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Report- Flames/Rangers Trade
by Paul on 01/31/10 at 10:17 PM ET
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from TSN,
Sources tell TSN the New York Rangers and Calgary Flames are expected to announce a trade tonight that will send Calgary centre, Olli Jokinen to the Rangers in exchange for Ales Kotalik and either Chris Higgins or rookie defenceman, Matt Gilroy.
added 10:22pm, via Darren Dreger’s Twitter,
Gilroy wont be involved.
added 10:27pm,, TSN has updated the same link as above,
Sources tell TSN the New York Rangers and Calgary Flames are expected to announce a trade tonight that will send Calgary centre Olli Jokinen and forward Brandon Prust to the Rangers in exchange for forwards Ales Kotalik and Christopher Higgins.
added 11:23pm, Via Darren Dreger’s Twitter,
Trade call is unlikely tonight. Sounds like the Flames are holding this deal up. Working on why.
added 8:10am on 02/01/10, via Elliotte Friedman’s Twitter,
Got a text overnight saying the Flames/Rangers deal had fallen apart. We’ll see if the two teams might try again today.
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What does Calgary get out of this? They lose two expiring contracts in order to get an albatross and another expiring contract, and they gave up the only (marginally) productive player. I don’t blame Calgary for holding it up.
Posted by Alex on 01/31/10 at 11:31 PM ET
This is a stupid trade for calgary. I don’t know why in the world any team would want kotalik for 3 million for 2 more years. Kotalik is on a ridiculous contract that he is nowhere near living up to. Friggin -18, so bad, and hes not even scoring. Higgins has been marginal at best, so I fail to see how this helps the flames. Jokinen is having a bad year, yah, but hes way better then these 2 scrubs. Prust is a great role player to have, I don’t see why they would want to get rid of him etiher. The flames already adjusted their scoring woes by getting hagman, and co. already. This is just a stupid trade on all levels.
Posted by Luongo-is-my-hero on 02/01/10 at 02:02 AM ET
I agree bad trade for Calgary, Olie is underachieving and Dion Phaneuf (now a leaf!!) are not performing as expected so they dish them off for next to nothing. Bad play by Calgary. As a Leafs fan I am very happy about getting Phaneuf though!
Posted by Hockey how to from huntsville on 02/01/10 at 04:20 AM ET
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not sure if this is a good trade. It does move Dubinsky to the wing full time though, which may help the Rangers come playoff time. We will see.
Posted by bsalamon on 01/31/10 at 11:17 PM ET