Pierre LeBrun
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The National Predators in last place in the West, they are open to listening on their veteran players depending on who it is.
The St.
Louis Blues were the first team to tell teams they were open for business a number of weeks ago, although not a whole lot has happened since then.
So it depends on the team, honestly.
I mean, Dregs may have a different answer than me, but when news surfaced that the Blues were quote-unquote open for business, there were a lot of team executives that I talked to that weekend that said, well, I think that's Doug Armstrong just trying to send a message to his team, trying to wake them up again like he's done in the past.
Although I do think...
They'd be open to doing different things.
I think the Canucks, Patrick Alvin, sent a note to, you know, in the GM's group chat saying we'd listen on our pending UFAs.
I think that was pretty straightforward.
But to answer your question, though, I think there are some teams that kind of say that and want their players to find out about that.
Whereas there are other teams where it's a very genuine thing where they're like, let's...
If you guys have interest, let's start these discussions now because it takes a while to make a trade fit and then make it materialize.
I can add to that.
Sorry, Brian.
The dilemma is so fascinating to me for Vancouver.
The priority remains, as Greg said, is to sign Quinn Hughes if they can.
Duh.
I mean, he's the franchise, one of the greatest players ever to play.
They can't sign him until July 1st.
But...