A Trade has happened...It's Montador

Chiarelli provided this update to Bish just a few minutes ago:

"Well, we made one trade that we can’t announce yet, so you’ll get that. It’s, again, it’s a depth trade, that trade, and we’re working on a couple of others right now. I think noon was a big turning point because waivers expired then, and some teams picked up guys and wanted to see if they picked them up or not. So that’s where we are right now, and we’re continuing to be in our War Room, and we’re plugging away here."

Well now it's been announced. I just received a text that the Bruins have acquired Steve Montador, defenseman from Anaheim, in exchange for Petteri Nokalainen. I'll analyze this more later, but on the surface i like the add. Montador has 4G 16A and a +14 in 65 games this year. He's also only 29.

Also, Leopold is heading back to Colorado and the Coyotes have sent Tellqvist to Buffalo for a 4th rounder. (Correction, Leopold was sent FROM the Avs to Calgary)

Calgary has also added Olli Jokinen from Phoenix, who are having a fucking fire sale.

Back to Basics

So, in thinking about the bad stretch of offense we've run into lately, i've realized that we just need to get hungry, angry and overall, feisty. Yea...i said it. It's time to intimidate our opponents again the way we did before Lucic got hurt in December.

Since i just don't have time to make a full post...i'll show you what i mean. Since the Whalers are tonight's opponent (i've decided that we'll no longer be calling them the Hurricanes in this space. In fact, we're calling Phoenix the Jets, Colorado the Nordiques and for fun, Dallas can be the Suck), here's a video of a great brawl from the late 80's. Watch for the little things, like Jay Miller giving a "how's your father" with his stick to some guy and Byers cursing out the guy he's fighting, quite audibly, on television.