Interest Heating Up on Calgary Flames Defenseman Rasmus Andersson
Elliotte Friedman on the Monday edition of the 32 Thoughts Podcast on Sportsnet was asked by Kyle Bukauskas concerning the Calgary Flames and the newest on defenseman Rasmus Andersson.
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Kyle Bukauskas: “That gets us to Calgary and one other defenseman in query, and Rasmus Andersson. In order that conversation has been there at times this 12 months Elliotte, but probably hasn’t been as loud because it might have been, partly because Andersson’s played pretty much this 12 months, and the team began to win rather a lot more in December. In order that calms things down here.
But the top of the day, it is a player whose contract is up this 12 months. I’m going back to the Euro Tour after we were over in Milan for a couple of days in August, and Mikael Backlund had the quote, the captain saying, well, he’s going to be traded. Everyone knows that, as in the event that they were bracing themselves for what’s going to be happening with one in every of their longest tenured players, anything recent on the Andersson and Calgary front?”
Elliotte Friedman: “The one thing I’d just say that I’ve heard recent, and I sort of heard this a bit of bit on Sunday, is that it does look like Calgary is getting a bit of bit more aggressive in attempting to do something. I believe there it feels like there’s a desire for them to do it before the Olympics, and teams know that.
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Now, there’s been stops and starts with this before, so I’m all the time careful. But there are occasions it seems more lively than other times, and one in every of those times is now. Like, for those who take a have a look at Andersson’s game log, he’s playing a ton of minutes, and to his credit, he’s played extremely well this 12 months.
Like, there’s been quite a few times I’ve watched him, and I’ve been very impressed, but Kyle, you return, and also you look, he played 25 minutes within the win over Pittsburgh. He played 24 within the loss to Boston. He played 26 at home against Nashville. He had one other 26-minute game right back after Christmas and in the large win over Edmonton.
Like he’s playing rather a lot, like there are not any nights off for this guy. Like I’m just looking, I believe the bottom amount of minutes I’ve seen the guy play anywhere on my screen here is 22:40. I see a 22:28, but that’s an additional time win in LA. But it is a guy playing plenty of minutes, and he’s going to play big minutes for Sweden on the Olympics.
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But like I said, I heard that there’s been some increased activity around him, and I believe teams know the Flames are in a window where they would really like to act potentially before the Olympic Games. It’s interesting. There was a report on social on the weekend that there was something with Detroit. I don’t know.
The one thing about that’s that we talked about with Quinn Hughes. Like Hughes desired to go to the Red Wings. They were one in every of the teams that he was very excited about. But Steve Yzerman wasn’t doing that without an extension. So I’d should think that Detroit would should know what Andersson would sign for before they might try this.
So and Yzerman is such a vault, it’s difficult to get a handle on what he’s actually as much as. I don’t know. I didn’t get the sense that anything was that close. I just heard that the noise was starting to select up. And I do think there are teams that may be excited about extending Andersson, just, I don’t get the sense anybody has permission yet to discuss with him about it, however the noise is there.
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The noise is unquestionably picked up. And, obviously there’s been plenty of interest in Andersson up to now. The Kings have it, and I still think Vegas is on the lookout for one other defenseman. Big win, big weekend for them. They beat St. Louis. They beat San Jose, as we mentioned. But I still think the Kings are on the lookout for one other defenseman. And I wouldn’t be surprised in the event that they were circling around Andersson, too.”
NHLRumors.com Note: The Calgary Flames are attending to the purpose of selling, but when is the query. It may very well be soon. However the query is, what’s going to teams be willing to provide as much as get him? Despite the distraction, Andersson has played well. Nothing is off the table, but while the Flames should want to get this done early, others should want to see what happens to him on the Olympics.
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