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Originally Posted by Blah_Teggie
All these so-called hockey writers are full of shit. They say the teams Kovy could potentially go to are Boston, LA, NYR, Philly and even Vancouver. Never did I hear any of them mention NJ. Reading the paper today, apparantely the Atlanta GM has been talking to the NJ GM for days and yet nobody knows about it. Do writers just make up teams cuz they have a guy who wants out (eg Jack Johnson from LA) so is that why LA is the running or is it actually based on fact?
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no actually alot of them say NJ was involved, just not a big player
take it for example, ATL wanted a young prospect/NHL ready, and out of all the mentioned teams above, there was no way players such as Marc Staal, Mike Del Zotto, Giroux or Wayne Simmonds will be moved from their respected clubs.
Alot of the writers that reported on the Kovalchuk sweepstakes are well reported. They choose not to write about this until Kovalchuk rejected the first offer. The only "writer" who chose to shove the subject down our throats is Eklund from
www.hockeybuzz.com. Eklund constantly wrote that the said teams were interested, so they were always in the running. The issue with Eklund is that his "sources" are many of his friends from around hte league who choose to remain annomynous, which throws his already terrible reputation down the drain. If anyone remembers, there was a year where he was on Sportsnet for Trade Deadline. He reported that Ryan Smyth has signed a contract extension worth X amount of dollars for 4years, and he CONFIRMEd it so Snet reported it. Two minutes later on TSN and everywhere else, Ryan Smyth gets traded to the islanders. and you could see, that Darren Dreger's face. It was red to the bone and embarrased. He left the network afterwards to save his own credibility.