James Neal traded to Nashville

[CarltonTheBear]

http://penguins.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=724163&navid=DL|PIT|home

The Pittsburgh Penguins have acquired forwards Patric Hornqvist and Nick Spaling from the Nashville Predators in exchange for James Neal, it was announced by executive vice president and general manager Jim Rutherford.

Happened during the draft. With Neal gone Malkin is going to need a new winger. Possibly a friendly Russian?

 

[Kin]

I like this trade quite a bit for the Penguins. Neal's pre-Malkin numbers are basically right around Hornqvist's numbers and they get a decent young bottom 6 player on top of that.

 

[Madferret]

This trade has  "just get rid of him" written all over it.