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Brad Treliving on the acquisition of Chris Tanev’s rights: “We wanted to jump the queue… An elite defensive player, an absolute warrior, and a culture carrier for your room”

Can you talk about the trade you made to acquire the rights to Chris Tanev?

Treliving: We talked since the end of the year about trying to help ourselves on defense. As it got closer and it looked like he might potentially not be signing in Dallas, we wanted to jump the queue here as best we could and get to him before free agency started. That is what we are going to do.

I know the player well. We will get to work on it now. I am at least excited to have an opportunity to speak directly to him and see if we can put something together.