The Obligatory Hockey Post

"Uh-Oh"

So it’s been a while since we have made a hockey post, and we don’t want to lose our valuable hockey contacts, so here is an article on the ice for all you puck heads. By the way, using the word obligatory is no way offensive. In fact, take it as a compliment because that means we realize that hockey is so popular that we’re willing to make posts about it even when we probably know nothing about the sport. All I know is that the Mighty Duck movie series was based on this sport, and that was an awesome movie. Oh yeah, and the fights are cool too.

Anyway, the NHL trade deadline ends today. Unfortunately, a lot of the teams in California had their trade thunder stolen away by the big exchanges that went on in the NBA. How can hockey players compete with Gasol and Shaq, really? That doesn’t mean that shit didn’t go down though. To review, here is what went down since the beginning of the 2008 year:

Sharks trade “future consideration” for Jody Shelley:

Sharks trade 2009 sixth round draft pick for J.D. Forrest:

Ducks trade Matt Keith for Darryl Bootland:

Ducks trade Shane Hnidy and a 2008 sixth round pick for Brandon Bochenski:



Um, cool. I don’t really know what all this means, but it sounds good, right? And what the hell does future consideration mean? Is that like an IOU, but for hockey? God we need an NHL writer in our blog, because me covering hockey stuff is like letting Ryan Seacrest host a Super Bowl pre-show. Damnit, that really happened.

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