Tkachuk Suspicion Follows The Okuliar Trade Trail

The question hanging over the Oliver Okuliar trade is whether Matthew Tkachuk had a hand in it, and that is exactly the kind of intrigue hockey people love to whisper about. Whenever a move starts getting tied to a star with real weight in the room, the story stops being just about the transaction and starts becoming about influence. Those are the conversations that usually happen off the record first, which is why this one has extra bite.