Sens' Murray addresses trade deadline
/Fresh thoughts from Ottawa Senators GM Bryan Murray on the March 5 trade deadline, via the Senators' web site.
On his ideal trade target: "That's more what I'm looking at than anything really — if I can make the right deal to get a guy that has played in the league, has a little term in his contract, that we would get a chance to get to know and he'd get a chance to get to know us and then maybe you'd get to keep him around, that's the ideal thing for me."
On potentially trading his own UFAs: "Well that's the question we're going through every day now. I've asked the coaches, I've asked our staff — are we legitimate to take a run at a playoff spot? If we are, why would I do that? I see teams acquiring unrestricted free agents and paying a fairly big price to stay in the race and that's one of the questions asked of me all the time. If I have guys that we like that are unrestricted in the summer we may just stick with them, finish the year and make the decision at that point."
On acquiring another team's UFAs: "Well I think that's the whole thing. What's the price a team like us would pay for an unrestricted guy that would come in here, play 20 games and in all likelihood move on. It's a dilemma and a consideration and something we are talking about daily. I've talked to some GMs and we'll evaluate each individual case as it comes along, if it does come along, and hopefully make the right decisions."