The Red Sox are in spring training and there's plenty of overreaction to things Bobby V, Carl Crawford and Josh Beckett are saying. This Blog is looking at the NHL trade deadline coming up and thinks this is a trade that needs to and could happen. Washington needs to stop the puck, they are currently 20th in the NHL allowing 2.80 Goals per game and sit 1 point out of the playoffs with another year of Alex Ovechkin about to be wasted. Meanwhile the Bruins are without Rich Peverley and Nathan Horton and in need of a top six forward. Watch while this Blog works this trade magic.
The Bruins trade Tim Thomas and his $1.243 M cap hit for the rest of this year and $5 M next year along with Dan Paille and his expiring $.267 M cap hit to Washington. In return the Bs get Alexander Semin and his expiring $1.666 M cap hit and M Neuvirth and his .286 M cap hit for the rest of this year and $1.150 M next year. Washington gets Thomas and his 8th ranked 2.21 Goals Against Average, pushing Thomas Vokun and his 21st ranked 2.45 GAA to backup, and Dan Paille to replace a forward for Washington as they would be left with only 11 by trading Semin. Washington gets the reigning Vezina and Conn Smythe winner. Boston gets an exciting younger offensive force in Alexander Semin who has been playing with an expiring $6.7 M cap hit salary and while his production has been down the last year and a half he did score 34 and 40 goals between '08/'09 and '09/'10, is only 27 years old and could be energized getting out from under the shadow of Ovechkin and placed in the atmosphere of Boston, with the aura of a Stanley Cup and structure of a tenured Claude Julien as coach. Semin could be placed on the Krejci/Lucic line and the Bruins would also get an experienced backup goaltender in Neuvirth. It would mean going with Rask as the #1 but this Blog thinks he's ready to take the reigns and is too young and good to not invest in him and get rid of Thomas.
Washington is right up against the cap, and the Bruins aren't too far away and would have a hard time fitting Semin's salary demands into the budget next year, but this is a go for it all trade for 2 teams that are in win now mode and gives Tim Thomas a bigger chip on his shoulder to prove people wrong and gets his crazy politics right in the middle of DC to boot. Make it happen Mr. Chiarelli!!!
Until next time,
The SAHD
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