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Columbus trades Antoine Vermette to Phoenix
by George Malik on 02/22/12 at 01:06 PM ET
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Per TSN’s Bob McKenzie:
CBJ trades Antoine Vermette to PHX. #tsn
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Hearing a pair of draft picks are going from PHX to CBJ for Vermette. Details to follow.
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PHX is also including a minor league player off their Portland farm team with the two draft picks to CBJ for Antoine Vermette. #tsn
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Vermette has another three years left on his contract at $3.75M per year. #tsn
Update: Per the Columbus Dispatch’s Aaron Portzline:
#CBJ get a 2nd round pick this year (prev. Ottawa’s) and a 5th in 2013, which goes to a fourth if Coyotes win a playoff round.
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#CBJ also get G Curtis McElhinney in the deal.
Here’s the Coyotes’ press release:
GLENDALE, ARIZONA – Phoenix Coyotes General Manager Don Maloney announced today that the Coyotes have acquired center Antoine Vermette (AN-twuhn, vuhr-MEHT) from the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for a second-round draft choice in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft (acquired from Ottawa), a fifth-round draft choice in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft and goaltender Curtis McElhinney.
“We are extremely pleased to acquire Antoine,” Maloney said. “He is a smart, skilled, two-way center who will be a great addition to our lineup.”
The 6-foot-1, 198-pound Vermette has recorded 8-19-27 in 60 games this season for the Blue Jackets. In 600 career NHL games with Columbus and the Ottawa Senators he has posted 141-178-319.
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Phoenix is on a predetermined budget and has made a handful of trades or waiver additions so far this season. Hardly worth the aggravation.
Posted by Moq from Denmark on 02/22/12 at 03:26 PM ET
Yotes just got stronger in the centerman position.
Posted by SYF from the bottom of my, what, 11teenth pint of Guinness? on 02/22/12 at 04:34 PM ET
I’m starting to think Nash stays everyone else goes.
Posted by 13 user names on 02/22/12 at 06:50 PM ET
Exactly the type of guy that flourishes in the Desert.
Posted by larry from pitt on 02/22/12 at 08:23 PM ET
I think it’s an overreaction to call PHX a winner right yet. Vermette has not been so great the past couple of seasons, and honestly I don’t see what hole he fills on the PHX roster.
Posted by Primis on 02/23/12 at 08:22 AM ET
I don’t see what hole he fills on the PHX roster.
Posted by Primis on 02/23/12 at 07:22 AM ET
Phoenix has needed another center all season. With Kyle Turris not working out (that second round pick was part of Ottawa’s deal for him), they have Hanzal, Gordon, Lankow, and Chipchura. Depth after that is pretty inexperienced, They have Andy Miele, but he hasn’t been called back up since November. Marc-Antoine Pouliot hasn’t been back up either. Chipchura wont lose his roster spot though, He’ll probably be slid over to wing until Taylor Pyatt returns.
With all the injuries, I honestly see them in the market for a defenseman, but GMDM said he likes the team, and chemistry, and doesn’t want to take a roster player from the mix.
They we’re at the 50 contract limit, that’s why Curtis McElhinney had to go.
Posted by aaron in phoenix from Section 102 on 02/23/12 at 10:44 AM ET
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