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WHEAT KINGS ANNOUNCE HUL'VA DEAL

The Wheat Kings announced Friday that they had completed a three-way deal with the Saints and Misconduct. The deal is the second one in less than a week in which the Kings have added a premiere young talent. The nine player, three team deal saw long time Wheaties Niklas Hagman and Dan Sprang leave along with prospect Valterri Filpulla, in return the Kings acquired Jakup Hulva and one-time Wheatie Steve McCarthy.

"Anytime you deal the kind of talent we did it hurts," GM Tyler Young commented, "but the key is to get back talent in return where you need it. We gave away Danny, who was a an outstanding player and only beginning what will be an excellent career, and Nicklas, who has been a consistent worker for us for two seasons; but we felt with the skill and youth of our current defense Danny was expendable in the right deal as long as we could get back a decent defenceman to fill his spot, and Nik had to go to make the deal possible."

With McCarthy, who is young and solid defensively, the Wheat Kings believe they have added another solid top four d-man and some one who can adequately fill in Sprang's sport. However, the real jem of the deal is Hulva. He as been long coveted by the Kings - he is rumoured to have been their desired player back in the TFHL13 draft. Like Dmitri Kazionov, picked-up last week, Hulva has tremendous goal scoring ability; however, he is also a more rounded player with excellent on-ice vision and play-making skill.

"The acquisition of Hulva is an unbelievable joy," Mr. Young stated. "With Hulva, Kazionov, Hartnell, and Jones, I think we are on par with some of the best as far as having a young, extremely talented core in place for the next ten years. These last couple deals have solidified this team for I don't know how many seasons - it's almost sad when I think about it, I'm soon going to lose opportunities to make deals with a group like this in place."