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Lou Lamoriello speaks to media about Michael Grabner trade

General question on the trade:
First of all, we acquired an experienced player who has one-year remaining on his contract who brings a tremendous amount of speed to the lineup. Certainly you’ve seen him enough at the Island. It also allows us, with the number of contracts that went back, to do other things at the right time.

What kind of things?
You never know. We were pretty tight on contracts. We don’t know what might come available. It gives you the opportunity to do just the reverse, should that come about, of what we did today, depending on the availability.