Dreger on O'Reilly trade talk: Leafs' Nonis hasn't spoken to Avalanche in "over a month"

Darren Dreger was on Toronto’s TSN 1050 on Monday morning.

As part of a larger discussion on the Leafs:

“I had a brief chat with management this weekend. And we can speculate all we want on certain players. Ryan O’Reilly out of Colorado. Well, the information I have is that Nonis hasn’t spoken to the Colorado people in over a month, month and a half.

“And what’s the ticket for Ryan O’Reilly going to be? $6.5 million-plus? And now you’re looking at David Clarkson and others who you’re paying premium dollars for and going, ‘We can’t miss. We can’t miss. We like Ryan O’Reilly. We think he’s a heck of a hockey player.’ But at that kind of change? You’d better be absolutely certain.

“And you’re looking for top line centres. You’re looking for a top-pairing D. The needs of this organization are fundamentally huge. And again, real tough to execute in-season.”

Source: TSN 1050/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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