Rumor: Team attempted big player for player deal but has reportedly been turned down.

This would have been a juicy trade.

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Rumor: Team attempted big player for player deal but has reportedly been turned down.

There was nearly a huge trade in the National Hockey League but one side reportedly wasn't willing to pull the trigger.

Most of you by now have heard the rumor that the Arizona Coyotes are looking to move young forward Anthony Duclair in a trade, but what we didn't have confirmation of was just how exactly they were planning to do that. On Wednesday Lyle Richardson of the Hockey Newshas reported that the Coyotes reportedly tried to swap Duclair for Calgary Flames defenseman Dougie Hamilton.

Obviously that trade never materialized, but one has to wonder if this was the "insulting" offer Flames president Brian Burke refereed to last week when he was forced to go on a media tour to deny the rumors that they were looking to trade Dougie Hamilton.  A young defenseman like Hamilton certainly comes at a premium cost in the NHL, as the Flames would know after giving up a ransom to acquire him from the Boston Bruins, but an offer of a player like Anthony Duclair is hardly an insult, if anything it sounds like the opening salvo of a potentially monster deal.

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Those talks curiously appear to have resurfaced last week when the Hamilton rumors broke to the public and it seems likely that either one or both of these teams is still trying to make something happen. It certainly sounds like in the case of Duclair at least, the writing is on the wall.

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