Dreger on Canucks' Higgins, Penguins' Rutherford, trade possibilities
/Darren Dreger was on Vancouver’s TSN 1040 on Tuesday morning.
On if the Canucks might explore trading Chris Higgins:
“Yeah, I don’t know that they’re willing to part with him, but would there be interest? Sure there would. Again, those depth forwards – guys that can move up and down your lineup are always valuable. Always valuable. Particularly a guy like Higgins, who has a wealth of experience to go along with that.
“I talked to Jim Rutherford yesterday with Pittsburgh. He’s getting healthy now. Malkin’s good to go. It sounds like Ehrhoff and Comeau aren’t that far off. Probably next week. He’s made his deals in acquiring David Perron and Max Lapierre, but he’s still intrigued by the concept of adding another third-line player to play with Spaling and Sutter.
“Well, there’s not that many of those guys available, frankly. Daniel Winnik’s name from Toronto is always thrown out there. We’ve talked about Winnipeg already. So Higgins might check a few boxes, for sure.”
Source: TSN 1040/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey
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