[Sylvanfan]

Jackets confirm that we have in fact dealt veteran defenceman Brendan Witt to the Nordique in exchange for Kyle Calder. Given that our team was still a bit thin up front this deal essentially nets us another forward who will play in our top 6 up front who is 4 years younger than the player being moved out. Although Calder and the Nordique had been unable to come to a contract agreement the Jackets feel an agreement of some type can be reached sooner rather than later. We wish Brendan the best, he's a player that we did like but in the end we had to make a move which we felt addressed an area of weakness from one of our strengths.