Eklund: Rumors and Notes on Marchand, Jones, Nelson, Marner, Binnington, and more

We just got Blackwood and signed him to 5 year deal. Binnington is not coming here

Avalanche Defence isnt stacked, Manson and whoever is the 5th/6th Dman are not bringing the cup back to Denver. Trades will be made for the Avs and it won't be for Gibson or Binnington as they already made trades for 2 goalies this year.... may want to get better sources

Dude, sources are irelevant - click bait is what matters.

My inside sources say Eklund is full of it. Binnington isn’t going to Colorado. We have other needs and goalie isn’t one of them

Blackwood sporting 2.13 GAA and .922 save %. Seems to me they would have other priorities.

Binnington may end up in Toronto, he’s an Ontario boy and loves the Leafs. He’s not going to a western team , Army isn’t that stupid. Carolina would be the best place for him in my opinion. The Blues should move him , they have to let Hofer start the new phase .

When are you going to update the rumor chart?

Binnington was just ok, really! I’m mean sure in the final he played well and made big saves, but he still scares me!
Marner, yeah ok, after July he will want to be paid probably $13mil. That would make him the highest paid player on the Canadian team, and he was a third liner…..and bumped off the third line for at least a couple of shifts. He was invisible for most of the tourney! He was not McKinnon, no Sid, no Tkachuk, Makar!! I mean seriously the list goes on, of guys that were more consequential than him! Let him walk.

When you look at the tourney as a whole, all Leaf players were mediocre! And they were some of the top paid players in the tourney! And Leafs wonder why they can’t win in the playoffs.

I'm not going to mention the Oilers cap room, but why on earth would Edmonton be interested in Zegras? They have plenty of guys who can score, what they could use is a solid defenseman. Now, if you would have said the Oilers are interested in Gibson and Dumoulin, then you would have a made up rumor that seems plausible and therefore give credence to actually having "sources".

Worst roomers I’ve seen here in awhile. Outside of the very public Jones and Nelson news the rest are quite ridiculous.

do you need a new Sabres blogger? Damn 5 weeks without a blog

Hey Ek, when will you get a Sabres blogger who will participate more than once a month? Maybe all of those people will come back to the site if you do.

It's more like alot of teams would like the Ducks to trade Zegras and Gibson. But the Ducks wanna at least try to make the playoffs. Their is a chance that the Ducks might be buyers so selling good players is problem not happening.

Let's see, same headline for almost 2 days, two names added to rumor chart since October 29th, hey EK, I guess you are still leaning on the last presidential election too! Good thing for the NHL Network on TV and Sirus radio, I was starting to think that nothing has changed in hockey for the past 5 months!