With a mid-afternoon start today, let’s start with an interesting comment from another general manager on the NHL’s XM radio station. Bill Armstrong hopped on with my buddies from The Fourth Period on the “Hot Stove” show and said he thinks trade activity is going to pick up sooner than later, and January might see a fair amount of action around the league before the long break for the 4 Nations Face-Off in February.
With the Blackhawks starting to bring up young players like Colton Dach now, and having guys like Landon Slaggert looking ready in Rockford and plenty of veterans in the final/only years of their respective contracts, we might have a busier month than simply waiting for the trade deadline in early March. So stay tuned, Blackhawks fans…
- Yesterday I wrote about the Canucks reportedly shopping one/both of their top centers, JT Miller and Elias Pettersson. Elliotte Friedman threw the Blackhawks’ in the ring as a team that should be interested. On Saturday night when he updated a few of his headlines on SportsNet, Freidman said not only are the Canucks preparing for the possibility of trading one or both (or…
