Jokinen and Prust to Rangers for Higgins and Kotalik
There will be another post if-and-when this trade goes down, but my initial reaction is mostly confusion.
The Phaneuf trade screams that the Flames want to make a cup run this season, this trade suggests otherwise. Prust, a real heart and soul guy, can't feel welcome after being traded for a second time in two years.
Kotalik is awful, and a terrible contract. These (past and pending) trades are a indictment of Bourque and Glencross, wingers this blogger assumed would be $3M 2nd line wingers next year. If those roles are filled by Hagman and Kotalik then we're looking at these guys being first liners or off the roster.
I hope this move falls through or there is another move coming after this. This team isn't appreciably more talented in the short term, are smaller and less mean, and clearly the Flames are worse in the long term.
This post is all contingent on this trade going through, and it sounds like the phones are off until after tonight's game. Stay tuned....
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