Not sure if that is a response meant for me but it doesn't really explain how/why a GM would use a media report to figure out what other GM's are doing or to effect anything that they would do.
Are you really suggesting that Paul Holmgren would read that and "Say well boys Strickland says Flames want Nichuskin so take him off the list and don't worry about scouting him'?
Or that Tallon has Seth Jones pencilled in to his line-up based on the "reports" coming out of Denver?
Teams make their plans and decide how to deal with teams based on scouting, knowledge of the guys in the hockey department and by talking to them and others in the business. Some report in the Denver Sun or hockeybuzz.com isn't going to change what they do or think and isn't going have them pay up to get the guy they want.
Feaster isn't going to trick anyone into overpaying or taking someone else by putting out some report about the Flames supposedly wanting Nichuskin.
Teams aren't going to be more or less interested in a player because of some newspaper report of the Flames supposedly liking a guy at 6.
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