It's the trade deadline, everybody! We are officially underway!
The Calgary Flames and the Vancouver Canucks: trade partners, two trade deadlines in a row. Who saw that coming?
It was only just a bit under a year ago when the Flames traded Sven Baertschi for a 2015 second round pick, which they used to select Rasmus Andersson. Pretty good deal, right? A prospect with potential who wasn't going to stay in town, and they got another prospect with pretty good potential out of it.
This one might be even better, though.
The Flames have traded another 2011 pick, Markus Granlund, to the Vancouver Canucks for the 24th overall pick of the 2013 NHL draft: Hunter Shinkaruk.