Month: March 2010

The Canucks have acquired Yan Stastny from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for Pierre-Cedric Labrie.

Jordan Owens has also been traded from the Rangers to the Red Wings in exchange for Kris Newbury.

The Phoenix Coyotes have traded Peter Mueller and Kevin Porter to Colorado in exchange for Wojtek Wolski. Finally our first “real” trade of the day, let’s hope there’s more coming.

The Washington Capitals acquire Scott Walker from the Carolina Hurricanes for a 7th round pick.

Walker will add a little depth to the Caps but he has 5 points in 33 games this year so don’t expect him to have a major impact. He could nonetheless be a decent 4th line player for the Capitals in the playoffs.

Carolina Hurricanes trade Aaron Ward to the Anaheim Ducks for Justin Pogge and a 4th round pick in 2010.

Another minor deal for a defensemen.

Bruins acquire Dennis Seidenberg and Matt Bartowski from Florida for Craig Weller, Byron Bitz and a 2nd round pick.

The price for Seidenberg was a little higher than for other defensemen (Leopold and Sutton) but seems like a deal that could help both teams. The Bruins needed a defenseman but a pretty nice pickup for the Panthers considering Seidenberg is a UFA at the end of the year.

The Leafs have traded Martin Skoula to the New Jersey Devils for a 5th round pick in 2010.

This deal was expected as the Leafs had no use for Skoula, he will be a UFA at the end of the year.

Derek Morris has been traded to Phoenix for a 4th round draft pick in 2011. Don’t think anyone could have predicted the Coyotes being buyers and the Bruins sellers before the season started. Good deal for the Coyotes, can’t hurt them to have Morris back.

Let’s hope this gets things going for the rest of the day.

A surprising number of deals have happened in the two day prior to the deadline, let’s hope it is a sign of things to come. The biggest deal so far is the trade of Alex Ponikarovsky to Pittsburgh in exchange for Martin Skoula and Luca Caputi. Three other Canadian teams made deals yesterday; the biggest of them was Andy Sutton going to Ottawa in exchange for a 2nd round pick. New Montreal Canadiens GM Pierre Gauthier made his second deal in a few weeks as he dealt Matt D’Agostini to St. Louis for Aaron Palushaj and the Oilers acquired Matt Marquardt from the Bruins for Cody Wild. Here are the other minor deals that happened yesterday:
-Anaheim trades Steve Kampfer to Boston for a conditional 4th round pick.
-Anaheim trades Nick Boynton to Chicago for future considerations.
-NY Islanders trade Brett Westgarth to San Jose for a conditional pick.

We’re still waiting for our first deal on Trade Deadline Day, we’ll be with you all day long to bring you the news.

The first few deals happened yesterday as the Olympic break freeze was lifted. First off, Jordan Leopold was traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for a 2nd round pick; Denis Grebeshkov was also dealt for a 2nd round pick to the Nashville Predators. Three other minor deals happened yesterday:
-St. Louis trades Hannu Toivonen and Danny Richmond to Chicago for Joe Fallon.
-Columbus trades Dylan Reese to NY Islanders for Greg Moore.
-Atlanta trades Nathan Oystrick and a conditional pick in 2011 to Atlanta for Evgeny Artyukhin.

Nothing major has happened as of yet but we expect things to get exciting tomorrow. We know that the Edmonton Oilers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Toronto Maple Leafs and Carolina Hurricaned will all be sellers. This means that you can expect guys like Fernando Pisani, Mike Comrie, Fredrik Modin, Raffi Torres, Milan Jurcina, Lee Stempniak, Alexei Ponikarovsky, Mike Van Ryn, Ray Whitney, Scott Walker, Aaron Ward and Joe Corvo to be dealt tomorrow. All these guys are on teams that are clearly sellers and who will be Unrestricted Free Agents at the end of the season. It will be interesting to see if other teams that are near the playoffs such as the Tampa Bay Lightning deal guys like Jeff Halpern and Alex Tanguay.

I’d also like to announce that Sports Jerseys Canada Blog will follow all the NHL Trade Deadline action starting at 10:00AM and post deals the minute they happen. We invite you to follow us all day long tomorrow.