Mike Cammalleri traded for Rene Bourque

Mike Cammalleri was traded to the Calgary Flames and in return the Montreal Canadiens got Rene Bourque and it looks like a head scratchier for both teams.

So the Montreal Canadiens get Rene Bourque who has a cap hit of 3.3 million dollars for the next 4 seasons and it gives the Canadiens 8.2 million dollar cap hit @ the trade deadline which might mean they go after Vincent Lecavalier at the trade deadline. This because the Lightening maybe out of the playoffs and Montreal need a good pub after a non-french speaking head coach and then they dressed Cammalleri for a game in Boston last night and then vanished after the second period from the bench and sent him back to the locker room and sent back to the hotel and nobody was talking after the game and the media was not allowed into the Canadiens' room for a long while. Rene Bourgue right now is suspended for 5 games for elbowing Nicholas Backstrom in the head and will miss Saturday's Canadiens game against the Senators and big reason for the trade was Cammalleri comments the day before when he said “We prepare for our games like losers. We play like losers. So it’s no wonder why we lose.” about the Canadiens players and it may of been a hasty move and it may all come down to the second round pick in 2013 draft.

Then there is the Calgary Flames who now have Cammalleri who they had for the end of the 2008-09 season and now have two forwards with cap hits of at least 6 million in Jerome Iginla and Cammalleri who are very good friends and means the Iginla will not be traded from the Flames but they will need to make a salary dump and it might mean that Jay Bouwmeester is going to be out of town if they can find a trade partner. If Iginla and Cammalleri are put together they may pick up the struggling offense as the Flames and Canadiens both have scored 110 goals this season with the Flames playing two more games and there goals a game is fifth worse in the league with the worse teams in the league below them with the exception of the Wild as they are ahead of Columbus, Kings, and Islanders. The thing is if Cammalleri does not better then his 22 points in 38 games then the Flames will have two seasons of Cammalleri @ a cap hit 6 million which will tie their hands in moves going forward but if plays like he did in one season in Calgary (a career high with 39 goals and 43 assists in 81 games) it may get the Flames into the playoffs.

It is going to be interesting going forward

Tom Mehegan