Dater: Where There's Smoke...Kadri/Nichushkin Deal Is Possible

What I'm hearing

Well, I don’t blame people for suffering a sprained neck by looking at my Twitter feed in the last 18 or so hours. Last night, I tweeted that I was hearing Valeri Nichushkin might be in play as an Avs trade piece. This afternoon, I tweeted that I doubt No. 13 will be traded, after talking with a couple people. And then…woosh, I got a couple texts from people I trust saying a Nichushkin-Nazem Kadri deal is in deeper discussions than even I thought before.

So, what the hell is going on Dater? My latest information is this, and, yes, the paywall is going up here now, because this is a site for paid subscribers, and I’m loyal to them most of all these days: