Over the weekend, the Edmonton Oilers acquired Lubomir Visnovsky from my LA Kings for center Jarret Stoll and defenseman Matt Greene. I don't know if I'm going to recognize the team come November.
An All Star last year and one of the top scoring defensemen in the league, Visnovsky had signed a five year extension last July - so much for that. Clearly they're going for a youth movement, like Pittsburgh, who took their green squad to the Cup finals. Lubo became only defenseman in club history to lead the team in scoring with a career high 67 points in '05-'06, which is great, but his dealing with the trade of Cammalleri clears $11 million in salary cap space for a hopefully big splash in the free agent market tomorrow.
In for '08
RW Brad Richardson
C Jarret Stoll
D Matt Greene
?
Out for '08
G Dan Clouiter
D Brad Stuart
RW Mike Cammalleri
LW Ladislav Nagy
D Lubomir Visnovsky
Coach Marc Crawford
An All Star last year and one of the top scoring defensemen in the league, Visnovsky had signed a five year extension last July - so much for that. Clearly they're going for a youth movement, like Pittsburgh, who took their green squad to the Cup finals. Lubo became only defenseman in club history to lead the team in scoring with a career high 67 points in '05-'06, which is great, but his dealing with the trade of Cammalleri clears $11 million in salary cap space for a hopefully big splash in the free agent market tomorrow.In for '08
RW Brad Richardson
C Jarret Stoll
D Matt Greene
?
Out for '08
G Dan Clouiter
D Brad Stuart
RW Mike Cammalleri
LW Ladislav Nagy
D Lubomir Visnovsky
Coach Marc Crawford
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