Gomez to Montreal for Higgins

I don't know what Montreal was thinking.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=283329

baa!!! hahahahaha!! Oh man. My day just got thirty times better.

From RDS:

Scott Gomez à Montréal Mardi 30 juin 2009/RDS.ca

Le Canadien a mis la main sur les attaquants Scott Gomez et Tom Pyatt et du défenseur Michael Busto des Rangers de New York en retour de l’attaquant Christopher Higgins et des défenseurs Ryan McDonagh, Pavel Valentenko et Doug Janik.

RDS a appris en primeur cette transaction.

Gomez touchera un salaire annuel de huit millions l'an prochain et il est sous contrat jusqu'en 2013-14.

L'an dernier, Gomez a récolté 16 buts et 42 passes en 77 rencontres.

Higgins quitte le Canadien après un séjour de quatre saisons à Montréal. Il a disputé 282 parties dans la LNH récoltant 84 buts et 67 aides (151 points).

Plus de détails à venir

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Pavel Valentenko was considered one of the Habs' bright prospects on D, as was McDonagh.

There may be more activity as a result...

Wow... Dumb Habs

Are you freaken kiddin' me? For Christ sakes ...

Chris Higgins + Ryan McDonagh????

Oh Bob

I guess that's what happens when you have too much cap space and 0 N1 Center.

rangers making room to accommodate heatley ????

Hockeyhero22000 wrote:rangers making room to accommodate heatley ????

looks like it!

Who would be coming back? (Staal please????)

Gainey gets an 'impact player' in Gomez...but this may be a prelude to his pitch for the Sedins.

Gomez never lived up to expectations in NY, but he was an excellent player in New Jersey, so perhaps Bob has plans...

Higgins has been mentioned in trade talks for some time now...not surprising he has been moved. A former 25-plus goal man, he may get a chance to relaunch with Tortorella.

Higgins + Dubinsky

Hahaha, Healtley is all but a Ranger.

Neely4Life wrote:Hahaha, Healtley is all but a Ranger.

have fun with Torts Dany!

Haha, seriously. No one else in NYR to take his ice time either though...

Well its about time someone makes a diddling move .... i'm not really impressed though, what de ..... McDonaugh too? cmon ...

i know very unreliable source and it pretty much kills the rumour but eklund says a heatley deal should be going down very soon

Wow, nice deal for the Rangers, but Montreal had to do something. They get the center they wanted (I assume they couldn't get Vinny), now they'll have to see what they can do on July 1.

Montreal definitely had to give up a lot, but they can't attract UFAs, so, that's the price.

Crazy times! Good for Sather. Possibly the first good move he's made in 5 years.

marakh wrote:Higgins + Dubinsky

That could very well be the move. Murray definitely didn't want Gomez.

HowieMorenz wrote:Well its about time someone makes a diddling move .... i'm not really impressed though, what de ..... McDonaugh too? cmon ...

I like it personally. With no impact centers, they went and got an excellent player. Is he worth 7 million? Definitely not, but he's worth something. Nice player. Waived his NTC to play in Montreal.

Nice trade IMO.

Fakelun's rumor makes no sense about heatley going to the NYR. They have nothing really I can see Ottawa wanting outside of Staal. All their top prospects are D men other than a couple of russian forwards.

SpezDispenser wrote:Wow, nice deal for the Rangers, but Montreal had to do something. They get the center they wanted (I assume they couldn't get Vinny), now they'll have to see what they can do on July 1.

Montreal definitely had to give up a lot, but they can't attract UFAs, so, that's the price.

Crazy times! Good for Sather. Possibly the first good move he's made in 5 years.

Gomez won a few Stanley Cups in New Jersey...works his tail off. He'll do well with Bob and Jacques.

Slats swung himself a pretty sweet deal here...let's see what he does next.

jamvan wrote:

marakh wrote:Higgins + Dubinsky

That could very well be the move. Murray definitely didn't want Gomez.

I'm not big on Higgins. I'd rather a prospect than him.

Grachev is pretty sick... saw him at the tourny and thought he was just as good as any player in that tourny. Really impressed with him, didnt dissapear in the Semi's either...

1st, Staal, Grachev, sign me up.

SpezDispenser wrote:Wow, nice deal for the Rangers, but Montreal had to do something. They get the center they wanted (I assume they couldn't get Vinny), now they'll have to see what they can do on July 1.

Montreal definitely had to give up a lot, but they can't attract UFAs, so, that's the price.

Crazy times! Good for Sather. Possibly the first good move he's made in 5 years.

Good move? I'd chaulk it up to more of dumping one of his many mistakes (Redden, Antripov, Gomez, Drury and maybe soon to be Heatley.

Dawg's Wife wrote:Fakelun's rumor makes no sense about heatley going to the NYR. They have nothing really I can see Ottawa wanting outside of Staal. All their top prospects are D men other than a couple of russian forwards.

