Patrik Laine reiterates his need to leave Columbus

"Dean did talk to him, very cordial conversation, but he's made it clear that he wants a fresh start someplace else. And I've had this situation before, probably not at this level, this type of player. And I've told his representation that we will definitely look at every deal and I've given him full permission to talk to teams. So, I've been where I've had players that wanted to be traded before and just because a player wants to traded, two things have to happen. You have to have a willing partner and you also have to have a deal that we both can accept and agree on. And at this time I don't have that, so I can't rule out any possibilities at this point."

"Well he's still a Blue Jacket today and as we speak, I don't have anything of interest, but nothing that I had to make a decision on yet. Just some teams do their homework and trying to talk with Patrik and his agent and he thought about giving full permission to talk to teams. So, but as we are talking, I don't have anything that on the table that would even make any sense for the Blue Jackets to make that deal."