Would the Penguins and Blue Jackets be considering Maple Leafs Nick Robertson?
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman on the 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – The Mid Summer Check In episode on Toronto Maple Leafs forward Nick Robertson. What in regards to the trade possibilities with the Pittsburgh Penguins or Columbus Blue Jackets?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
You already know, also with Pittsburgh, you already know Nick, Nick Robertson. I had a pair people ask me about the potential for Nick Robertson in Pittsburgh, simply because, obviously, Kyle Dubas knows him.
They got the arbitration settled on Saturday at $1.825 million. You already know, the Maple Leafs need to clear some bodies there. They’ve got a whole lot of them.
I had one Columbus fan asked me if (Yegor) Chinakhov for Robertson made sense. I don’t know. I feel Toronto would need to do more to get that done.
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I mean, I feel, I definitely think that the Maple Leafs have work to do here, and I don’t know what their timeline is, but no person expects them to not do things before puck drops, that’s needless to say.
Matthew Tkachuk likely will start the season injured, which could save Evan Rodrigues for now
Sportsnet: Elliotte Friedman and Kyle Bukauskas on the 32 Thoughts: The Podcast – The Mid Summer Check In episode on Florida Panthers forward Matthew Tkachuk’s injuries and Evan Rodrigues trade speculation.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bukauskas: “Okay, well, how about what’s happening with Matthew Tkachuk, Elliotte? He’s had pretty rattling good summer up to now. Got married, great day with the Stanley Cup for a second straight summer. However the health front, I mean, you revealed what he had been playing through and what kept them out in between the 4 Nations and the beginning of the playoffs, what does the trail appear to be for him by way of having the ability to suit up next season?
Friedman: “Yeah, you already know, I feel that quite a lot of fans have wondered if Florida would need to trade someone like Evan Rodrigues off their roster to make things work. I don’t consider that’s going to be happening.
Initially, they consider Rodrigues a very necessary player. But secondly, I feel we’re going to search out out sooner or later here that Tkachuck will miss the beginning of the season.
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I feel he’ll be back in time for the Olympics. Obviously, that’s an enormous deal for him, and it was all the time going to be arrange that way. But I feel he’s going to miss start of the 12 months and a bit of time after that. I don’t know what the timeline goes to be, nevertheless it’s, it’s going to be something like that.
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