What a night. First the Bruins blow two two-goal leads in the third period of their game with their archrival Canadiens before losing in a shootout, and then after it appeared a deal was complete to send Calgary’s Jarome Iginla to Boston, an announcement is made that he’s in fact been traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins instead, essentially for a bag of pucks (two college prospects and a first round draft pick).
Word on the street this morning is that Iginla himself chose Pittsburgh as his final destination, even though the Bruins on the surface appeared to have a stronger offer into Calgary (and who can blame him with how the Bruins hav played for the past two weeks). B’s GM Peter Chiarelli reportedly had Matt Bartkowski, prospect Alex Khokhlachev and Boston’s first round draft pick going to Calgary in exchange for Iginla, and reports this morning say that Calgary preferred this offer to what Pittsburgh eventually gave. But at the end of the day, or at least the story that Calgary GM Jay Feaster is sticking with, is that Iginla made the final call and he had to live with the consequences.
