McKenzie on Franson trade's impact on Petry's market value

Bob McKenzie was on Edmonton’s TSN 1260 on Monday morning.

On if Cody Franson being off the trade market now means the price will get driven up on Jeff Petry:

"I don’t know that the price will get driven up. Petry, as near as I can tell, has been – if you were to break down the rental defencemen into categories – he was in that sort of second tier. Teams were more interested in Franson and still in Andrej Sekera and Zbynek Michalek in Arizona. And that those guys were sort of higher in the pecking order than Petry, who has been available for quite some time.

“But each successive guy that goes, yeah, it starts to countdown more toward the point where Petry will be in play. Whether or not it drives the price up, I wouldn’t necessarily say there’s a direct line between the two. But, if all of those other guys do go before the deadline, you never know. If it becomes a bidding situation where more than one team wants him and he’s the only guy left, then yeah, I suppose the price might go up.

“But I think what you can reasonably expect to get is sort of a middle round pick, a third round pick, for Petry.”

Source: TSN 1260/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey

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