source told RG.org<\/a> on Wednesday. \u201cFrom what I know, the Bruins and Oilers have inquired, along with a couple of other teams.\u201d<\/p>\nTuch is entering the final year of his seven-year, $33.25 million deal. With Tuch in the final year of his deal, if the Sabres are out of playoff contention, he will be one of the most sought-after players on the trade front.<\/p>\n
Yet another NHL source told Murphy that it\u2019s likely that Buffalo won\u2019t trade Tuch until after the Olympic break in February.<\/p>\n
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\u201cI think this is more around the Olympic break (Feb. 6-25), or the NHL Trade Deadline (March 6),\u201d the source said of when Buffalo may trade Tuch. \u201cThe pressure is on for Adams to make the playoffs, so unless they\u2019re completely out of it, he\u2019s not trading away one of his best players and leaders. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cPlus, Tuch has made it clear he wants to stay. If they\u2019re still in it, then if he\u2019s not signed, Adams could just make him an internal playoff rental. But that won\u2019t stop teams from calling.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tuch is in his fifth season with the Sabres. He\u2019s from Syracuse and has said he wants to re-sign, but if a deal isn\u2019t made, a trade is likely.<\/p>\n
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Tuch scored 36 goals last season, tying his career-high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins reportedly have inquired about the availability of a star power forward from a division rival.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[70861,385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-242321","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-alex-tuch","9":"tag-nhl","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}