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Originally Posted by nmhen
Mike Russo's doing a live chat right now (which has to be extremely painful, with all the rubes bugging him about Vanek). Anyway, this little nugget just came out:
Can you explain the Stafford trade complications you mentioned at the deadline?
by Richard's Wall's In for ... 3:25 PM
I'm told my outside sources and not confirmed by anybody inside the organization that the Wild was trying to trade Heatley to Calgary to free up cap space
by Michael Russo 3:25 PM
http://live.startribune.com/Event/Wi...t_2_pm_Tuesday |
Burke did say that he tried to make a deal that involved us taking on cap space for something in return. It's extremely plausible that this was it.
Too bad it didn't happen.