According to Dmitry Chesnokov's Twitter (@dchesnokov a must follow) the Capitals are possibly working on a trade that would send a forward away for a d-man. Dmitry added it may be a forward who was recently a healthy scratch leading many to speculate the name to be Fleischman.

So after some digging...a lot of smoke and fire to this.

Rumors swirled about the Kings of course...I heard Green's name mentioned...but the Kings wouldn't take Fleischman for Green...who is a very important player as far as team leaders go..

As we have been saying for a while, the Caps want a big-time defenseman and know it would take more than Fleischman to get the return they need and are willing to wait until the deadline to get it done..(Possibly Souray, who is on loan to Hershey, the Caps farm team. But why pay Souray's year salary when you are in the playoffs and you need him then.

My sources tell me much of this may be preliminary talk regarding the Kings MAIN target, Alexander Semin. It is not uncommon for teams to explore smaller trades while discussing larger ones...This almost happened last year in the Phaneuf deal..

I have not heard Bieksa and the Caps in my conversations since the summer.

I still believe we will see either Bieksa or Salo sent to Montreal eventually .

More to come...

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