We are very pleased to welcome Marc-Eduard to our organization. He brings a lot of stability to our backend, and provides us with a playoff pedigree that we lacked on the back-end. We have been very active in trying to acquire a defenseman on a top team and we felt that Marc-Eduard was the right fit for our organization moving forward. We did lose a lot of young talent in the deal, notably Michael Del Zotto, who had struggled to adapt to the system we have in place in Florida, he is a very skilled young defenseman and we hope he can turn in around in Calgary. We also gained two very good young players in Stephane Da Costa and Mike Matheson. Stephane is a very skilled player who we feel has the ability to play at the NHL level and be productive. He will add nicely to our Senators contingent. Mike is a very special young defenseman. We are very high on Mike's ability, he is a tremendous all-around defenseman and we eagerly await him turning pro. We wish the best of luck to Chris, Michael and Michael in Calgary.
Updated lineup when our 2nd trade is announced.