Austin Makes Some More Moves

Is Andres Godoe the new Matt Sherris? Nah...
Well let's just say I'm happy I signed with that NTC. There have been three trades tonight, two of which involve Godoe's Austin Marauders.

The first one involves the New England Brewers. Austin shipped out right winger Trevor Cardinal to the Brewers for Defenseman Ryan Claudill. I just can't see the Brewers logic with this one. Cardinal was about to become a UFA for Christ's sakes! So basically, they traded away a BHL caliber defenseman, for someone who was already going to sign with them anyway. Could this be a sort of "charity" deal? That's the only reason that comes to mind.

In a press release today, NE GM Matt Kinney had this to explain his strange tactics: "As for why we traded for a UFA, we needed to ensure that Trevor came here and signed with us and because of how things worked out, this is what needed to get done. There are also some undisclosed parts of the deal that were agreed to that will help us out in the future making this a winning situation for our team." I guess we'll just to sit and wait to see whether or not Kinney made a good move.

Austin's other deal involves Godoe's former team, the Vancouver Falcons. Godoe sent Austin's second round pick to the Falcs in exchange for centerman James Morgan and D-Man Azdine Treille. This just seems like another steal for Austin, at least in the short term. The second rounder would have probably been a player of the same caliber of Morgan or Treille, so it was traded away for twice its present worth. Although, the potential second round pick could have much more upside than Treille or Morgan. For now though, it looks like Austin won this deal.

And in a much more minor trade, the Dakota Warbirds swapped draft picks with the aforementioned Vancouver Falcons. Dakota sent both the 16th and the 18th overall picks to Vancouver for the 9th overall pick. Seems like a pretty straight up deal. 2 second rounders for a first, both teams come out winners here.