Journeyman "Jeremy’s Sametime Status" has been traded to the Hawks for a box of used pucks to be shipped later.
Wow...only made it one season with the Wings? That's pretty lousy.
So today, as all of you know, is the NHL Trade Deadline. There has already been some activity in the trade front over the last couple weeks, most notably Mike Comrie and Chris Campoli headed to Ottawa for new Islander Dean McAmmond and a 1st rounder. There's also the Ryan Whitney trade in which Chris Kunitz and Eric Tangradi changed coasts from Anaheim to Pittsburgh. More is sure to follow today, especially the long-anticipated Jay Bouwmeester trade out of Florida. Whoever picks him up is going to send Florida a nice payday of players and draft picks. Also, if all of my stars align, Kyle Calder will find a taker and rid the LA Kings of this year's version of Brian "Skills" Willsie.
So what condition was this box in...the one that held the used pucks, I mean?
If you follow hockey and look for interesting trade rumours, you've undoubtedly come across the NHL Rumour website for the "Anonymous Hockey Blogger" who is such a useless waste of space and internetz bandwidth, I won't even link to his craphole of a page here. With a rumour success rate of 2.4% (As of 3/4/09), this chump's "sources" amount to little more than a dartboard. However...this leads other people to have fun with it and generate fun websites like The Ecklund Rumour Generator, from which I learned that "According to sources within the St. Louis Blues organisation, the New York Rangers are willing to part with D Wade Redden, a 7th round pick, G Henrik Lundqvist to obtain the services of D Erik Johnson. Remember, you heard it here first!"
That's a better trade than the Hawks just made, I can tell you that...
Now, I know many Rangers fans are somewhat unhappy with Wade Redden's performance this year, but apparently, St. Louis thinks he can turn it around in the stretch run if they're willing to trade away Erik Johnson. However, it would seem that despite (or because of) the recent Sean Avery acquisition, the Rangers might be writing off the year, since Erik Johnson is out for the season with a knee injury. Interesting trade, if it happens. :)
3 comments:
You could have totally made all of these names up and I wouldn't know.
I don't really follow hockey that much, but is Taffy Abel,Hy Buller and Bill Cook still playing for the Rangers?
Willie, I'm sorry to say none of your heroes are with the Rangers anymore. Abel was last seen playing in Chicago for the Blackhawks, Cook was with the Cleveland Barons, and Buller decided to hang up the skates after a 22-goal, 215 PIM NHL carreer.
And Jeremy, as you well know from running a Status Message blog of your own, anything I write here should be viewed as 100% legitimate indisputable fact. Disproving anything written here is left as an exercise for the reader. (I'll save you some time and say that all of the NHL players and teams I mentioned are 100% accurate)
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