Insider Trading: Petry on the market, but Habs not selling at a discount

TSN Hockey Insiders Darren Dreger, Chris Johnston and Pierre LeBrun join host James Duthie to discuss Jeff Petry’s potential availability in a trade, a team out there that’s looking to take on some salary to help facilitate deals and what could be next for pending unrestricted free agent Nazem Kadri.

What is the likelihood and conditions of a potential Jeff Petry trade?

LeBrun: Teams around the league are finding out that Jeff Petry is available as other people have talked about. Kent Hughes, the new general manager, spoke with a number of his veteran players over the past little while in one-to-one meetings to gauge where they are with the future of this team. And the sense is Jeff Petry would welcome a trade. Now, it’s not easy to move him. He’s got three more years on his deal at $6.25 million USD. One league source suggested a scenario to me today that the Dallas Stars could emerge as the team with interest. With the idea being that if the Stars move John Klingberg, who, as we know, has asked for a trade. They can turn around and replace him with Petry, who is signed with term and John Klingberg being a pending unrestricted free agent. Now, the one thing that the Habs are telling teams? They don’t have to move Petry and they’re not moving him at a discount just because he’s struggling this season. Teams have to step up.

The Blackhawks are using Patrick Sharp, Marian Hossa and Eddie Olczyk to help in their search for a general manager, which is a bit of an outside the box way of doing things. Could that lead to an outside the box hire?

Dreger: Yeah, it could. There’s no doubt about that. I mean, there are some huge foundational decisions that have to be made by the new hockey operations department of the Chicago