Panthers acquire Carl Gunnarsson

[Caged Great]

The rebuild continues in South Florida, and another veteran player is moving on out.

To Columbus

Anton Volchenkov

To Florida

Carl Gunnarsson
Ivan Telegin

Gunnarsson has been playing top 4 minutes for the leafs since the Kaberle trade and has been playing fairly well for the leafs this season and I think he has fairly high upside. He should be a cheap 5/6th d-man next year for the Panthers.

He joins a solid group of under 24 year old D-men, Ryan McDonagh, Andrew MacDonald, Mark Katic, and Yann Sauve. This trade will also save the Panthers quite a large sum of money that it would've taken to re-sign Anton as well that can be moved to other areas of need.

Telegin slots into a spot on the ECHL team. I've been trying to constantly improve my worst players and Telegin is an improvement over another player on my roster who will be moved out.

[Swayze11]

Pretty surprised that was the best return for a 69OVR D-man with an 89DF rating but if your happy thats all that matters.

Damn Columbus looks scary now, nice work Dave.

[Caged Great]

Only one person sent me an email asking for any of my players.

If I get players that I like and think will be good, then I'll make the trade.

I'm looking to next year and beyond, and Gunnar should be a good 5/6 D-man along with MacDonald next season, and likely 3/4 d-men 2 seasons from now or better.

Volchenkov will cost 8+ to re-sign, and I would've likely spent that to keep him. Now that cash can be transferred to other areas of need.