Brownish Mathias
The Press
EXCLUSIVE - Nothing enables us for the moment to confirm that a transaction between the Canadian and Thrashers of Atlanta is concluded, but the Press learned, yesterday, that one had ordered equipment with the colors of the formation montréalaise for the attacker high-speed motorboat 29 year old, Marian Hossa.
Such an order does not want to necessarily say that the business is in the bag. Two years ago, one had manufactured equipment for Nikolai Khabibulin and Adrian Aucoin, but this one had broken ankle the day before of the advertisement of the transaction and all had fallen through (it seems that Theodore, Ribeiro and Dagenais would have passed to Blackhawks in the exchange).
It also happens that a DG can change opinion following a mirobolante offer received at the last minute. Except that an order of equipment is not placed unless the negociations with opposing team are not serious. A company can spend at least a day to manufacture a pair of breeches or gloves to measure for athlete. The Tricolour one undoubtedly wanted to make sure that all is ready in time if the transaction is finalized soon.
The names of Michael Ryder and Streit Mark circulated yesterday (and perhaps a choice with the fishing out or a hope), but this information could not be confirmed in a sure way.
The last day of meeting of the general managers, yesterday, to Naples, in Florida, gave rise to certain rumours. At the end of the afternoon, CBC announced on its Internet site that Alex Tanguay passed to Tricolour in return of Michael Ryder and a choice to the fishing out, except which one quickly withdrew the cuff.
Several indices showed recently that Bob Gainey and its counterpart Don Waddell tried to prepare a large blow. Gainey did not hide this week that it tried to add a player of foreground to his formation.
Waddell attended on the spot two meetings of the Canadian these two last weeks, going even until missing a drive by its team to attend the match of CH in Florida eight days ago. At the time of its passage in the Bell Center the previous week, it blagué with fellow-members, saying to them that it moved to see a player with work, but that this one was not even in uniform (Michael Ryder).
The DG of Thrashers always indicated that he wanted to obtain players being able to help it in the short run in return of Hossa since its club is always in the race for a place in series. It never hid its interest for an offensive defender.
Marian Hossa, Streit Mark and Michael Ryder have an identical contractual statute, i.e. they will have right to complete autonomy at the end of the season. It is not impossible however that a club gives the permission to the team with whom it compromises to discuss contract with the player implied in the exchange. The analyst Murray Wilson, of CJAD, had declared besides in waves it has been a few weeks that Gainey had obtained the permission to discuss prolongation of contract with Hossa.
Marian Hossa, which touches 7 million this season, knows one season lower than its usual standards with 53 points in 58 matches, but it offered an output of 100 and 92 points at the time the two previous seasons. It remains one of the wingers most endowed with the national League.
Let us hope for the Canadian that the tendency is maintained and that this formidable player can endorse the new equipment which one has just manufactured to him...
From La Presse
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