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Old 11-15-2013, 10:29 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by moon View Post
Well it appears nobody knew what they had or others would have dealt for him and a 2nd round pick for a back-up goalie is a pretty damn good return so they obviously knew not to toss him away for nothing.

Plus it wasn't like they were stuck with some bum as Nabokov was playing pretty well for them and would play well for the next couple of years as well.

I remember hearing at the time that we offered a 2nd for either Toskala or Kiprusoff and San Jose chose to send us Kiprusoff.

San Jose did draft Vlasic with that pick, so they did a good job turning that "nothing" into something useful at least.
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