It's the Olympic break, so you would think that like the games the trade talk would take a break. However, the buzz cars wheels keep on spinning.
The trade winds are mainly swirling around Bruins goalie Tim Thomas. Thomas is in Vancouver with the United States Olympic team and even on the other side of North America he is being drilled with what ifs.
At the Olympic games, ESPN writer E.J. Hradek talked to Thomas and reported, "Thomas is pretty down about his situation."
His situation, of course is that the 2009 Vezina trophy winner has been demoted to back-up duty. The man guarding the Bruin crease these days is not the Tank, but 22-year-old Tuukka Rask.
The big thing here is that Thomas told Hradek that he does not want to waive his no trade clause right now. This helps support my theory that there is no chance the Bruins trade Thomas before the deadline.
The remainder of the NHL season is going to go at rapid fire pace with the Bruins finishing with 22 games in 41 days. Your back-up goaltender is still going to get his fair share of starts, especially with four back-to-back games down the stretch.
Look for Thomas to stay put in the hub for at least the remainder of this season and likely longer.
With that said, NHL sources claim that Bruins management would love to ditch Thomas' remaining contract and they will likely try again in June.
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