Voisin has a knack for dropping major news items like this in a fairly nonchalant manner, so I want to at least keep the door open to the possibility that this is news Voisin had heard under previous circumstances, and it just sort of slipped out now. It's an odd time to request a trade if this just happened, and an even odder time to make public if the Kings are actually trying to trade him like Stein suggests. It doesn't exactly do anything for Gay's trade value, and if Gay's value is lowered by the publication of his request, it only decreases the likelihood that the Kings move him.

I don't know, something about how this slipped out the way that it did feels dubious. Stay tuned.

UPDATE:

Sean Cunningham of News10 has a conflicting report, saying there has never been a formal trade request by Rudy. Hrm.