In an article by Chris Nichols published today for Today’s Slapshot, he writes of Bob McKenzie’s response to the question will Bolts GM Steve Yzerman trade Nikita Kucherov:
“Well, he won’t be available,” said a blunt McKenzie when asked on Montreal’s TSN 690 Wednesday morning. “Steve Yzerman is not, I don’t believe, going to make a conscious decision to trade him. Because I think of all of those guys, some of them that he signed recently like Killorn – we’ll keep Hedman out of the equation because he’s a lynchpin on defense – but when you’ve got all of those guys… Palat is up next year, Tyler Johnson is up next year, you’ve got Killorn. Let’s be honest. The guys that you would think Steve Yzerman would be most interested in moving are guys like Val Filppula and some of the other guys up front, not Kucherov.
McKenzie also stated that if someone called Yzerman and asked about a trade:
“… I think if anybody called up and said to Steve Yzerman, ‘Hey, I’d like to talk to you about a Kucherov deal,’ he’s like, ‘Yeah, no thanks.’
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