Summary
Guess Ted Leonsis wasn't kidding last week when told me his general manager, George McPhee, had "the budget and the wherewithal" to upgrade the Capitals at the trading deadline. Suddenly yesterday the Caps had three new players, two of them certified Big Names and all of them, the front office hopes, capable of putting the club back on the playoff path.
As deadline deals go, it isn't quite as cataclysmic as the one David Poile pulled off years ago, the blockbuster that sent Vezina Trophy winner Jim Carey, Jason Allison and Anson Carter to Boston for Adam Oates, Rick Tocchet and Bill Ranford, but it's still pretty stunning. In recent years, after all, the Capitals have been a veritable Clearance Warehouse for NHL GMs, yet here they are reversing roles and parting with a bit of their future to acquire goalie Cristobal Huet from Montreal (for an '09 second-round pick) and center Sergei Fedorov from Columbus (for their second-rounder last year, defenseman Theo Ruth of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish).See the full content of this document
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A Little Spree Can Net a Lot of Momentum
Their other transaction, 27-year-old left wing Matt Pettinger to Vancouver for 29-year-old left wing Matt Cooke, is one of those change-of-scenery moves that could help both teams or neither. At the very least, though...
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