Last night in Boston, the Habs took on the Bruins. Just over a minute in, the Bruins dump in went off the glass and back in front of the goal and Price was behind the net which lead to an easy empty net goal by Caron. That would make it 1-0 and that would be the score going into the second. The score was still 1-0 after 2 periods. But to start the third, Cammalleri wasn't on the Habs bench. The original consensus was that he was injured. We would find out different later on. 5 minutes into the third, Horton centred the puck to Lucic and he scored to make it 2-0. Then with 7 minutes to go, the Habs were on a powerplay and Webers shot beat Thomas to cut the lead to 1. But that's as close as the Habs would get as they lose this game 2-1 and will remain in 12th in the Eastern Conference.After the game it was officially announced that Mike Cammalleri was traded to the Flames for Rene Bourque, Holland and a draft pick. “The Montreal Canadiens traded Michael Cammalleri today to the Calgary Flames in addition to the rights to Mr. Karri Ramo who’s a goaltender that plays in Europe and a fifth round pick in 2012,” explained Gauthier.. “In exchange for these people and assets, we obtained left winger René Bourque from the Calgary Flames in addition to a good, young prospect from the Tri-Cities named Patrick Holland, a centerman, and a second round pick in 2013.It was tough timing because you pull a guy off after two periods in a very tight game.But it’s not the first time it happens and it was the right thing to do for all parties.”
“This is a trade, amongst other discussions, has been going on for a while. It’s very tough to make deals right now because of the cap and the league being so close,” Continued Gauthier. “But we’ve been trying for these past weeks to get bigger up front. We have a lot of young players that have joined the team in the last year or so that aren’t very big.We felt that if we wanted to improve the club we have to be bigger up front. We need to score harder goals. We need to score goals from the tough areas with the second chances, third chances and screen shots,” continued Gauthier. “That’s why Mr. Bourque was very attractive to us, because he scores a great majority of his goals from the hard areas.”
All I can say about this mistake of this trade is that if this GM stays and doesn't get fired soon, the Habs historical organization will turn into a joke of an organization. Gauthier is like a lost sheep in this situation, in a sense that he doesn't know what to do with this team so the first trade that comes his way he takes it. If Gauthier really wanted to trade Cammalleri that much, he could have shopped him around and gotten more for him. But instead he gets a big forward that is not a game breaking player, who is nothing more than a 3rd or 4th line player. So another big mistake from the Habs organization.
Written By Andrew Di Pardo
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