“We touched on this after the trade deadline, I’ve mentioned it a few times: Nurse’s name was out there the week of the deadline. They offered him up to at least one team, that team said no, that team now has a new general manager. That team probably won’t go in that direction, they didn’t want to go in that direction before with the previous guy. I can’t imagine new guy wanting to do that. One of the other pieces part of that deal that Edmonton was looking at, from what I was told, he’s on Colorado right now.

“Edmonton spoke to Toronto ahead of the deadline to try to make that happen, obviously it didn’t, and it was really that close at the time, from what I was told. His name was circulating. They spoke to the Leafs, that didn’t happen. We’ll see where that kind of goes.”

“They’re not moving Nurse to free up $9.25 million. That’s not happening… If you’re moving him out, even if you’re retaining a little bit, you’re doing so with the hope of freeing up a few million to give yourself more flexibility.”

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