Keith Aulie for Carter Ashton

[Alex]

Keith Aulie a Bolt. Don't know the return yet.

Edit: Carter Ashton

Another reason Malone won't go anywhere now, IMO.

Have fun with this one, guys.

[BurnTHalO]

Keith Aulie is now a Bolt, and I'm hearing we sent Carter Ashton for him.

[Goboltz56]

No way......

[timothy]

Now... who thinks Malone gets traded??

[hfgreg]

Ashton for Aulie, in other news Malone is here to stay.

[astro]

and everyone at BP cries

[BurnTHalO]

Originally Posted by timothy

Now... who thinks Malone gets traded??

Originally Posted by hfgreg

Ashton for Aulie, in other news Malone is here to stay.

I'm not sure of that. I'm not sure Yzerman/Boucher want any forward with an ounce of toughness.

[Acehawk74]

I Hate to lose Ashton, but we traded from a position of strength to address a position of weakness. I think this works out for both teams.
We have Connolly, Killorn, Johnson, Conacher, Namestnikov, Panik, all players who could potentially see the NHL within a few years.
Defensively...we have Gudas, Barberio, and now Aulie.

I'm happy overall. Sad to lose Carter, but happy to acquire a good young shutdown d-man. 6'6, tough.

[BurnTHalO]

But, I honestly don't know about Aulie. I know how high everyone was on Ashton. I read Aulie is a big physical dman, but is he going to be allowed to keep that in Tampa? We just took out a major part of Norfolk, is Aulie going there? Is he ready to step into Tampa right now? Right now, I am not happy, but I am reserving complete judgement on this one until someone can convince me that he is worth Ashton.

[Alex]

Anyone have a Forecaster on Aulie?

I really hate to see Ashton go, too, but we have depth at F as mentioned by Acehawk. I'm withholding my full judgement until I know a little more about Aulie, though. I like the size.