NHLHS Atlanta Thrashers Correspondent Laura Astorian discusses the trade between the Thrashers and New York Rangers that sent Todd White packing.
The Thrashers pulled of something yesterday that most people thought impossible - they traded Todd White.
A buyout was not an option, because White was on the IR at the end of the season with a separated shoulder (he would undergo surgery in the off-season). If a player is injured, his contract cannot be bought out without his consent. White was not going to fit into the new Rick Dudley model of the Thrashers, and so something had to be done with him, but what? Send him to the AHL and risk losing him for free – and pay him more than $2.5 million to play there if he did clear waivers? That clearly wasn’t an option, so with that and a buyout off the table, people assumed he would just be the team’s 13th forward. The Thrashers couldn’t find a place for him, and Thrashers fans didn’t want him – who els...
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