Ray Whitney, the 41-year-old veteran whose career has spanned 1,308 games and eight NHL teams, seems likely to put another notch on his suitcase at this year’s trade deadline. With his scoring numbers down dramatically, the question is how much help he can be to a team trying to win the Stanley Cup.
It certainly hasn’t been an easy season for Whitney. TSN’s venerable Bob McKenzie mentioned Whitney’s name (along with that of defenceman Sergei Gonchar) in a recent edition of Insider Trading, and it doesn’t take much reading between the lines to understand the situation in Dallas:
Two names that you might hear out there are a couple of veterans from the Dallas Stars and maybe those players are actually hoping to hear their names in trade rumours: We're talking about veteran forward Ray Whitney and defenceman Sergei Gonchar. Neither of these two players, you could say, are thriving under Lindy Ruff in Dallas right now. It's not a great situation for either one of them. Now, if the Stars decide to move them, Whitney would be a pure rental and would be a lot easier to move, since somebody could pick him up for ...
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NHL Trade Rumors: Would Dallas Stars Forward Ray Whitney Help a Contender?
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