Trade Deadline Recap "from 24 hours before the deadline"

With the first pick of the 2013 draft the Calgary Flames select

        from the Malmo Redhawks Andre Burakowsky.

Trade deadline is a wonderful time of year for hockey fans. A time when we huddle around our TV’s and twitter feeds to find out that in fact nothing interesting has actually happened. This year will be different though. This year we have a high profile player who is rumored to be on his way out for a while now and there is no way he won’t get traded, right? The only downside to all this exciting deadline day action is that you have to skip work and forget about the outside world for entire day. Well, as always I’m here to help you skip all the boring awkward downtime of trade deadline day coverage and just give you all the highlights now.


-Florida Panthers GM Dave Tallon has set up an auto-call reminding other GMs that they still have solid veteran players available such as Jerred Smithson and Marcel Goc.

-In a somewhat less surprising turn of events than it should be, Jay Feaster announces that he has traded Miikka Kiprusoff to every team in the league for a 1st round draft pick and a college prospect whose last name ends in “owski”.

-A confused looking Peter Chiarelli calls for a press conference at 2 in the morning to announce that Zdeno Chara has been traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for an 8th round draft pick and the rights to Taro Tsujimoto.

-In a last ditch effort to keep their Stanley Cup hopes alive, the Philadelphia Flyers have traded their entire roster to the Los Angeles Kings.

-The Buffalo Sabres kick off their fire sale event by offering free signing bonuses to whoever will take some contracts off their hands. Although it should be pointed out that Terrence Pegula hands out signing bonuses to everyone he meets.

-In a stunning turn of events, Roberto Luongo has been traded to.... Find out next time on our 2014 Trade Deadline Recap.