Yesterday, the Siberia Icecats made a significant upgrade to their team, bringing in Norris trophy and Kehler Cup winner, Brent Burns. Brent did not come cheaply, but this deal seems to give the Icecats the true #1 dman that they have been searching for the past 2 seasons. In order to get Burns, Siberia had to give up solid yet undersized Jared Spurgeon, a great defensive prospect Phillipe Myers and their 1st round pick in 2018.
We caught up with GM Saouaf about the trade. "Well, we are playing in a tough, tough conference. It's going to be a tough battle to get through our conference and I wanted to give our team the best fighting chance I could. While losing the talent we gave up is tough, we feel we have built up enough organizational depth to allow such a trade to be made, while not weakening us significantly. I look forward to seeing how this team looks as they start to gel together. The first quarter of the season saw us with ups and downs, with so many new faces, but we believe that as the year progresses, the Icecats will gel into a candidate for the Kehler Cup!".
It certainly does seem like GM Saouaf is going all in this season, as his trades seem to attest to. The question that is on everyone's mind is will captain McDavid be able to lead this team to a deep cup run? Only time will tell. The present and the future certainly look bright for the Icecats. Stay tuned sports fans!
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