Sunday, November 04, 2007

Canucks listening to Naslund offers?

These following rumours are courtesy of Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun:

The Vancouver Canucks aren't looking to move Markus Naslund, but GM David Nonis is listening to offers. He'd like to make a move to shake up his team and bring in a quality blueliner with defensemen Sami Salo, Kevin Bieksa and Lukas Krajicek all injured.

The Ottawa Senators have been shopping Joe Corvo all summer, but has not gotten any offers. Garrioch hints that the Canucks may be interested.

The Edmonton Oilers would like to move Raffi Torres. The Columbus Blue Jackets and Oilers have been talking, but neither have each other's needs.

Ducks GM Brian Burke will try to get the NHL to study a proposal that will allow teams to pick up a portion of a player's salary to facilitate more trades. While Burke tried a similar move last year with a per-transaction cap of $2 million and a per-team cap of $4 million, it didn't fly. It's believed he has lowered the amount this year to $500,000 per transaction and several GMs are on board.

Various reports in Boston indicate that Patrice Bergeron could be out for the season. According to Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli, Bergeron came within an "inch" of being paralyzed.

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