The details of the Marleau rumor

From Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch:

The rumor over the weekend was Nikolai Zherdev, Dan Fritsche or Stefan Legein and the No. 19 pick to San Jose for Patrick Marleau. I spent most of Saturday pursuing this and was told by a handful of close-to-the-situation sources that there’s no truth to it, that the two clubs have not put together the framework of any specific trade as of yet. No names have been mentioned.

Here is the entire posting from Puck-Rakers.

Portzline gives you all you need to know about this possible transaction. This is a good-read.