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Originally Posted by icarus
Hard to believe we just passed the 20th anniversary of this trade:
March 6, 2004: Traded by the New York Rangers, along with New York's 2004 7th round draft choice, to the Calgary Flames in exchange for Jamie McLennan, Blair Betts and Greg Moore.
RIP Chris, and thanks for the memories.
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It's funny you mention this as this is what I was thinking as well. Darryl Sutter called into the Fan960 a few years back to say goodbye to Rhett when he was leaving radio and they started to reminisce about 2004 and Sutter mentioned how it was tough to trade Noodles because of who he was and how much he meant to the team but the Rangers needed a goalie at that time due to injuries and Sutter had been on Glen Sathers tail about Simon for most of the season. The Rangers were out of the playoffs so Sather said sure send me a goalie & players & i'll give you Simon.
Sutter also shared a story around how in Game 1 of the 2004 first round vs Vancouver, Simon was manning the redline during warmup going back & forth staring at the Canucks and he let the likes of Jovo, Matt Cooke etc. know "if any of you touch Iginla....you're dead" Sutter said he knew at that time that they would be alright in that series.