I have not read that anywhere about McDonagh. All I saw was this:
Ryan McDonagh, who was seriously being considered as a trade piece, missed his ninth straight game with an unspecified upper-body injury. Vigneault said he skated Sunday along with Kevin Shattenkirk (knee surgery) and Ondrej Pavelec (MCL sprain).
I hope you are right and he is traded today, that is a way to super jumpstart the reboot, but I still have my doubts he gets dealt. We'll find out within 8 hours or so.