VFMS Podcast: March 3, 2010 (Click To Download)
The March 3nd episode of the VFMS Podcast is up for your listening pleasure. There are a few different ways to listen. You can either stream the show directly from your computer to your ears at BlogTalkRadio. If you’re into downloading or subscribing to podcasts for your iPod, all you have to do is click the handy iTunes link once you get to the show’s page. And if you want to download it, you can do that too. Of course, you can also bypass the site all together and go straight to iTunes.
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The NHL Trade Deadline. It’s an adult hockey fan’s version of Christmas morning. Did you get all the gifts you wanted for your team? Did you want a scoring winger or a puck moving defenseman under your Christmas tree? After 55 players and 25 draft picks exchanged hands in 31 trades, there was something for everyone at this year’s trade deadline. And of course, we’re here to figure out what it all means… and make fun of some teams while we’re at it. Would you expect anything less?
Some teams look like they’re ready to have a firesale and some teams are ready to make a Stanley Cup push. We’ll talk about them too. As you listen to us talk hockey on the podcast, here are a few links that we referenced and/or go with our topic.
Also, Chris Wassel from The Program podcast and TheHockeyProgram.net dropped in to give us a little East coast perspective.
All of our Trade Deadline Cheat Sheets. You can find a fairly brief overview for all 30 teams. Who has cap space? Who has prospects? Who is buying and who is selling? All 30 teams—broken down by division. You can see if they did what they needed to do or if they sat on the sidelines with their hands tied behind their backs.
Eastern Conference
Atlantic Division
Northeast Division
Southeast Division
Western Conference
Pacific Division
Central Division
Northwest Division
Here are some other links that should digest the action of the Trade Deadline.
A list of each and every trade this week, including tons of links to keep you entertained.
Breaking Down The Stretch Drive (NHL.com)
Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli: “We’d want to get some type of top-nine forward that has an offensive bent to his game… But there aren’t many of those guys out there.” (Boston Herald). So instead, they traded a defenseman, added a defenseman and basically ran in place.
Coyotes GM said that they wouldn’t trade away any of their top assets for a big deadline acquisition. He insisted that they wouldn’t make the trades because teams were asking for too much in return in any trade—and insisted that it had nothing to do with money. All of that was via the Arizona Republic. Then, Don Maloney and the Phoenix Coyotes were arguably the most active team on Deadline Day. I guess they were ready to make deals and the asking price was not too high.
How far out on the limb did this guy have to go to come up with this? From the “No Shit, Sherlock” category: The Oilers are looking to deal some players before the deadline. (The Globe and Mail). Then they went on to try to trade their best defenseman (successfully) and their unproductive captain (unsuccessfully).
Rick DiPietro is hurt. Again. So yeah, those other two goaltenders they have? They didn’t go anywhere. (Newsday)
The Atlanta Thrashers picked up a 48-year-old AHL defenseman. Seriously, the man was alive for the Cuban Missile Crisis. (Blueland Blog)
And finally, of course, everyone’s premature race to grade the deadline performances. (You know, like this podcast)
Puck Daddy’s 2010 NHL Trade Deadline Report Cards (Puck Daddy)
“Anaheim Ducks one of the winners on Trade Deadline Day” (Mucking and Grinding)
Winners and Losers in the East and West from recent guest, Brandon Worley at NBC’s Pro Hockey Talk.
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Next week, we’ll be back at our usual time (8:00 PST / 11:00 EST on Tuesday, March 9th). We’ll have a lot of Pacific Division stuff to catch up on then—so come back and hear us do, whatever it is that we do. With all of the action around the Pacific on Deadline Day, it should be interesting to see how the new acquisitions fit with their new teams. We’ll judge swiftly and harshly (mostly, because that makes for better radio).
As always, you can find me on Twitter at @ViewFromMySeats and my co-host Jennifer Shaw at @gimmeapuck. For those of you that prefer Facebook, we have you covered there too!
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Matt Reitz
Matt Reitz is an NHL Writer for ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports and the Editor-In-Chief here at ViewFromMySeats.com. When he's not shoving a mic in the face of NHLers or explaining why home teams should wear white, he's usually trying to figure out what song to play next on his iPod. It's a never-ending job.
