Well, in addition to the Tkatchuk trade we made a pair of deals last night/today. First one is with the Bolts. We traded Ruslan Fedotenko to Drew for Justin Abdelkader. Two years ago at the trade deadline I made a brutal trade (and damn well knew it at the time) and added Ken Klee for the playoff run but it cost me Abdelkader. The second I pressed accept I knew I'd made a mistake (though if I had won the Cup that year I probably wouldn't have cared as much). So, getting him back was sort of writing a wrong on my part. Thanks to Drew for the quick and easy trade talks.
The second deal happened today, we have sent Marco Sturm and 2.85 mill to the Thrashers for Paul Gaustad, Robert Nilsson, and a 2nd round pick. I had plenty of offers for Sturm and weighed them all against each other...in the end I decided this deal was fair and I just couldn't justify spending anymore hours trying to move him.
So, there you have it. We have a couple more guys that can be moved, Zubrus, Reasoner and Hannan, maybe Corvo. And I still have a couple offers for other guys to get back to people on.
So far:
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Fedotenko, Ruslan (RW) NHL
Sturm, Marco (LW) NHL
Tkachuk, Keith (C) NHL
Ward, Aaron (D) NHL
Mason, Chris (G) NHL
Wirtanen, Petteri (C) AHL
Surovy, Tomas (LW) AHL
$8.35 million
IN
Hunter, Trent (LW) NHL
Lehtonen, Kari (G) NHL
Brown, Curtis (C) NHL
Paille, Daniel (C) NHL
Nilsson, Robert (LW) NHL
Gaustad, Paul (LW) NHL
Abdelkader, Justin (LW) NHL
Nokelainen, Petteri (C) AHL
Pelech, Matt (D) AHL
2010 2nd Round Draft Choice (que)
Axel to buy Kris a beer.
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