EHM The Blue Line

Last I heard it was:

To Anaheim:
Chris Pronger

To Edmonton:
Ladislav Smid
Joffrey Lupul
2007 1st Round Pick
Conditional draft pick

That's a gutsy deal!! However given Anaheim's depth and the amount of young talent they have I think this was a good deal for them still. They have so much forward talent; and who in their right mind could complain about having Pronger/Neidermayer leading your defensive corps?

It is a lot to give up but if you get the 2006 Playoff Edition Pronger not the early 2006 season Pronger it's worth it and it stamps Anaheim as a serious contenders while I would only have put them somwhere's around 'solid playoff potential' before this deal.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=170401&hubname=nhl

But then I really like Lupul... and Smid has been talked of as being a Top 10 prospect at D and is 6'3" at only 20 so it is chopping away a lot of potential for a 'finished product'.

Pronger and Niedermayer in the same team? Poor forwards... It'll be hard to score against them,as Bryzgalov and Giguere seem to still be Ducks goalies next year...

Is Pronger's a present to celebrate the team's new logo and new name? If so,it's a really nice present!

Their new logo is a bit ugly i think... Not really the logo by himself,but the colours are lifeless

However,it looks more serious than the precedent one,even if he was funny...

I personally think they dropped the ball on the re-logo front... "Let's make the D in ducks out of a duck's foot! That'll make everyone take us seriously!!" They'd have done better hooking up with kids at the local schools and having a design contest to pick a new logo At least they finally have a name compliant with the rest of the league; Team Location followed by Team Name. So every media outlet covering the team no longer needs to deal with the team's legal trademarked name being The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim instead of Anaheim Ducks. It was that part that always made me more than having the cartoon logo and the Disney Movie Marketing tie-in.

A good deal there getting Pronger in. The defence at Anaheim is looking pretty strong even after that addition.
I haven't gained a full understanding for these conditional draft picks. what is these conditons? Is it if ducks get into the play offs oilers get their first round pick.

The Ducks have a fair bunch of rookies coming through and I think it makes sense to get good experience and presence which Pronger can give. Lupul is a descent player but expendible for a deal like this and there is a good forward presence there and just needs a bit more experience added to get the balance.

The cond. pick belongs to the Oil if the Ducks make it to the finals.

Is there a list of possible conditions for those picks,or is the teams are totally free to negotiate the conditions? (it's not the subject of the topic,but there's no way to make a new topic just for this i think )

Now, take this with an absolute grain of salt, cause it's probably BS. I heard from a guy who's good friends with one of the owners of the Flames organization (get that one?) that the reason Pronger wanted out of Edmonton is because he got a local weather girl pregnent, and his wife found out. To get back at him, she supposedly slept with another member of the Oilers organization (I was told Hemsky). This is turning into a right old soap opera.


But like I said, I wouldn't be surprised if that whole story was BS, so don't go around yelling about its truthiness.

Interesting rumor...

But,as my english is not perfect,i have to ask you: what means "BS"? I think it's an abreviation,but i don't know for what it is...

Err.... it means Kasparaitis... as in probably fake.

Ah the old knocked up the local weathergirl story eh? Maybe you were closer than you thought when listing possible reasons! That one does have a certain whiff of to it though in a "my brother sister's friends knows this guy who says that his friend...." kind of way. Entertaining nonetheless.