Wild Trade Buzz Puts Auston Matthews in an Unlikely Spot

This is the sort of speculative chatter that starts small and then takes on a life of its own when enough people in the league start talking. Auston Matthews to Minnesota is the kind of blockbuster idea that gets tossed around when fans are chasing a fantasy and insiders are measuring how hard the phone would ring. The trade mechanics would be the whole story here, because a name that big does not move without a stack of real hockey reasons behind it.