Coyotes Trade Jokinen to Calgary - Trade Deadline Deal #2
by Travis Hair on Mar 4, 2009 10:42 PM MST
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The Trade
To Calgary:
2009 3rd Rd. Pick AND
To Phoenix:
Conditional 1st Round Pick (CAL chooses 2009 or 2010 later) AND
*Now that i'm both home, and fed I can actually get all this stuff done!
This deal was probably the biggest deal of deadline day. Scratch that. It WAS the biggest. Phoenix dealt Olli Jokinen (softOllio, Stay-Puft, et al.) and a 2009 3rd Rd. Pick to Calgary for Matthew Lombardi, Brandon Prust and a 1st Rounder. Not a bad haul. This should make a lot of fans here in the desert pretty happy. For some reason Olli never really fit in here. There are reports that he didn't really get along with the younger guys for some reason, though Gretzky says it isn't so. At the same time he never really connected with the fans here either. They were very excited to have another star player to play alongside Shane Doan, but it never really materialized. Instead they got a guy that even at 21-21-42 didn't seem to really care one way or the other. He'd go out and play without a whole lot of effort or grit or whatever term you like for finding a way to win. It's like he was just waiting for something that never came. Whatever it was it wasn't here and so they shipped him and his 5.25 million to Calgary. Congrats. You get to taste the playoffs Olli, enjoy it until you get beat down in round 1.
In return for Olli the Alien we got Matthew Lombardi and Brandon Prust. Oh and John Tavares (If Garth Snow will wake up to the fact that our 1st rounder and the Calgary 1st are better than his one first rounder). Lombardi is a solid center who is well liked by Flames fans like the ones over at Matchsticks and Gasoline. Prust is apperently having some concussion issues from getting hit in the head repeatedly. He'll drop the gloves at times, but isn't as scrappy as Carcillo who we traded away later. (He's up next.)
All in all I'd say we did pretty well in this trade we got rid of one guy that wasn't working out pick up one solid guy in Lombardi, a project in Prust and a 1st rounder.
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Who doesn't want to do their part to help cure a cancer?
Takin over the NHL, 1 blocked shot at a time... Go Z!
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The Virgin Hockey Fan. for those of us that don't know what we're doing.
P.S. The husband may or may not be the blog owner....
The Virgin Hockey Fan. for those of us that don't know what we're doing.
sighhh
I had such high hopes for Olli here in Phoenix. But if he’s a cancer, he’s a cancer. Glad I wore my St. Patty’s Day Jokinen shirt last week, before he got traded… lol he amused me, the way he used to hide behind Carcillo or Fedoruk and talk smack to the opposing team’s players. hahaha made me laugh….
I don't know how I feel about that.
Can’t Z wear the A?
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Iz okay
Z will get hiz A one day. Rhino iz good guy and will help the youngins. Can speak up to refs, hold his own w/ the other vets as well. Good A wearer… for now, Z can haz Jovo’s A later.
Takin over the NHL, 1 blocked shot at a time... Go Z!
by Monique Reaux on Mar 5, 2009 7:49 AM MST up reply actions
Happy to see him gone...
If there is any truth to the rumors, even if he wasn’t so bad, but just a little bad with younger guys, then he was a terrible fit for this team. It’s obvious that Doan and Jovo (and D-Mo) really got along with the kids, were willing to go the extra mile to make them feel comfortable and teach them things along the way about playing in the NHL. They brought Olie in specifically to do that, be a mentor to guys like Turris and Tiki, and he clearly failed miserably. Hopefully now these guys will develop into the players they have the potential to be…
World Ph*cking Champs! That was fun - let's do it again...
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