Staal, Grachev/Anisimov and a carrot. Higgins will do. cool)

jamvan wrote:Good move? I'd chaulk it up to more of dumping one of his many mistakes (Redden, Antripov, Gomez, Drury and maybe soon to be Heatley.

Give him credit for fixing one of his mistakes though. It couldn't have been easy to move Gomez.

Higgins is an RFA isn't he? I think there might be a sign and trade?

SpezDispenser wrote:

jamvan wrote:Good move? I'd chaulk it up to more of dumping one of his many mistakes (Redden, Antripov, Gomez, Drury and maybe soon to be Heatley.

Give him credit for fixing one of his mistakes though. It couldn't have been easy to move Gomez.

I wouldn't call it fixing it. I won't give him credit for this move. I can't. Something is definitly brewing our way though.

jamvan wrote:Higgins is an RFA isn't he? I think there might be a sign and trade?

Yes, to us. He's coming I think. Along with one of the two Russian prospects and something out of left field. Hopefully not Zherdev, unless the Sens' scouts like him and don't see him as a guy who will give up. And also depending on how much he wants.

jamvan wrote:Give him credit for fixing one of his mistakes though. It couldn't have been easy to move Gomez.

I wouldn't call it fixing it. I won't give him credit for this move. I can't. Something is definitly brewing our way though.[/quote]

Yep. Seems imminent. Damn, I wanted Phaneuf after all that. :^^^^: Staal, Higgins and someone else I would imagine. Should happen soon too.

RobbyJ wrote:

jamvan wrote:

marakh wrote:Higgins + Dubinsky

That could very well be the move. Murray definitely didn't want Gomez.

I'm not big on Higgins. I'd rather a prospect than him.

He's good and physical. Can score 25 (Hat trick VS Sens las season).
Consistency problems, but the main reason = has been bounced from line 1 to 3 because Carbonneau was weird with his line combinations.

Just imagine = Higgins on line one with Alfie and Spezza.
We sign a UFA on line 2 to play with Dubinsky and another guy, whoever.
We keep FFS on line 3.

That's some depth.

I wouldn't mind Grachev or Anisimov, but Sather won't give them.

SpezDispenser wrote:

Dawg's Wife wrote:Fakelun's rumor makes no sense about heatley going to the NYR. They have nothing really I can see Ottawa wanting outside of Staal. All their top prospects are D men other than a couple of russian forwards.

Staal, Grachev/Anisimov and a carrot. Higgins will do. cool)

I'll defer to you guys, I know nothing of them and Dawg is still holed up doing the FA thing.

marakh wrote:He's good and physical. Can score 25 (Hat trick VS Sens las season).
Consistency problems, but the main reason = has been bounced from line 1 to 3 because Carbonneau was weird with his line combinations.

Just imagine = Higgins on line one with Alfie and Spezza.
We sign a UFA on line 2 to play with Dubinsky and another guy, whoever.
We keep FFS on line 3.

That's some depth.

I wouldn't mind Grachev or Anisimov, but Sather won't give them.

He'll give one of those guys up, but he won't give up Dubinsky. So it'll be Staal/Dubinsky(if he gives him up), one of the Ruskies and Higgins.

I'm pretty confident that this is the new plan A and that plan B is Calgary.

Let's do this.

SpezDispenser wrote:

jamvan wrote:Give him credit for fixing one of his mistakes though. It couldn't have been easy to move Gomez.

I wouldn't call it fixing it. I won't give him credit for this move. I can't. Something is definitly brewing our way though.

Yep. Seems imminent. Damn, I wanted Phaneuf after all that. :^^^^: Staal, Higgins and someone else I would imagine. Should happen soon too.[/quote] I don't think Staal is part of the deal. That was the stalworth before. Higgins still has no team on tsn, expect him to be shipped out again. Higgins, Boylle and Del Zotto

I don't know about you guys, but with the recent 2 drafts, I'd rather trade for some forwards, if we're talking prospects...

Staal, Higgins and Dubinski? Are you guys serious? While I agree that this *may be* Sather making room for Heatley, I don't think we would get all three unless we also took back Redden.

Dawg's Wife wrote:[
I'll defer to you guys, I know nothing of them and Dawg is still holed up doing the FA thing.

With the two Russians, or than deal in specific?

wprager wrote:Staal, Higgins and Dubinski? Are you guys serious? While I agree that this *may be* Sather making room for Heatley, I don't think we would get all three unless we also took back Redden.

Sather will not part with Staal either, so I wouldn't put him there. Higgins and Dubinsky basically fits what Murray expects to get back.

wprager wrote:Staal, Higgins and Dubinski? Are you guys serious? While I agree that this *may be* Sather making room for Heatley, I don't think we would get all three unless we also took back Redden.

Or Rosival.