"Yay, I'm getting out of Montreal!"
The Trade:
David Poile was the first one to pull the trigger on a deal on deadline day, swapping his second pick in 2013 and a conditional 5th round pick in 2013 to the Canadiens for F Andrei Kostitsyn.
This reunites Andrei with his brother Sergei after Sergei was dealt from the Canadiens to Nashville in 2010 for Dan Ellis and Dustin Boyd. Sergei has since flourish with Nashville after never really fitting in with Montreal, and they are hoping that Andrei will have the same reaction.
This is the second deal that Montreal and Nashville have had this month, after earlier in the month Montreal shipped Hal Gill and a conditional 5th round pick for Blake Geoffrion, Robert Slaney and a second round pick in 2012.
For Montreal, this trade is just to get something out of a player that would have likely walked in the off-season as an unrestricted free agent anyways. Getting a second round pick and their conditional 5th they shipped to Nashville in the Gill trade back is a fairly decent return on a player that wasn't like the situation in Montreal and was going to leave.
Nashville Trade Rating: B Get a highly skilled player who showed flashes of brilliance in Montreal and will likely find chemistry with his brother.
Montreal trade Rating: C+ Got something for a player that wasn't happy in his situation, but seems a bit low for a player with Kostitsyn's potential.
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