Speculation: List of players that a team has been verifiably linked to?

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

Posts saying "team name - player", "I think so-and-so said a few months back...", or "it has been reported" completely defeat the point of this thread

Seriously...not a single source has been linked lol.

And, speculation from Friedman or anybody else does not count.

 

[uncleben]

Been threads on this site for all of these with sources listed.

The whole point of this thread is to consolidate them in one place so that readers don't have to go chasing them...

 

[Liferleafer]

Seriously...not a single source has been linked lol.

And, speculation from Friedman or anybody else does not count.

Well, unless actual NHL GMs have accounts on this site....what else do we have to go with....my sister's boyfriend's cousin who cleans the crappers at Scotiabank Arena?

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

Well, unless actual NHL GMs have accounts on this site....what else do we have to go with....my sister's boyfriend's cousin who cleans the crappers at Scotiabank Arena?

If Friedman says “I have heard Toronto is interested in Adam McQuaid”, that works.

If Friedman says “Kyle Dubas was eating pizza with Bryan Murray at the Honda Center, I would guess he is interested in Montour”, that does not mean anything. That’s speculation.

 

[Lunatik]

Seriously...not a single source has been linked lol.

And, speculation from Friedman or anybody else does not count.

No one is going to go back and search for links. You might get links for new information, but it's a waste of people's time to go back and seek these links

 

[Whileee]

I think the thread title should be... "List of players that a team has been speculatively linked to?"

 

[aufheben]

No one is going to go back and search for links. You might get links for new information, but it's a waste of people's time to go back and seek these links

I googled “brassard sharks” and a source was the first search result.

 

[Btown]

-Clifford
-Simmonds
-Gudas
-Faulk
-Pesce
-McQuaid
-Montour

All guys that have been reported to be of interest in Toronto recently.

Hate to admit it but McQuaid would be a perfect fit for the Leafers and cheap.

 

[Taluss]

would this be considered a source although they are not verified?

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

would this be considered a source although they are not verified?

Yes, Larry Brooks is considered a reliable source.

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

Okay, I did some research and found a few of these but I didn't look too hard. Speculation doesn't count. I've updated the OP with the ones that I've seen and that I can confirm as reliable.

 

[Wingsfan 4 life]

Of course its only Dreger linking Rick Nash to those teams.

 

[DJB]

If Friedman says “I have heard Toronto is interested in Adam McQuaid”, that works.

If Friedman says “Kyle Dubas was eating pizza with Bryan Murray at the Honda Center, I would guess he is interested in Montour”, that does not mean anything. That’s speculation.

Ouch. RIP

 

[allsilverdreams]

Sabres linked to Wennberg

 

[indigobuffalo]

-Clifford
-Simmonds
-Gudas
-Faulk
-Pesce
-McQuaid
-Montour

All guys that have been reported to be of interest in Toronto recently.

McQuaid, Simmonds, and Gudas were only speculated by derpy spin artists like Simmons because the Leafs aren’t tuff enuff.

 

[Tatre]

Sabres linked to Wennberg

That source is notoriously unreliable

 

[jrgtml67]

I thought this would be a cool idea for the deadline. Sometimes we don't know what a certain team is interested in, or we hear from an unreliable source that a team is interested in a certain player, and it gets regurgitated to the point where we think it might have actually been reported by a reliable source.

So, feel free to post whatever players your team has been (recently) linked to. And only real links, so something like Elliott Friedman speculating that Toronto would probably want Brandon Montour doesn't count. And for the sake of fun, feel free add what you think your team's needs are and whether or not they will buy or sell. I'll try to keep it in a clear, concise spreadsheet up in this post.

For example, from San Jose:



- Wayne Simmonds, Mats Zuccarello, Marcus Johansson (Freidman's 31 thoughts)
- Derick Brassard (John Shannon)
- Rick Nash (Darren Dreger)

UPDATED LIST:​

Team	Player	Source
Boston	Rick Nash	Darren Dreger
Boston	Wayne Simmonds	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Boston	Mats Zuccarello	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Boston	Mark Stone	Larry Brooks
Buffalo	Carl Hagelin	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Calgary	Wayne Simmonds	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Calgary	Mats Zuccarello	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Columbus	Derick Brassard	John Shannon
Columbus	Rick Nash	Darren Dreger
Columbus	Matt Duchene	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Columbus	Marcus Johansson	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Dallas	Artemi Panarin	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Dallas	Mats Zuccarello	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Edmonton	Marcus Johansson	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Nashville	Matt Duchene	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Pittsburgh	Brandon Montour	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Pittsburgh	Rick Nash	Darren Dreger
Pittsburgh	Michael Ferland	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
San Jose	Wayne Simmonds	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
San Jose	Marcus Johansson	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
San Jose	Mats Zuccarello	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
San Jose	Derick Brassard	John Shannon
San Jose	Rick Nash	Darren Dreger
San Jose	Ryan Miller	John Hoven
Tampa Bay	Wayne Simmonds	Steve Simmons
Toronto	Kyle Clifford	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Toronto	Rick Nash	Darren Dreger
Toronto	Wayne Simmonds	Steve Simmons
Vancouver	Andre Burakovsky	Chris Johnston
Vancouver	Marcus Johansson	Elliott Friedman's 31 Thoughts
Vegas	Mark Stone	Bruce Garrioch
Winnipeg	Mark Stone	Bruce Garrioch
Winnipeg	Derick Brassard	John Shannon

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Your missing a lot..montour Friedman and Kyper, Pesce Hamilton Ferland Mcquaid Hayes Krieder..and most of those mentioned were mentioned by multiple "insiders" as tied to leafs oh and gudas

 

[Paulinvancouver]

Teams will leak to the press exactly what they want them to hear. Only trades that matter are the ones that happen.

 

[JoeThorntonsRooster]

Your missing a lot..montour Friedman and Kyper, Pesce Hamilton Ferland Mcquaid Hayes Krieder..and most of those mentioned were mentioned by multiple "insiders" as tied to leafs oh and gudas

I haven't seen any of those guys mentioned by reliable sources. Insiders speculating and chatting about who would be a good fit is not the same as them saying that a certain team has interest in a certain player. If you think I've missed somebody, go ahead and post the source.

Teams will leak to the press exactly what they want them to hear. Only trades that matter are the ones that happen.

Right, and if a team leaks something to the press, it probably tells us something about their intentions.

 

[typicalsavage]

Hate to admit it but McQuaid would be a perfect fit for the Leafers and cheap.

Hainsey, McQuaid and Zaitsev on the team at once would be awfully bad idk how anyone could think thats a good idea.

 

[Btown]

Hainsey, McQuaid and Zaitsev on the team at once would be awfully bad idk how anyone could think thats a good idea.

It’s easy u replace one of TO’s craptastic bottom pairing guys for Quader.
Brings experience and toughness that the others don’t.

 

[Mick Jagr]

So basically the same 4 or 5 players linked to every team... lol

 

[Riverfront]

leafs will land Collin miller . No one has mentioned him linked to the Leafs

 

[Beezer]

What, no Florida link to Panarin/Bob? Or would that be considered tampering at this point?