XMP3 Contest winner is...

...Brent G! Who guessed Leopold outright. Congrats, Brent, and make sure to send me your details via email so I can ship all the fancy technological wonderfulness your way.

Thanks for playing everyone. It was interesting right up until the last day.

Contest update

Here is a collection of the predictions to date:

1.) Brent G - Scottie Upshall and Jordan Leopold

2.) Matt - Johan Hedberg and Manny Legace

3.) Motherpucker - Doug Weight

4.) Steal Thunder - Marc Denis

5.) Tyers - David Booth and Craig Anderson

6.) Kyle - Colby Armstrong and Marty Reasoner

7.) Jen - Andy McDonald

8.) Ben - Philippe Boucher and Dan Hamhuis

9.) Johnny Puck - Andrew Raycroft (shudder) and O'Donnel

10.) Ian H - Lecavalier and Bouwmeester

11.) Walkinvisible - Bobby Boucher and Emery or any guy named "Manny"

12.) Duncan - Martin St. Louis

13.) Subversive - Heatley and Erik Christensen

14.) Ngthagg - Moen and Hunter

15.) Arik - Ryan Suter and Sullivan

16.) Shep - Skrastins and Tallinder

17.) Hacker's in - Teppo Numminen

18.) C of Red - Dubinsky and Frenchy Beauchemin

19.) Lawrence - Neil and Woywitka

Let me know if Im mistaken or there's any exclusions.

I thought we might get a winner there with all the Martin Gerber talk, but that (happily) turned out to be little more than rumors.

Still time to get predictions in if you haven't already.

XMP3 Contest Update

Here are some of the trade predictions proffered by the commentariat so far -

Goalies:

Johan Hedberg, Manny Legace, Marc Denis, Andrew Raycroft, Olaf Kolzig, Ray Emery, Kevin Weekes, Craig Anderson

After Cumac got shelled, looks like there's lots of support for a veteran back-up.

Defensemen:

Jordan Leopold, Phillipe Boucher, Dan Hamhuis, Jay Bouwmeester

Interesting choices. Seeing Leopold here again would be great.

Forwards:

Scottie Upshall, Doug Weight, David Booth (this would rule), Colby Armstrong, Marty Reasoner, Andy McDonald, Vincent Lecavalier, Martin St. Louis, Dany Heatley (!) and Erik Christensen

From the mundane to the spectacular.

Lots of interesting choices here. The spread is a wide one, so someone is bound to win. Feel free to guess if you haven't already since the contest is still live. Also, let me know if I've missed anyone...

XMP3 Contest - Predict Sutters next move

So I've settled on a "guess the trade!" competition to give away the XMP3 player and car install kit. I think that will ensure some decent involvement as well as yield some potentially interesting discussion material.

Rules:

1.) Guess a specific player that will be a Flame by the trade deadline. No need to guess the actual transaction (such as who/what the Flames will be giving up in return).

2.) If no one guesses the player in particular, entries will be graded on how "close" they were to the actual guy in question. Proximity will be determined by:

- First, position: center, winger, defenseman, goalie, etc.
- Second, position in the line-up: first line center, top six winger, bottom two defenseman, back-up goalie, etc.
- Third tie-breaker would be salary: the guess with the closest cap hit to the actual player wins it.

Is that clear?

3.) This applies to Sutter's next trade between now and the deadline. Meaning the contest is over after the first deal, even if Daz has a couple up his sleeve. It, however, will not apply to a salary dump situation (ie: if Sutter trades Vandermeer for futures). A flesh and blood, NHL ready player has to be coming back in the swap.

4.) If someone has already guessed a player, that takes him out of the running: meaning, 4 people can't all guess Jay Bouwmeester. So get your guesses in early.

5.) Let's limit the entries here folks. There'll be no Eklund-style throwing stuff against a wall to see what sticks. Therefore, please sign in under some sort of name or alias to submit your guess in the comments. You can email me your guess if you want as well. Let's say a max of two guesses per entrant.

6.) The contest is valid up until the trade is made, whenever that will be.

Feel free to begin guessing in the comments to this post. I'll probably make a post detailing the various predictions in the near future.