One of the fascinating things about the NHL is that the way communication goes, teams are constantly and consistently having ongoing conversations about players. Trades aren’t usually made on a whim (unless you’re Chris Pyror and Ron Hextall and jump to grab Mikael Granlund, anyways), but often come as a result of weeks if not months of talking and exchanging ideas until the trigger gets pulled.
Today, we look into a few such examples of what could have been
Billy G, a Capital?
Set your watch back to February 2009. The Penguins had just fired Michel Therrien.