Will the Latest Jersey Devils test the marketplace for Dougie Hamilton again before the deadline? Would a former team have an interest?
Flames Nation: Darren Dreger on Latest Jersey Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton and if he could possibly be moved.
“So I checked on Dougie Hamilton this morning, and I’m told that there’s nothing recent. And I asked, ‘okay, well, is there a greater likelihood now we’re every week outside the deadline that he doesn’t get moved?’ And the response that I got from an impeccable source was, ‘Well, you never say never.’ which I understand is a cliche, but there isn’t an appetite yet to push him out, right?
So teams know, yeah, Tom Fitzgerald is open to conversation and listening to offers, but there was nothing yet that moves the needle. You recognize, again, we’re every week out. Possibly things change.
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A dozen different agents, especially, have told me that, okay, we would see some stuff here. We’ve seen a few transactions thus far, but they felt like teams needed two, three games, possibly get to the weekend, after which possibly there’s more definition within the standings between the buyers and the sellers.
And possibly the sellers to that time go, ‘Okay, well, I’ve asked for an exorbitant return on player ‘X’, and I haven’t gotten so I’m going to wish to melt, because I don’t wish to get to Thursday night or Friday morning after which should get right into a chaotic situation. And so possibly that starts to show just a little bit as early as Sunday or Monday.
The Sheet with Jeff Marek: Greg Wyshynski and Jeff Marek wonder if Latest Jersey Devils defenseman Dougie Hamilton will get traded.
Wyshynski: “Last name I desired to mention is Dougie Hamilton. I mean, listen, the Devil, the Devil season is within the trash can at this point. They tried to trade Dougie. I mean, they’ve been attempting to trade Dougie. Then they couldn’t trade Dougie because Luke Hughes got hurt. Now, Luke Hughes is coming back this Saturday, most definitely (he did). Do you think that Dougie gets moved before next Friday?”
Marek: “I’d think that Tom Fitzgerald will definitely try. Do they really get it over the finish line? Don’t know. Don’t know. In the event you look how, in case you’re in search of, in case you’re in search of, like, a powerful shooting option from the purpose, because he’s, he still has those sweet, sweet one timers from the purpose. Then Dougie Hamilton. With retention, Greg?”
Wyshynski: “Oh, come on. It’s like, that’s, that’s guaranteed, that there’s gonna be retention.”
Marek: “With retention?”
Wyshynski: “I believe, I believe it’s like 50-50 they trade Dougie. And I ponder, what about Carolina? What a couple of reunion in Carolina for Dougie?”
Marek: “It’s not bad. You recognize how that organization feels, and the varieties of defensemen that they acquire, you’ve to be (a) skater. And in case you can think the sport well, in case you play on the Carolina Hurricanes, you’ve to give you the chance to think and think fast.”
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Wyshynski: “Yeah.”
Marek: “And it’s a difficult option to play.”
Wyshynski: “Dougie’s a thinker. He goes he goes to museums. You recognize that.”
Marek: “He goes to museums.”
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