Source for the rumor?

Some Detroit News website, and NHL Trade Rumors.

Eklund im pretty sure.....

Nope?

Was DSNation

Yup
https://hockeybuzz.com/blog/Eklund/Rumor-WingsSabres-Talking-Major-Trade-e4-Update-5-players-involved/1/101066

So nothing credible, right?

Not saying it won't happen but "rumour" is basically a friend of a friend of girlfriend of a guy of a teacher of a kid I know at this point.

There was other sources, I saw

Its totally an Eklund rumor, that is, it is totally made up

Stay off the weed and by weed i mean hockeybuzz

I normally don't worry about rumors but would make sense, he was a player Yzerman was chasing in Tampa.
https://detroitsportsnation.com/rumor-detroit-red-wings-closing-massive-trade/apowell/detroit-red-wings-news/09/03/2019/208302/

yup and other low level rumour sites pick on the rumour to get some clicks as well. I still cant believe he has a site, when he went on Sportsnet on Tradedeadline day back in 2013ish and made a complete fool of himself not getting anything near correct, how he still has a site ill never understand it

from the link in the article
"According to to HockeyBuzz.com, the Red Wings are allegedly considering trading forward Anthony Mantha to the Buffalo Sabres as part of a five-player deal that could see defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen land in Detroit."

He confirms lower the link to other websites the same rumor is shown.

so another low level rumour site that published a story on eklunds made up rumour from 10 days ago...I dont see how that shows any credibility. The source is Eklund, so sorry this aswesome deal for the Sabres isnt happening

https://www.hockeybuzz.com/blog.php?post_id=101066 his is from Aug 23, he made it up then and now its just making the rounds on all the fan rumour sites

For sure is a rumor, but I wanted to know what you all thought would need to be added on each side

Horrid trade for Detroit..

they said 5 player deal, so I think buff needs to add 2 more pieces, maybe another player and a prospect and the Wings a prospect.
Mantha, Bowey for Risto, Sheary and I dunno Buffalo prospects enough, but a decent guy Borgen or Luukkonen.

A framework of a deal like that maybe I can start to see how this would be a tempting move. Mantha is the best player in the deal so the value comes in with how big of an asset is that side prospect is coming back, or Mittelstadt is involved with Risto.

Eklund of Hockeybuzz started this rumor a couple of weeks ago. Amazing how many he has fished in on this one.

NHL Trade Rumors is a clickbait trash article, that does the same exact thing that Eklund does: make things up to get some clicks.
Everything that website says is trash, it has been proven lately with the Point's rumor and his contract at 8x8. Pile of trash

I thought we were done with this s!@#! Eklund is never right people need to realize this.

I agree I read the Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press and a couple blogs run by Detroit fans not once have they mentioned this trade. Last weekend when the rumor was mentioned here I tried to find anyone other than Eklund talking about it and I couldn't. With a 5 player trade its hard to keep it quite, there are just to many people involved and Eklund is the only one who knows anything? Ok?

DSNation isn't a reliable source, They're a lot like Eklund unreliable.

Buffalo is gonna have to add big time. I’d say Risto, Asplund, Sheary and a 2nd for Mantha and Helm

Thx that's what I was looking for...I realized it was a rumor