LeBrun: Oilers' MacTavish exploring trades with multiple teams
/Pierre LeBrun was on Edmonton’s TSN 1260 on Monday afternoon.
On the Columbus Blue Jackets losing Artem Anisimov, who was linked to David Perron in trade talks, for several months due to injury:
“Yeah, I mean I don’t know. At the end of the day, there were other names involved in those talks with Columbus and there are other teams the Oilers have been talking to as well. So it’s sort of – there’s a lot of moving targets here and why there hasn’t been a trade quite yet – I mean, obviously the Oilers haven’t been able to find that fit.
“But you’ve got to be careful here. I know that talking to GMs over the years, you hate making a trade when you’re at your lowest. Because it’s not a position of strength. It often can lead to the type of move that in retrospect looks like a panic move. So you’ve got to be careful.
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“The one thing you can do during this period when the team is last in the league like this, until they start winning games, you can bring conversations far enough along – and this is something you see often – that when the glare is off and the team wins a few games and people aren’t quite expecting something, then you can go back and finish some of those conversations you’ve brought pretty far down the road with other teams. And that’s something you see often. You’ll see a team finish a trade that actually started two months ago, but kind of got put on the, ‘Let’s let this simmer, revisit it. Let’s see where your team is and our team is.’ And certainly, I think the Oilers have at least done that over the last few weeks in terms of the conversations they’ve had.”
Source: TSN 1260/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey
