Brian Hedger of The Columbus Dispatch: Columbus Blue Jackets GM Jarmo Kekalainen on the reports of Pierre-Luc Dubois asking for a trade despite signing a two-year extension last week.
“The rumors and these things, they’re always out there about players,” Kekalainen said when asked if he felt the need to handle the situation quickly. “General managers talk about trades all the time and sometimes rumors start from there. As far as I’m concerned, those conversations are always confidential and they won’t go anywhere else, but that’s part of the business that we have to accept.