The Flames apparently pulled off a somewhat surprising trade today sending Montador (and prospect) to Florida for Kristian Huselius.
story---->here.
Im hoping Sutter can motivate the talented (but defensively-challenged) Swede to play up to his potential. If not, we may just end up with another underachieving, snake-bitten forward.
This recent acquisition sure does confuse the line combinations. Especially with the imminent return of Lombardi. We now have Iginla, Kobasew, Reinprecht, Langkow, Amonte, Lombardi and Huselius as pontential 1st/2nd liners (not to mention Simon and McCarty, who have both drawn some top-2-line-time this season). In addition, Calgary has Donovan, Yelle, Nilson, Ritchie, Macdonald, Simon, McCarty and Wiemer to fill out the final 2 lines. That's 15 forwards for 12 positions (14 until Lombo retruns). I guess there'll be 3 scratches every night. Until we can fool someone into taking Wiemer off our hands, that is.
As for the top 2 lines, does anyone want to hazard a guess as to what they'll be? Sutter mixes and matches so much each game, Im not even certain what they are right now, frankly...
Other NHL news:
- Of course, the Boston and San Jose trade. The early result is an unlikely 3-0 Boston victory over the Sens last night, with Sturm acquiring 2 points (goal and assist). Don't think anyone predicted that Heatley would have his point streak snapped by Boston.
- How's this for appropriate? The Blues scorers in their win over the BJ's last night included: Weight, Wideman and Tkachuck!
- Iginla's not the only big name player not scoring...apparently Lemieux is mired in the worst slump of his career with no goals in 7 games. Mario might just be getting too old for this game...Corsby's been held pointless over the last 3 games as well. Hopefully the Flames can help extend all of these streaks (besides Iginla's) with a win over the flightless birds on Saturday night.
