Per Andy Strickland:

"Paul Kariya still appears to be headed to Anaheim. As I have reported in the last several weeks many people in the Ducks organization have done their homework on Kariya including head coach Randy Carlyle who has made calls to people inside the Blues organization. I'm hearing eqipment personel from Anaheim have made calls to the Blues as well. This could be a matter of Anaheim needing to finalize Bobby Ryan before they turn their full attention to Kariya.

Kariya by the way still won't admit he will play this season but most people believe there is little chance he calls it quits."