Dreger: Leafs weren't "aggressive" on Reimer trade front
/Darren Dreger was on TSN 1050 Thursday evening.
On how aggressively the Leafs tried to trade James Reimer over the summer:
“Not aggressively Dave, to be honest. Their interest was in signing him, but the agent through James Reimer, of course, and his input wanted him to at least explore the opportunity of trade. And they did that.
“I don’t know exactly what the asking price was for Reimer, but I know that it never was close to being met. And there wasn’t a ton of interest, which really isn’t an indictment on his play. But it was a bit of a bizarre goalie market to say the least, especially when you look at where Reimer likely would have been – which would have been a backup. And that wouldn’t have solved his issue anyway, because the reason he wanted out of Toronto was a better opportunity to become a starter.
“But every time I checked in on it, there was some interest; but nothing that the Leafs were considering.”
Source: TSN 1050/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey