Trade deadline: Ken Holland is receiving call regarding a top prospect.

Quite unexpected calls regarding Wing’s center.

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Trade deadline: Ken Holland is receiving call regarding a top prospect.
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Would you listen or you would just hang up?

It’s quite a well-known fact now (as the trade deadline is in one week) that the Detroit Red Wings and Ken Holland will be sellers. We already heard plenty of times the names of Thomas Vanek, Gustav Nyquist, Tomas Tatar and Brendan Smith among the trade bait. One name has not been mentioned yet though.

Elliotte Friedman, top Sportsnet insider, took the Detroit Red Wings trade rumors to a whole new level by stating he heard some GM inquired for the prospect center Andreas Athanasiou. Here is the complete statement from Friedman: 

Heard through the gossip line that a few teams had reached out to Detroit about Andreas Athanasiou when there were some battles over his ice time. Red Wings GM Ken Holland wouldn’t comment, but another team indicated he told them not to even bother asking unless ‘a 22-year-old top-pair defenseman’ was part of the conversation. The Wings have told clubs they are ‘open for business,’ but won’t consider moving any of their young offensive cornerstones unless that kind of player is potentially available. My sense is the same goes for Petr Mrazek. Thomas Vanek likely goes (and could come back in the summer). They will discuss re-signing Brendan Smith in the next few days before a decision on trading him.

If you were Ken Holland and you were receiving calls regarding Andreas Anthanasiou, what would you do? Hang up or listen?


Source: Sportsnet