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Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Blogging on deadline day
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Good morning — just wanted to get the blogging started early today in the final hours before the trade deadline expires. Yes, I think the Thrashers have another move left - albeit nothing major - depending on how things go on the waiver wire (Petr Cajanek maybe?).
I’m still in Boston - couldn’t find a flight out of here last night that gave me time to cover the game and get to the airport on time, so it’s not exactly an ideal situation. We start boarding here at 8:30 a.m., then I’m out of commission until noon. I’m sure there’s a good scientific reason why it takes 45 minutes longer to get to Atlanta from Boston than it does to get to Boston from Atlanta, tradewinds or something, but right now I’m not exactly thrilled — hey Don, if you’re reading this, try not to make any moves until I land in Atlanta. I appreciate your cooperation.
In the meantime, I’m going to put a couple calls out here this morning. I’ll try to update this blog on the comments section all day as I hear anything. As I type this, there are conflicting reports about Gary Roberts and him waiving his no-trade clause to finalize the deal to Pittsburgh. TSN says it’s a done deal, while hockeybuzz.com says Roberts refused. A few people I’ve talked to that would know these kinds of things were inclined to think that Roberts would decline a deal to Pittsburgh - but who knows?
The Canucks helped themselves yesterday, landing a guy some of you wanted Waddell to look at.
There was a three-way deal with Wings, Flyers and Blackhawks.
Jeremy Rutherford reports that Bill Guerin still hasn’t ruled out a contract extension in St. Louis. But then again, why would you extend his deal when you can just trade him and resign him in the summer? Worked for Doug Weight. Shouldn’t there be rules against that kind of thing?
