There's no trade season like NHL trade season.
Though other sports have their in-season trade deadlines and transaction activity does tend to pick up as they grow closer, hockey, as in many ways, is a different animal.
The off-ice buzz about on-ice personnel moves begins for the next year as soon as it's done for the current year, and much of the chatter out there about players these days can be traced back to sometime last winter.
Needless to say, it's among the most wonderful times of the year for the B/R hockey team.
Its latest endeavor was to scan the rumor horizon as we sit 17 days out from March 8 and decide which ones are worthy of purchase and which should be left on the rack.