Darnell Nurse is sticking to his three-team list so far? Can the Edmonton Oilers get him to expand his list?
Oilers Now with Bob Stauffer: Brian Lawton when asked about the Edmonton Oilers trying to get Darnell Nurse to expand his list for teams he’s willing to get traded to. What happens if things drag on?
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Bob Stauffer: “Cause you’ve been in both chairs as a GM. Is there a way you can facilitate him to move and expand that list? And conversely, is there a way the agency, Paul Capizzano from Cortex, is there a way the agency can perhaps, you know, are they in a job of protecting that for just the three teams, or do they need to look at expanding the list. You know, because a year from now that list is 10 teams.
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Lawton: “That’s right, and that’s, that is the one key point that makes it possible. I have not spoken to Darnell Nurse. I don’t know if he would consider that or not.
But you know when a player gets into this position where they start to envision themselves somewhere else, it’s not difficult because the players wouldn’t accept him. The players, the players understand it’s a business more than ever. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen something and people say, “Oh, I wouldn’t want to go back in that room now.”
Even for Dylan Larkin, someone brought it up, because it’s out of his control with Steve Yzerman. And Steve Yzerman has made it blatantly clear, “I’ll do what I can do, but I make no promises.” There’s another level after that. I hope that doesn’t come to fruition for anybody, because it can get ugly. And getting ugly would look like a player like Dylan Larkin, and I’m not saying Dylan would ever do this, but you know, he has some remedies too. They’re not great, though. They just have to do with not playing. ‘I’ll wait it out. I really want to be traded.’
I’ve been down that route before. You better have a lot of confidence in your clients if you’re going to go down that route, because it can get ugly and go sideways really fast.
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In Darnell’s case, I don’t see that happening. I would see management going back and having open discussions with him. This is something that appears to be mutual at this stage. Meaning it’s in the best interest for everyone that eventually a transaction does happen. And because of that reason,
I know that I would certainly not hesitate to have conversations with the player about that.”
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