Benning explains how close Canucks came on Kane trade
/Canucks GM Jim Benning was on Vancouver’s TSN 1040 on Thursday afternoon.
On how close he thinks he was on an Evander Kane trade:
"We were talking to Winnipeg, I was talking to Chevy. But when I was talking to him, it was more of a stand-alone. It was just Evander Kane. When it got to the point where there was multiple players involved, we weren’t in any sort of deal like that.
“Evander Kane, he’s a Vancouver boy. He grew up playing around here. He’s a good hockey player. So I wanted to make sure we did our due diligence and contacted him just to see if he could figure something out for him.
“He sent me a text Wednesday morning saying that he was involved in a bigger deal and that we were out. And it really did turn out to be a big deal, so we weren’t in it to the extent the deal he made.”
Source: TSN 1040/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey