"That has led them to a point where, yes, #NYR have some talent that a lot of the teams around the league would like to have, but not talent that stands above what a lot of the teams around the league have."

#NYR are also 9-21 against teams in playoff position this season. 7 of their next 10 games are against playoffs teams, including the next 6 straight — WPG, MIN, CBJ, EDM, CGY, TOR.

This from the latest DFO Rundown podcast (10:55~): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"[It's] not a coincidence to me that Zac Jones played the most minutes of any #NYR on Sunday night against the Preds. That was a pure showcase opportunity. They're trying to move [him] ... #NYR are looking for a pretty decent asset in return."

Other center options named:

Ryan McLeod — "I've heard him come up."
Scott Laughton — "I heard #NYR poked around on him last year."
Ryan O'Reilly — "There's some appeal there but you continue to get older."

"I don't think the willingness of #NYR to trade [Kreider] has changed any ... but I will say he's probably headed in the other direction [down the trade board]."

"There's a bunch of teams going we don't know who's right, who's wrong. We have no ability to decipher that. This isn't anything we want to sink our teeth into to get a maybe this works for us, maybe it doesn't." #NYR #Canucks

"They did what they had to do with Trouba. Not everybody liked it, but they did it. They did what they had to do with Goodrow ... now you have to look at this with Zibanejad and say what is this — one-off, or #NYR  saying we've got to do what we need to do?"