Well we felt we could use some more offensive firepower up front. Iginla has been tearing it up for us but we wanted to give him some help. Vermette was a solid 2nd liner, but Anze brings us a current 1st liner who is only 22 years old. While Bogosian was hard to give up, he is still about a year some away from a very high rating (at he earliest). Once he does make it he will be worth a ton, but with Doughty/Schenn/Weber/Chara/Bouwmeester we felt he was expendable.
Very glad to have re-acquired Kopitar, he was one guy I regret moving earlier. Thanks to Curtis for the fun talks.
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