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CALGARY HURRICANES TRIGGER BLOCKBUSTER DEAL WITH DIVISION RIVALS BOBCATS

Calgary Hurricanes GM Derek Major announced today that the Hurricanes have acquired Anson Carter, Marek Malik and Ryan Kesler in exchange for Andy Delmore, Tobias Stephan and Branislav Fabry. With the long term injury to Shane Endicott the Hurricanes needed a replacement right away.

"I don't see this as a short term improvement. We have both Marek and Anson who are 29 and 30 each, while we have a great youngster in Ryan Kesler who will be able to lead this team along with Alex Svitov in the future. We lost some depth on the goaltending position, Tobias was coming along nicely, but we'll need to see about building that piece of the puzzle in the off season, for now goaltending is strong with Roman and Frederic at the helms."

The key player of this deal is Anson Carter who is expected to slot in with a line of Bill Guerin and Mike York. A bit of a shock for Carter is he is coming from a lower conference team to one of the powerhouses of the TFHL. "Its pretty weird, I mean I was the 3rd highest scoring player on my team and now well I think I am the 7th highest scoring player on the team. Calgary is a great team, just look at their great leaders like Markus Naslund, Chris Pronger and Billy Guerin. I like this team a lot." Said Carter who was reached via phone after the announcement of the deal.

Robert Schnabel was called up from the Hurricanes farm team, he is a defensive minded player who is expected to log a lot of time alongside Chris Pronger.

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