Sammi Silber of WSHHockeyNOW: Apparently, Brian MacLellan is not as open to trading Evgeny Kuznetsov. Hey, sometimes things get misconstrued. There is no denying that Washington has a cap crunch. They are trying to sign Alex Ovechkin and RFA goaltender Ilya Samsonov.
They have to see how much cap space will be left afterward. Even with everything that happened to Kuznetsov last year, it does not mean they are automatically trading him.
Has it been discussed? Surely, it has.
Everyone is saying the right things.