The trade dust has settled and a few more pieces have been added to the convoluted puzzle that is the current Calgary Flames. The forward problem was partially taken care of when Disting Boyd was traded away to the Nashville Predators for a lowly fourth round pick. Calgary is short on picks, and they are also short on NHL caliber players chosen from drafts in the past. With Dion Phaneuf and Dustin Boyd gone, there are no currently Flames on the roster that Sutter successfully drafted. That’s not entirely true as we’ve called up Mikael Backlund so that would be one.
In another surprising move Calgary picked up even more salary on the D-line (I thought we traded Phaneuf to get away from that) by trading for veteran Steve Staois from the Oilers. It’s rare to see these two teams involved in a trade; the last time was Lombardi / Stoll draft swap. Staois will join the team and won’t likely play tonight. Going the other way was Aaron Johnson AND a draft pick (there goes another one).
Your thoughts on the Flames trades? I think the team is certainly better but we’re going to run into salary problems yet again this year if players go down with injuries.
This is getting out of hand, someone has got to get rid of Sutter and his insane trades, Dustin Boyyd for a 4th round pick,trading a young Mcelhinney for an old really average Finn, name does not matter,adding Freddie Sjostrom and a very good D prospect 6’4″ and 236lb for two ham and egger forwards for Dion, please get rid of him, shades of 1981, who is he really under contract to?
I Agree.. lets ship him out.. classic sutter though makes horrible trades.. toskila is the worst trade of today for us.. and giving the enemy such an amazing deal? the leafs screwed us over and now the oilers.. more crappy leafs players.. the team is almost last in the standings and we are getting their players why?
The worst part is there are rumors that GMs out there didn’t know Phaneuf was available and would’ve given up MUCH more than the garbage we got from Toronto.