Are we seeing the calm before the storm? Since the Jarome Iginla trade, things have slowed down a little. Yesterday saw a couple of interesting deals as Calgary continued their fire sale by trading Jay Bouwmeester to St. Louis. The Blues had earlier acquired Jordan Leopold from Buffalo so their defense will be much improved going into the playoffs. Buffalo had also traded Robyn Regehr to the Kings yesterday and they may not be done yet with bigger names likely to follow soon.
Speaking of big names, today saw the first major deal since the Iginla trade. The Boston Bruins, who lost out on Iginla when they were sure he was theirs, landed Jaromir Jagr from the Dallas Stars for the usual price of draft picks and prospects. Dallas also traded Derek Roy to Vancouver earlier today.
So that's where we stand with less than 24 hours to go before the deadline ends. There's still a few intriguing names out there that may or may not be moved including Ryane Clowe (San Jose), Jason Pominville (Buffalo), Mike Ribeiro (Washington), anyone that might be left in Calgary, and a handful of veteran goalies that are sure to dominate the discussions tomorrow, including Mikka Kiprusoff, Roberto Luongo, Nikolai Khabibulin, Jonathan Bernier, Ben Bishop, and Ryan Miller. Look for at least 2 of them, and possibly more, to move tomorrow. This should be a lot of fun. Keep it here for full details. If you want to follow the action online, a great place I've found is on the Yahoo Sports site where a panel of experts from Canada and US are keeping a running Twitter tab on all the movement.
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