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by Alanah McGinley on 08/22/08 at 03:16 PM ET
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From Damian Cristodero at Lightning Strikes,
It has been seven years since Lightning superstar Vinny Lecavalier almost was traded to the Maple Leafs, and when I say almost, I mean it. Former Lightning president Ron Campbell, who on Friday was named a senior adviser to the new ownership group spoke at length for the first time about what almost went down in December 2001.
Campbell has been credited with stopping the deal that would have brought Nik Antropov, Tomas Hoglund, Tomas Kaberle and either then-prospect Brad Boyes or a first-round draft choice.
“I didn’t stop the trade, per se,” Campbell said. “I stopped the conference call.”
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The irony of the situation is that, all things considered, getting Kaberle, who’s become a stalwart defenceman (arguably the only defenceman who can play his position, and he’s a guaranteed 50-point-producer), Boyes, who’s projecting as a 25-goal, 65-point player, Antropov, whose injuries are giving way to a pretty decent two-way player who puts up 50 points when he’s healthy, and the draft pick that produced Alex Steen, who’s basically Thomas Steen II...And that’s not as lopsided a trade as one would imagine.
Posted by George James Malik from South Lyon, MI on 08/22/08 at 03:47 PM ET
on paper it’s a balanced trade; but do the lightning win the cup in 2004 with nik antropov instead of vinny?
a package of talent may be equal value to a superstar on paper, but on the ice it’s a very different story…
Posted by fredster from London on 08/22/08 at 06:38 PM ET
toronto would have won that trade.
Posted by Hippy Dave from San Francisco by way of Detroit on 08/25/08 at 03:44 AM ET
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