Friedman on Myers, Kane, Canucks, Kings, Red Wings, Flames

Elliotte Friedman was on Calgary’s Sportsnet 960 on Thursday afternoon.

As part of a larger conversation on the blockbuster trade between the Buffalo Sabres and Winnipeg Jets:

"I definitely believe that Buffalo asked other teams for more than that, but I don’t think anybody was willing to do it.

“I was with Vancouver yesterday in Chicago. I got the sense that the Canucks – they were in it, but it was really half-hearted. They weren’t including Horvat. They weren’t including Virtanen. They weren’t including Jared McCann, who’s a young defenceman they’ve got. When they saw what Buffalo traded, their reaction was, ‘We weren’t even in the same ballpark.’

“The Kings were involved at some point with Myers. Buffalo asked I think for Toffoli, or to be included, and they’re like, ‘We’re not doing that.’

“Detroit, we know that they had asked for either Anthony Mantha and Dylan Larkin, and Detroit was, ‘We’re not doing that.’

“Now Calgary – from what I’ve heard, and I haven’t spoken to Brad Treliving, but from what I’ve heard – Calgary was in on both Myers and Kane. They’d let them know we would like to be involved. But I think the ask for both teams was very similar. It was one of Bennett and Monahan, plus. And I’m sure they probably asked for both because you can’t shoot a team for asking. But it was one of those two guys, plus more. And the Flames just aren’t going to do that. And you can’t blame them, because when you trade a centre, what’s the next thing you’re saying? ‘We need a centre.’ And I just don’t think Calgary was going to do it if it was going to cost them Sam Bennett or Sean Monahan.”

Source: Sportsnet 960/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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