Your Trade Deadline Primer
Kent Wilson
March 01 2010 03:06PM
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With the Olympics over and the trade deadline a mere two days away, today feels a bit like the eye of the storm. Flames Nation has a number of Calgary focused articles in the hopper, but for now here's a general overview of what to expect on Wednesday.
Sellers - Who's Available:
Atlanta Thrashers - Colby Armstrong, Slava Kozlov, Max Afinogenov
Carolina Hurricanes - Aaron Ward, Ray Whitney, Scott Walker, Joe Corvo
Columbus Blue Jackets- Raffi Torres, Fred Modin
Edmonton OIlers - Everybody over the age of 25
Florida Panthers - Rostislav Olesz, Radek Dvorak, Jordan Leopold, Dennis Seidenberg, Kamil Kreps
New York Islanders - Doug Weight, Andy Sutton, Martin Biron, Richard Park
St. Louis Blue - Paul Kariya, Keith Tkachuk, Darryl Sydor
Toronto Maple Leafs - Alexei Ponikarovsky, Lee Stempniak, Wayne Primeau, Tomas Kaberle (?)
Buyers - Wants/needs:
Anaheim Ducks - offensive depth
Boston Bruins - offensive impact player, veteran defender
Calgary Flames - Offensive impact player, back-up goalie
Chicago Blackhawks - Established goaltender
Dallas Stars - Offensive and defensive depth
Detroit Red Wings - Offensive depth
Los Angeles Kings - Offensive depth, goaltending
Montreal Canadiens - Impact forwards, offensive depth
Nashville - Impact forwards, offensive depth
Ottawa - Defensive depth
Philadelphia - Goaltending
Reading the tea leaves on trade deadline day is tough. There are always a few obvious moves, but they are typically surrounded by a litany of trades that would have been nearly impossible to predict. In addition, sometimes sellers will deal with each other as long as their haves/needs matchup and they aren't direct rivals. As such, this handy "cheat sheet" isn't exhaustive, but it does give one the lay of the land.
Anyone over 25 huh Kent? Sounds good up here!
*looks WAAAAAAAY down the standings to find the Oilers nods in agreement with the statement above*
There goes Grebeshkov, who was juuussst over the 25 mark.
In goat years Grebs was 1,564 years old.
You would know all about goats, wouldn't you?