Canes trade Boucher to Flyers for Pither...

[KillerKat]

http://hurricanes.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=650126

[Panther_mountain]

I don't know anything about this guy, not real wild about giving up Alt. I dont like trading promising high draft picks, he was a second rounder.

We have now traded 2 of our top 5 defenseman prospects this offseason. Obviously the other one was Dumoulin in the J Staal trade. One thing to note is Dumoulin was our second rated defenseman prospect while he is the penguins sixth rated defenseman prospect. We need depth.

[KillerKat]

Yea our team looks really weak. There has to be something in the works. Need at least 2 really good forwards.

[cbarrier90]

My guess is they like the performance of either Dan Ellis or Justin Peters in Charlotte, thus rendering Boucher expendable.

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Ellis he was signed

[CarolinaPanthers8789]

Made this trade because we are going to be calling up a lot of the Checkers players to the Canes roster this year and the Checkers are going to need more players. I don't understand why we had to add Alt in there though.

It sucks losing Alt and Dumoulin in one offseason, I guess they are still high on Murphy (regardless of his poor WJC performance).

Also, Elllis was signed by the Canes today so he will be backing up Wardo this year.