NHL Trade Deadline Comes and Goes

With the trade deadline completed on March 4, 2009, the Toronto Maple Leafs made some moves for the future. Brian Burke, along with his team in the war room was busy all day wheeling and dealing for prospects and draft picks. In the end, as predicted by Duke’s Dog Pound in the blog on March 2, 2009, the two Maple Leafs traded were Nik Antropov and Dominic Moore.

Nik Antropov was sent packing to Broadway with the New York Rangers for a second round draft pick and a conditional draft pick.

Dominic Moore was shipped off to the Buffalo Sabres for a second round draft pick.

The Maple Leafs acquired Erik Reitz from the New York rangers via the waiver wire for some further depth on the Marlies and the Maple Leafs.

As predicted by Duke’s Dog Pound on March 4, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. the re-entry waiver pickup of Martin Gerber was the prelude to the announcement of Vesa Toskala being out for the remainder of the season to have surgery on his hip and groin. Martin Gerber will replace Vesa Toskala, while he works to get rid of the injuries this season. Look for Justin Pogge to get some starts with the Maple Leafs to audition for next year.

The Maple Leafs acquired Erik Reitz from the New York rangers via the waiver wire.

Brian Burke was not finished, as the final deal of the day was completed with the Tampa Bay Lightning. This move was purely a salary dump for draft pick trade where Toronto sent Richard Petiot from the Marlies to Tampa Bay in exchange for Olaf Kolzig, Jamie Heward, Andy Rogers and the Lightning’s fourth round draft pick in 2009.

The Maple Leafs pick up $500,000 worth of salary from the injured Kolzig and Heward, in exchange for Rogers and the fourth round draft pick. Andy Rogers was a former first round (30th overall selection) in 2004 and will be a work in progress for the Marlies and Maple Leafs.

In all, Brian Burke accomplished his task of starting to mold