NHL Insider Reveals Why Bruins Couldn't Land Mark Stone.

"I don't know. I'm not saying that Pierre Dorion wouldn't have traded Mark Stone to either the Boston Bruins or New York Islanders, who were very, very keen, but I think he'd have preferred to not have to look at Mark Stone for the next eight years playing with an Eastern Conference rival. 

"And maybe the New York Rangers feel the same way, although I don't know that Winnipeg is going to have a strong appetite to re-sign Kevin Hayes, because they've got a boatload of contracts to wrestle with. So I wouldn't be surprised if Hayes go back to the New York Rangers as an unrestricted free agent.

"So sometimes it's just that competitive balance, and where the key targets - the players - hail from initially.