http://www.stltoday.com/sports/hock...cle_32323c49-42d6-5960-8547-8620ee9c767c.html
“I think anyone in any job, you want there to be a good chance for upward mobility,†Cole said. “We had met a couple of times and (Armstrong) was asking me about my situation. I think when it came down to it, if there wasn’t an opportunity for me to play here, (and) with the move at the trade deadline where we got Michalek, it started to look like that was the case. What I said to ‘Army,’ word for word, was, ‘Army, there’s no place in the NHL that I’d rather play than here in St. Louis, with this group of guys that have become my family. But if I can’t play here, then I would like to play somewhere. If the opportunity comes up and I’m not going to play here, if the opportunity arises that you can move me to a team that I can play on, I would not be opposed to that at all.’ So he made the move to get a defenseman and follow through with his word, saying that if I wasn’t going to be able to play here, he’d try to get me to a team where I’d be able to really try to excel on. He did that.â€
I guess he kind of asked for a trade, but i wonder if he really is going to get a chance to play here when everybody is healthy.