Watching the trade market move, fans felt that Mackie Samoskevich was being treated more like a digital asset in a spreadsheet than a human player.

If agility were measured by how quickly rumors about a player's destination can travel, Mackie Samoskevich would already be the fastest skater in the league.

There is a special kind of zen required for a player to wake up as one team's prospect and go to bed as the central piece of a hypothetical Kraken acquisition.