The Vancouver Canucks made two deals on the deadline
The Canucks got younger picking up Zack Kassian who is a right winger and had 26 points in 30 games with the Rochester Americans and 7 points in 27 games with the Buffalo Sabres and they also picked up Marc-Andre Gragnani who will be 25 years-old soon and has played 59 games for the Sabres over the last four season including 44 games and 12 points this season. They gave up Center Cody Hodgson and has been with the Canucks all season (63 games) and has 16 goals and 17 assists for 33 points and is only just turned 22 and the Canucks also added defenseman Alex Sulzer to the deal and the 27-years-old who is with his fourth team in the past two seasons and has played a total of 74 games in the four seasons and has a total of 8 points.
The Canucks second trade was trading for Sami Pahlsson from the Blue Jackets who is a 34 year-old and he has played in the Stanley Cup Finals and won the Stanley Cup in '07 with the Anaheim Decks and gave up two fourth round picks.
Winnipeg Jets make a deal and a claim
Defenseman JOHNNY ODUYA who has 13 points with the Jets in 62 games this season and the Jets traded him to the Chicago Blackhawks and in-change for a second and third draft picks in 2013 while they also claimed defenseman Grant Clitsome off waivers from the Blue Jackets and the 26-year-old has played 93 games for the Blue Jackets.
Calgary Flames still do not know if they are a player or a dealer
The Flames who are one of the oldest teams in the NHL but also have a chance to make the playoffs so they stood pat in the end and only resigned Tim Jackman to a two year contract extension so they still do not believe in getting younger so soon they will hit rock bottom and have to strip the team apart to get better.
Ottawa Senators fill voids in their lineup for very little
Today the Sens added Matt Gilroy to their D-line and he was a plus 2 for a weak Lightening defense who have given up a league high 209 goals and has 17 points this season in 53 games and they sent the Lightening BRIAN LEE who has played parts of five seasons with the Senators and he is only 24 years old and played 167 games for the team.
They also traded for Goalie Ben Bishop yesterday for a second round draft in 2013 for insurance reasons after Craig Anderson cut himself in his kitchen a few days ago and Bishop is an insurance policy for AHL at least.
The Edmonton Oilers trade a D-man for a D-man
So the Oilers decided to trade TOM GILBERT to the Minnesota Wild for NICK SCHULTZ and was to get more experienced on the back end because even though they are both 29 SCHULTZ has played almost twice as many games (743 - 384) and it could help give some leadership to the back end which is right now inexperienced.
The Montreal Canadiens have no more Kostitsyn
The Canadiens traded Andrei Kostitsyn to Nashville who have decided to pickup Candiens for their playoff and to get the confidence of Shea Weber and Ryan Suter as they had already made a trade for Hal Gil last week. The Canadiens are given a couple of resources to their next GM as they now have three second round picks in 2013 while also picked up some toughness off the wire by claiming Brad Staubitz who will bring some size and toughness to the Canadiens who are try to get tougher to help the tough Habs players and his 432 penalty minutes in 196 NHL games will do something I do not know what.
The Leafs are sticking to their plan
Burke has all the confidence in James Reimer even if the fans do not and he says that he thinking about moving the Leafs trade deadline up 10 days just like their no movement freeze in December is 10 days before the rest of the league and this is because the trade deadline in Toronto is a zoo and its hard to do business. The Leafs trade of the day was sending Keith Aulie to the Lightening for a 20 year old named Carter Ashton who has been playing in the WHL so may get at some point NHL debut with the Leafs.
Really quiet
Tom Mehegan
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