LeBrun: Canucks have "laid down some groundwork" on trades

Pierre LeBrun was on Vancouver’s TSN 1040 on Monday morning.

On trade talk involving the Vancouver Canucks:

“Well, I’ve certainly heard that they were talking to teams before the roster freeze, but I didn’t get the sense that anything was imminent. In fact, I don’t think anything was.

"I do think one of the reasons you’ve heard different things from different corners... is that Jim Benning was on the phone with a number of teams just to see where they’re at and what they’d be willing to do. And sometimes it’s within these phone calls that happen this early, that actually things transpire closer to March 2, right? Trades don’t just happen out of the blue. A lot of the groundwork is done way ahead of time in terms of knowing how far teams are willing to go on a certain player and certain conversations. That’s what you do as a GM – you set the stage on many different fronts, so that when it is time to react when you don’t have a lot of time on the clock, a lot of the work has been done on different fronts. So I think the Canucks have laid down some groundwork on a couple of different fronts, for sure.”

Source: TSN 1040/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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