more to come.

From earlier:

There's a new #1 in town,

Just a quick hit here...Tomas Kaberle looks likely to return Saturday to the line-up. This is a VERY important step to show possible teams that he is indeed ready to play again...Brian Burke still sticks to the statement that he is unlikely to be traded unless a team is willing to truly pay fair value or even "overpay."

Tomas Kaberle is now #1 on the NHL Trade Rumor Chart, unseating the previously unseated Nik Antropov as the most tradeable and most likely to be traded player in the NHL based on a computer generated number that factors in a dozen changing factors on a nightly basis.

Updated: I have confirmed that there is nothing to the current Kaberle to Buffalo rumors and to this point Buffalo and Toronto have not discussed him....It is also very clear that the only way Tomas Kaberle gets moved is if someone comes in and blows Burke away...which makes sense given he is the best player that could available.

Phil Kessel on the Move?

There are also rumors that the Bruins are possibly considering moving Phil Kessel in a deal. Perhaps to free up cap space to bring in a defenseman or a bigger power forward...

EKLUND'S NOTE: (hat tip to my RSS feeder, the twitter hash #nhltrade, and Aki Berg) Welcome to the 2008 trade deadline. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN PEOPLE. The Rumour Mongers out there will tell you that he will get Jay Bo and Horton out of Boston and that Kessel is "almost" a cool name and all, but the fact remains that last season Phil was VERY available and offered up to probably ten teams who all questioned his ability to be coached and whether or not his offensive upside would outweigh the fact that he hadn't seen his own zone since 2002. I wrote a blog last year regarding the fact that people needed to wait on Kessel. The Bruins did and they have been rewarded. Not happening. Put away your, "Trade (Phil) in the Blanks" T-shirts.

(note to the note above: The above was in the form of a Parody, and is actually an homage to the man who was the first to put hockey rumors on the internet an analyze them. The Great Spector)

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