The stock-in-trade of rumor mongers across the http://www.authenticcelticsstore.com/authentic-jameer-nelson-jersey.html league is the fact that they come up with things that theoretically could happen. Very few of them will actually say things like, “The Penguins are struggling, so I've heard they're looking to trade Sidney Crosby for Luca Sbisa, Bo Horvat, and a first-round pick.” That is implausible, and you would tell them so. Instead, they say things like, “The Penguins are struggling, so I've heard they're looking to trade Chris Kunitz for Luca Sbisa, Bo Horvat, and a third-round pick.” Everything there seems reasonable enough that you'd at least see it happening, right? Run a trade proposal through NHL 16 or whatever, see what gets approved, and you're ready to go. Which is why the Matt Duchene rumors this week Martin St. Louis Premier Jersey were so interesting (and not just because it's being reported pretty much exclusively by credible sources). No one in their right minds would trade Matt Duchene because a team as bad as the Avalanche are once again struggling. But here's the thing: We have no evidence at all that the Avs are in their right minds. Therefore, it's not only feasible put perhaps even plausible that they'd be dumb enough to trade a guy who has 15 points in 18 games so far this season, and seems to at least be a guaranteed 50 or 60 points. And again, this is playing for a team that isn't very good. So as to the rumor itself, on Nov. 12, Adrian Dater asked Joe Sakic if Nathan MacKinnon was the only untouchable guy on the team, and this was the reply: "You know what, it doesn't matter what I say or what anyone says. Nate's not going anywhere, and there are guys that don't want to move. But you're always talking with teams, and you're wanting to listen on anybody, really." And we're off. Dater raised the possibility that Duchene might be one of the guys on the block because of his cap hit ($6 million), and the next day TSN's Insiders (Darren Dreger and Pierre LeBrun) threw a good amount of gasoline on the fire, saying that not only were calls made about possibly trading Duchene, but with Dreger naming Ottawa as a team that got a call about Duchene in early November, and were surprised to get it. However, Mike Chambers of the Denver Post Carl Soderberg Black Jersey notes that this was likely exploratory in nature, not that anyone is itching to trade Duchene. “Make no mistake, Sakic and his staff truly appreciate the team player,” he wrote, adding that they see Duchene as a “spark plug” for the team as a whole. He noted that, if anything, the Avs might want to trade Semyon Varlamov instead. LeBrun then followed up with a separate report that Duchene's “name has been out there lately.” If this road trip is the moment Colorado’s season is turning around for the better, perhaps Sakic sits tight. But if the team doesn’t get going, I think all bets are off as far as what the Avs might be willing to do trade-wise before the March deadline. They’re not going to sit on their hands and do nothing if it’s another poor season.” When asked about it later, also by http://www.authenticyankeesshop.com/authentic-2-derek-jeter-jersey.html Chambers, Sakic seemed surprised but denied nothing, using the tried-and-true “you're always listening, guys' names get brought up,” talk. This is all in the space of three days or so.