1) A general " You're Welcome" to all our readers who sent us E-mails thanking us for being 'The voice of reason' this trade deadline. While all the usual suspects (Eklund, etc) were spouting off rumour after silly rumour about possible/likely block buster trades, we were busy making repeated posts saying that this trade deadline will be one of the more quiet in a long time. In fact we specifically wrote a post stating this very fact last month:dead-line-day-snooze-fest.2) A total of 22 trades yesterday. Not exactly the flurry of activity that many were expecting. As we wrote in our trade-bait post last week: "We will see the usual flurry of adding impending UFA's from non-playoff clubs and shifting of draft picks." Which with only an exception or two that was exactly what happened. The biggest deal involving a named player who isn't soon to be an UFA was the Flames picking up Ollie Jokinen. Hardly the Earth shattering deal that was widely rumored to be taking place yesterday. In fact many in the media had predicted that the 'Yotes might move the Finn center. (Note: We will do a separate winners/losers post shortly)
3) To recap: Vinny Lecavalier, Marty St. Louis, Jay Bouwmeester, Chris Pronger, Ilya Kovalchuk, etc were NOT dealt yesterday. If we were a paid subscriber (shoot us if we ever are!) of Eklund we'd be clamouring for a refund by now! As we wrote about Bowmeester last month, we heard from a reliable source that/j-bow-staying-put. We want to send a heart felt Thank you to all the folks who gave us reliable information! (The Avery situation aside of course! LOL)
4) We have to also mention here about a very weird trade yesterday. In one of the more bizarre trades Brian Burke picked up two players who will not only be UFA's after the season, but are on IR and VERY unlikely to play again this season. (Olie Kolzig and Jamie Heward) Was Brian Burke a bit tipsy when he made these deals? Or was he just screwing around? It made no sense to have those players involved. They simply could have swapped minor leaguers/picks without throwing in guys who will probably retire in a few weeks?
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A VERY frustrating day for my Caps yesterday... This team is not presently ready to go deep into the playoffs... The Caps are not tough, gritty, or playoff savvy... GM McFly did nothing yesterday (literally) to address the concerns... Too many guys on this team have been reading the blogs and papers and really think they are a great team... Of course, there is is a lot of talent... INDIVIDUAL talent! There is NO team concept or system in place... If the goal this season was to finish 1st in the inferior SE Division, place 3rd in the Conference, and lose in round 1 or 2 in the playoffs, then CONGRATS McFly, you will be successful...
And yes, Faux, it appears Brian Burke has developed a drinking problem... Heward couldn't play on the awful 2007 Caps... LOL
Apparently, Toronto had tons of cap room and Tampa wanted more revenue-sharing, so they dumped two future retirees because you can't do trades for cash. Now if only I could remember where I read that.
Carol, thats exactly what happened with that silly TB-Tor trade. Will be interesting if there is any attempted quid-pro-quo by TB to 'help' Toronto this coming draft period.
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