Ottawa's Joe Corvo and Cory Conacher, the Florida Panthers' Scott Gomez and Scot Clemmensen, Maple Leafs left winger Trevor Smith, Wild center Jake Dowell, Oilers winger Corey Potter and Flames defenseman Derek Smith were placed on waivers.
Leafs enforcer Frazer McLaren, Predators goalie Devan Dubnyk, Penguins forward Chuck Kobasew and Oilers defenceman Philip Larsen all went unclaimed after being waived Monday.
Then the fun started today...
Dustin Penner was sent from Anaheim to Washington for a pick and the Ducks picked up Stephane Robidas from Dallas. They also sent goalie Victor Fasth to Edmonton for two picks...
CSN Washington's Jill Sorenson caught up with Penner's high school teammate, Eric Fehr...
The Caps were right up against the cap ceiling- so, as a move to alleviate some of that, they sent Martin Erat and John Mitchell to Phoenix for Rusty Klesla, Chris Brown and a pick...
Ilya Bryzgalov went from Edmonton to Minnesota to be one of the Wild's goaltenders- especially good timing with the announcement that Nick Backstrom is out for the year with an injury...
The Islanders sent Andrew McDonald to Philadelphia for two picks and a player...
But the big move of the day sends Roberto Luongo back to Florida along with Steven Anthony for two players...
Bobby Lu is looking forward to heading back to a place where crowds are non-existent...
Sportsnet adds instant analysis...
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The HQ has no idea what is up with Roberto Luongo, but it seems like he's gone all Schleprock on us...
The dark cloud seems to follow- regardless of how much effort he seems to make to the contrary...
Your new round of evidence is below...
Lars Eller, technically, gets credit for a short-handed, game-winning goal...
But, then, we have standard denial...
“I didn’t see it. I didn’t see it,” Luongo said postgame. “They didn’t show it on the Jumbotron, I didn’t see it. You guys tell me what happened.”
The follow-up question was if he’d ever given up a more bizarre game winner, and Luongo said: “I didn’t give that up, so I can’t tell you.”
And it's weird responses like that that give Canucks fans fits with their starting goaltender... and make them wonder why he's still there...
Martin Erat requested a trade out of Nashville and got it...
Jason Pominville was moved out of Buffalo to Minnesota to improve them...
Ben Bishop was moved from Ottawa to Tampa...
Marian Gaborik waived his no-trade to go from the Rangers to Columbus...
And those were the highlights of the day as it picked up steam after lunchtime... but the biggest event was the one that didn't happen. There was a deal in place for bringing in Miikka Kiprusoff to the T-Dot, but he didn't want to leave Calgary. He'll probably retire after this year with one year left on his deal.
There was talk of the Vancouver Canucks taking leave of one of their goaltenders- Roberto Luongo- once and for all. But it never went down... and Luongo, thank those of us who had to sit through the day, for being honest about what didn't happen.
Here's the highlight soundbite from his post-deadline talk...
Brian Burke has never been one to want to bring Roberto Luongo into Toronto from Vancouver. Dave Nonis, from his time out west, would make such a deal...
While waiting for that to happen, it appears that Burke got booted upstairs for a Special Consultancy for the remainder of his contract and Nonis is now the new guy in charge of Randy Carlyle's team for 2013's season...
Evidence below...or not... "Brian will not have direct authority over hockey operations, however this new role will allow our board and I to continue to benefit from his hockey expertise," MLSE president Tom Anselmi said in a statement. "We want to thank Brian for accepting his new role and staying on with our organization."
Now, the HQ will be very interested in seeing what assets go from one coast to the other on how the Leafs-Canucks make this happen...
