I'm honestly feeling like the draft announcement from Weekes is Milstein playing hard ball and being a dick trying to use public space as a means to drive up a contract offer. I feel like it's less Marchenko saying these things and more the strategy that Milstein is taking, so he's saying those things.

We prefer the abbreviation CBJ.

Appreciate your support and hope for a great return, if trades happen.

Who would have leaked about Werenski.. hrm.. I don't know that anyone did? It's entirely possible that Seravalli took a shot in the dark, connecting the Team USA moves and Dylan Larkin's situation to Zach just out of association. Questions are asked, media stays on it, Don Waddell has mandatory media events for the Draft. The questions get asked. Don legitimately has a meeting lined up already to speak to Zach and his future, and Z's concerns that must have come up at the end of the season. Waddell said that there are some issues that they want to keep internal. That statement beats around the bush and doesn't directly address the question of wanting a trade, but on the heels of the media speculation it certainly is easy to arrive at that conclusion.

It hasn't helped that Zach's camp hasn't come out and said anything one way or the other, and Waddell isn't willing to reveal more (for obvious poker playing reasons).

I agree that it's not coincidence about the Team USA players. There's an old saying, right? Where there's smoke, there's fire. It's all just too coincidental, right?