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Canes Acquire Jussi Jokinen

The Carolina Hurricanes attempted to address one of their needs, scoring depth, when they traded with Tampa Bay for Jussi Jokinen today.  The Canes gave up Wade Brookbank, Josef Melichar, and a fourth round draft pick for the Finnish forward.

Jokinen is expected to play tonight in Phoenix.

The Canes will take on a bit more salary with the deal as Brookbank and Melichar earned 1.475 million combined, while Jokinen has a salary of 1.875 million.  Melichar was sent to Albany and Brookbank hadn't played in weeks, so the move does not adversely affect the current Hurricanes lineup.

At one time, Jokinen was known as being one of the top shootout performers in the league.  He was originally drafted by Dallas, but was sent to Tampa Bay last year in the Brad Richards deal.  He has scored 53 goals and has 161 points in 281 career NHL games.

Discounting the extra salary, the move is a good one for the Canes in that they gave up two players whom the organization had given up on.  But it does leave the team without a bonafide "enforcer".  Melichar and Brookbank will be unrestricted free agents at the end of the year while Jokinen is restricted.   Jussi could have been picked up on the waiver wire a bit earlier, but this way the Canes dump two dead contracts of their own.

It's interesting that the team now has three players from Finland, Ruutu, Pitkanen, and now Jokinen.

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Applause…………nice move. I have always liked this player. He will play some important minutes….. JR nice move Sir.

by KenRab on Feb 7, 2009 3:09 PM EST reply actions  

Awesome!!! Go Team Finland!
Next time we take on the Canucks (team sweden) let’s hope we show ’em…
:)

by Andrea's evil twin on Feb 7, 2009 3:27 PM EST reply actions  

Just when I think I'm out....


JR pulls off another one. I gotta say on paper this looks like a solid move. Brookbank and Melichar were more or less just taking up space of late. So I have a thumbs up feeling on the deal.
Lately I couldn’t help but to reflect on the 2006 Season and the $$ that JR invested and got things locked up (Recchi-Weight) and the rest as they say-history Lord Stanley. Since that time the Hurricanes player dealings have seemed in more of a prevent/damage control status. In the sense that, sure JR has locked up Staal and kept our household names-sorry Colesy- in Raleigh but he hasn’t really thrown the dice with P Karmanos’ moolah in some time. I really don’t want to run the list of whos who in the Canes trading-signing over the past two seasons but review that list yourself to see if this statement is consistent. All those players that have come and gone since the Cup win still don’t add up to a Mark Recchi or Doug Weight type deal. I just haven’t had the impression of many risks being taken over the last 2 seasons with the Canes. Most of what JR has been busy with has been more low risk moves. Can’t really blame him after no playoffs in two seasons money gets to be kind of an issue.
Save this move, it’s still the “Can I get a deal” type move while spending another 400K against the cap and sacrifice 2 enforcer types along with the draft pick….But IMO this is a nice trade, can’t wait to see if MO throws out a team Finland line!!
Welcome to the Hurricanes Jussi!! Sorry about that #10 on your sweater-that number’s spoken for in Raleigh. Now and forever.

by 54fighting on Feb 7, 2009 4:26 PM EST reply actions  

Jokinen

Is the product of a same junior system as Pitkänen, and played in the same team in FEL, so they also should be very good friends.

by MiesMan on Feb 7, 2009 4:54 PM EST reply actions  

A solid move … I like it!

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by Cory Lavalette on Feb 7, 2009 8:38 PM EST reply actions  

Oh yea

I love this one. He’s played rather well, but I think he was bummed/bitter about the trade from Dallas. Ruutu played outta his mind against the ‘Yotes, HINT, HINT, there JR. I think something that hasn’t been said yet is Rod’s gone and the whole team is playing better, just like last year. I ain’t saying anything other than that. I think it’s rather interesting. I love Rod, but I think his sunis/has set. I like the fillers we are getting. If we can get some better face off work from the rest of the crew, I think Rod’s an expensive anchor for this team. Now don’t get your panty’s in a bunch, I love Brindy as a person and a player. I just think the writing is on the wall. Think Ron Francis or Stevey Y. It always sucks when a great player needs to get put out to pasture. I think it’s time. Beat the Sharks and smoked the Yotes, I liked both games alot.

Hey MiesMan howd you get the cool horizontal colon above the a in Pitkanen?

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by Paladin6 on Feb 10, 2009 5:45 PM EST reply actions  

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