Calgary Flames Acquire Dawes, Seabrook
July 18, 2009 by Jeanne Dupuis
Filed under Calgary Flames, NHL, News, Trades
The Calgary Flames have been busy over the past few days. They have accepted defenceman Keith Seabrook from the Washington Capitals (the Caps will cash in on this at a later date) and I think it makes a lot of sense since he has been playing with the Calgary Hitmen for the past two seasons.
image: TSN
In another move to add depth to the lineup, the Flames have claimed Nigel Dawes off waivers who had filed for salary arbitration with the Phoenix Coyotes. The restricted free agent will have his case heard next Wednesday unless Calgary signs him by then. This is another unsurprising acquisition since he did play under the Flames’ new coach, Brent Sutter, at the World Juniors. He split last season between the New York Rangers and the Coyotes and posted 10 goals and 11 assists in 64 combined games.
I’m in Calgary and I love that they are adding some good defencemen (who have relatively cheap salaries) because we really have been lacking in that area. When someone gets injured (Robyn Regehr) or just has a crappy ass season (Dion Phaneuf) then the Flames have no defence so it’s great that they are beefing up the lineup.
My only question is about salary. I feel like they have acquired a lot of folks. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t always do the math correctly when it comes to the cap but I’m starting to worry that a big trade is coming. I guess only time will tell…
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