legit is where I draw the line. I could link to garbage on the net all day but I’d like to think our daily links are trusted.
Maattas name was in the Minnesota Wild lineup it was posted already most believe it was fake but it’s no secret
Yeah I get it just saying wether garage or not most know what you are referring too that’s all.