Recent reports around Washington indicate that McPhee is in the market for a 5/6 defenseman:
"McPhee is continuing to explore trade options as well, hoping to package some of his depth players for a serviceable defenseman, which would address a need and negate the chance of losing young players on waivers with no compensation."
Anaheim was one of the first teams that came to mind in terms of being able to move a dman for a forward package.
Would some combination of Peat, Pettinger and picks be enough to land either Vishnevski (ideally), Sauer or Ward?
With Carney going down with an injury just prior to the waiver draft, I had the crazy idea that McPhee agreed not to take Simpson if Murray would send over a cheaper ($$$) dman at a slight premium. I'm reading way too much into it but I'm bored waiting for the season to start.
source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2003Oct4.html
