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Hi gang, Rick Ostler here with OHL Hockey News, bringing you the Hockey Trade Rumours Report. Lots of NHL trade rumours swirling around the start of the Calgary Flames camp.

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Adrian Aucoin isn’t some rube as green as a bushel of brussels sprouts. The Calgary Flames defenceman is in fact pretty sharp — a perfectly bilingual chap who attended Boston University. Aucoin broke into the National Hockey League with Vancouver in 1995, which is 13 years — or, if you prefer, five Canucks sweater modifications — ago.

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So when he looks around the locker-room and sees eight rearguards with a combined 3,709 contests of NHL experience and only seven jobs available, he knows there’s a problem.

When he takes note of eight one-way contracts worth a total of $25 million, he realizes something has to give. “A lot of guys are thinking about it,” said Aucoin, who will make $4 million in the final season of a deal signed with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2005, “but something’s going to happen sooner or later. I think everybody knows they have to do what they do best and something’s going to happen.

“Obviously, (general manager Darryl Sutter) will have to make a hard decision. It’s not going to be easy, but hopefully whoever it is, he’s going to find some greener grass somewhere else.” One report suggested Aucoin, despite no-trade protection, would be the guy to go, with the Los Angeles Kings the most likely suitor.

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“Oh yeah, I’m sure,” laughed Aucoin, who admits he actually enjoys trade gossip. “They need money (in Los Angeles in order to get up to the salary floor). There’s going to be rumours. It’s going to happen a lot more now when you see older guys in their last year that there’ll be rumours about them. I mean it’s always been like that, but even more now.”

The situation on Calgary’s back end might be tricky, but all visible evidence suggests it’s anything but awkward. Guys battling for the same job kid with each other and, as was the case Friday when Rhett Warrener went after the Florida player who cross-checked Anders Eriksson, stick up for one another.

“That’s the type of players that we have here,” said Aucoin, a 35-year-old Ottawa product. “You look at our D corps and you’re not going to find many better guys in the league as persons. Even though you’re in competition with the other guys out there, we never see it as that.”

The 2007-08 season was as good as it’s been for Aucoin since the lockout. After two miserable, injury sabotaged seasons with the Blackhawks, he played 76 games and notched 10 goals and 25 assists in his first Calgary season.

In a day when free-flowing hockey is all the rage, Aucoin admits he’s a bit of a dinosaur. “I’m all right (with the way the game is played today) just because I can move the puck,” he said. “That’s what helps my style of game. But personally, I still prefer the clutch and grab. I’m not the slowest guy, but I’ve always been really good with my stick and using it to tie up (opponents’) hands and grabbing and pushing and getting under guys’ skins. NHL Trade Rumours…Thanks to Jean Lefebvre, Calgary Herald for this;Aucoin knows numbers game

Adrian Aucoin Player Profile
Defense
Born Jul 3 1973  -- Ottawa, ONT
Height 6.02 -- Weight 210 -- Shoots R
Selected by Vancouver Canucks round 5 #117 overall 1992 NHL Entry Draft
                                            --- Regular Season ---  ---- Playoffs ----
Season   Team                        Lge    GP    G    A  Pts  PIM  GP   G   A Pts PIM
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1991-92  Boston University           NCAA   33    2   10   12   62
1992-93  Canadian National Team      Intl   42    8   10   18   71
1993-94  Hamilton Canucks            AHL    13    1    2    3   19   4   0   2   2   6
1993-94  Canadian National Team      Intl   63    5   12   17   82
1994-95  Vancouver Canucks           NHL     1    1    0    1    0   4   1   0   1   0
1994-95  Syracuse Crunch             AHL    71   13   18   31   52  --  --  --  --  --
1995-96  Vancouver Canucks           NHL    49    4   14   18   34   6   0   0   0   2
1995-96  Syracuse Crunch             AHL    29    5   13   18   47  --  --  --  --  --
1996-97  Vancouver Canucks           NHL    70    5   16   21   63  --  --  --  --  --
1997-98  Vancouver Canucks           NHL    35    3    3    6   21  --  --  --  --  --
1998-99  Vancouver Canucks           NHL    82   23   11   34   77  --  --  --  --  --
1999-00  Vancouver Canucks           NHL    57   10   14   24   30  --  --  --  --  --
1999-00  Canadian National Team      Intl    2    0    0    0    2
2000-01  Vancouver Canucks           NHL    47    3   13   16   20  --  --  --  --  --
2000-01  Tampa Bay Lightning         NHL    26    1   11   12   25  --  --  --  --  --
2001-02  New York Islanders          NHL    81   12   22   34   62   7   2   5   7   4
2002-03  New York Islanders          NHL    73    8   27   35   70   5   1   2   3   4
2003-04  New York Islanders          NHL    81   13   31   44   54   5   0   0   0   6
2004-05  Modo Hockey Ornskoldsvik    SEL    14    2    4    6   32   6   1   0   1  16
2005-06  Chicago Blackhawks          NHL    33    1    5    6   38  --  --  --  --  --
2006-07  Chicago Blackhawks          NHL    59    4   12   16   50  --  --  --  --  --
2007-08  Calgary Flames              NHL    76   10   25   35   37   7   0   3   3   4
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         NHL Totals                        770   98  204  302  581  34   4  10  14  20

Rick Ostler, OHL Hockey News- Hockey Trade Rumours Report

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