Donnie & Dhali: Dallas Stars defenseman Chris Tanev when asked if he’d consider the Vancouver Canucks if he goes to free agency on July 1st and if it’s hard to deal with the now when he has some big decisions coming within the offseason.
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Rick Dhaliwal: “Hey Chris, the Canucks were one among the teams that attempted to get you on the deadline. Should you hit July 1st, I won’t be shocked if they fight to get you again. Should you do go to July 1, would Vancouver be a team that you just would take into consideration?
Tanev: “Truthfully, without delay I’m just focused on being a Dallas Star and check out to assist this team win. We now have an awesome group. We’re, we’re playing well without delay and that’s my, my only goal without delay.
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Don Taylor: “Is that tough to do Chris? As a pair of men who aren’t within the National Hockey League, is that tough to do, to deal with hockey when you could have such an enormous decision just across the corner?
Tanev: “I mean, you concentrate on it a bit, but I mean, you are trying to live within the moment and may be present and revel in playing hockey. And I’m having, having an awesome (line goes quiet) to this point in Dallas. In order I said, the team, team’s incredible from on and, on and off the ice how they’ve treated me so it’s, it’s been, it’s been quite easy to regulate to all the things. So I’m very thankful for that.”
Donnie & Dhali: Thomas Drance when asked if he can see the Vancouver Canucks sign pending UFA defenseman Chris Tanev if he gets to free agency on July 1st.
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Don Taylor: “Chris Tanev was our guest earlier on this show. Are you able to envision, I do know there’s a whole lot of puzzle pieces that must get put in place here, but are you able to envision the Canucks signing Chris Tanev in the summertime as a UFA?
Drance: “Absolutely. I believe there’s, , a hearty appetite to bring Chris Tanev into this locker room if that’s in any respect possible, feasible and realistic given the parameters of this club’s cap situation.
You realize, club chased him on the deadline. No secret about it. Right? They desired to add him now. You see the returns for the Stars. I mean, he’s been an enormous boost to a team that needed a presence like him on the blue line.
Canucks would like to have him in that room. They’d like to have him on the ice. There’s a whole lot of fans of Chris Tanev’s game, each among the many players and amongst Canucks management, , no doubt. Like no doubt Chris Tanev, and the potential of a reunion with this franchise, like that’s not a story that’s going away now.
Now, the marketplace for Tanev might get steamed to the purpose where it’s not something the club can realistically do. They won’t be the one team , hot and heavy in pursuit of this player. You’d actually think that a team just like the Toronto Maple Leafs, right, with General Manager and Brad Treliving that has had Chris Tanev have previously can be an interested club, right?
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Like, doesn’t take so much to attach those dots. You realize, no doubt. I believe that Canucks will, would like to re-add Tanev to this group. And why not? He never must have left.”
