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Trade Talk
Bonehead slept well last night, and even beat his assistant Jo to the office by 15 minutes. But he didn't beat everybody into the building...
Coach Stewart and Coach McCabe are both in the "War Room" poring over computer printouts of the Bruins tendencies and Corsi numbers. Bonehead sits down with the file Jo left him last night, and discusses it;s contents with them. Coach McCabe is pretty well resigned that D Kulikov is getting shipped out to make room for Jovanovski, but wonders if we have enough defense depth for the season. Coach Ramsay is openly excited to see the possibility of all three Maple Leafs forwards added to the Panthers roster, and even offers that another trade could be made for a top 4 defenseman if the Maple Leaf trade goes through.
Bonehead is wating them out and finally asks the million dollar question... "Who do we add to this Toronto deal to get it done?" Coach Ramsay immediately adds "the rights to C Pakarinen" since we are going to lose him after the season anyway"... McCabe agrees, and after some thoughts, stuns both men when he offers "we can restructure the Sharks deal too" Bonehead hasn't considered this and looks at McCabe...
McCabe goes to the whiteboard and marks in the Toronto players and then moves the lines around leaving Kopecky as the odd forward out. "Salary wise it works and by removing Kulikov and adding Kopecky to the Sharks trade - we are definitely better off offensively..." Coach Ramsay laughs at the double meaning, and Bonehead tells McCabe to leave it up on the board for the rest of the coaches.
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