a replacement for Koivu

hawks will probably keep him if we're still in the playoff race, and trading anyone to the team closest to us in the standings would kinda be a slap in the face to our guys so it won't happen

Deal.

This doesn’t help Columbus at all. He might not be as useless as Koivu was but it wouldn’t be by much. Nash at 4C is just fine.

Before everyone jumps on me about the koivu thing. Koivu was great in Minnesota but should have retired at the end of the season, and never should have signed in Columbus. He was slow end behind the play a lot, he was brought in to help with faceoffs and it was the worst faceoff % in his career. He was done and finally saw that.

Eric Staal