A look at how some NHL coaches navigate the looming trade deadline
Global News
General managers are working the phones with the league's trade deadline set for Monday at 3 p.m. ET, but coaches also have a job to do navigating emotions.
Bruce Boudreau was running a recent practice when one of his players skated over for a chat.
The Vancouver Canucks head coach assumed winger Conor Garland was going to ask him about trade speculation.
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It is, after all, that period in every NHL season when chatter runs rampant as teams look to either load up or rebuild ahead of the looming deadline.
“I thought, ‘Uh oh, he’s gonna ask me about rumours,”’ Boudreau recalled. “He didn’t, we talked about a hockey play. There’s been nothing said.
“They’re either keeping it all bottled up or it’s not bothering them.”
General managers are working the phones with the league’s trade deadline set for Monday at 3 p.m. ET, but coaches also have a job to do navigating emotions, players potentially on edge, and getting their current rosters ready for games as the clock ticks down.
“The media thinks every Canuck player’s getting traded,” Boudreau added. “Honest to God’s truth we haven’t had one word said by me about it, and not one player’s come up to me.”
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