Monday, November 13, 2006
What's Brian Burke Up To?
From TSN.ca:
This season, the Ducks currently have the best record in the league, yet sit comfortably at $4.143 million under the salary cap. Today's moves give them an extra $800,000 of cap space - or almost $5 million total.
Is this a precursor to a bigger trade? Or is this simply a matter of getting something in return for a player, Chistov, who doesn't fit in the Ducks' plans? (Insert Jan Bulis/Marc Chouinard comment here.) Or is he clearing up cap space to re-sign more key players - Giguere, Selanne, Dustin Penner, Ryan Shannon, etc. - who are free agents after the season?
Or is it all of the above?
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The Anaheim Ducks were busy on the trade front on Monday, sending forward Stanislav Chistov to the Boston Bruins for a 2007 or 2008 third-round draft pick and acquiring forward George Parros from the Colorado Avalanche for a second-round pick in 2007.Burke is one of the NHL's most astute general managers. Canucks fans know this because he built the team from a league bottom-feeder to being one of its most exciting and well-run teams; Ducks fans know this because he took the Ducks to the Western Conference final in his first year as their GM.
A third deal saw tough winger Todd Fedoruk go to the Philadelphia Flyers for a fourth-round draft pick in 2007.
The moves cleared US$800,000 of payroll from Anaheim's books. They added Parros' $450,000 salary while losing Fedoruk's $450,000 and Chistov's $800,000.
This season, the Ducks currently have the best record in the league, yet sit comfortably at $4.143 million under the salary cap. Today's moves give them an extra $800,000 of cap space - or almost $5 million total.
Is this a precursor to a bigger trade? Or is this simply a matter of getting something in return for a player, Chistov, who doesn't fit in the Ducks' plans? (Insert Jan Bulis/Marc Chouinard comment here.) Or is he clearing up cap space to re-sign more key players - Giguere, Selanne, Dustin Penner, Ryan Shannon, etc. - who are free agents after the season?
Or is it all of the above?
______________
Comments/Questions: Feel free to post in the comments section or email me at gocanucksgo10 (at) hotmail (dot) com.
Technorati Tags: NHL, hockey, Anaheim+Ducks, Brian+Burke
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