Adrian Dater: “Not at all 100% on this, but: consensus I’m getting is Avs did not come at Dubas with offer to be immediate GM. A post lower than that. So, Leafs then said no to him leaving. Permission was for him to leave only if he got GM offer. Confusing a bit, yes, but what I hear.”
On the Vancouver Canucks …
NHL.com: The Canucks are hoping that they can re-sign goaltender Ryan Miller.
“We have something to offer Ryan that he already knows,” Canucks general manager Jim Benning told the newspaper Thursday.