It’s hard to beat the pedigree of a Memorial Cup-winning goaltender, but Dustin Tokarski does hands-down, giving the Montreal Canadiens a significant edge in a trade, albeit a relatively minor one, made Thursday.
In a swap of two goaltenders, each of whom has won Canada’s national junior hockey championship, the Habs acquired Tokarski from the Tampa Bay Lightning in exchange for Cedrick Desjardins. Tokarski, you see, has also won gold at the World Junior Ice Hockey Championships.
Desjardins, meanwhile, had the bad luck of sharing World Junior eligibility with Pittsburgh Penguin Marc-Andre Fleury, a Stanley Cup-winning goalie who backstopped two-straight Canadian World Junior teams (2003, 2004).
And once Fleury’s eligibility had run out, Desjardins wasn’t even invited to the 2005 tourney’s camp, which yielded that infamous gold-winning, all-star team that featured Sidney Crosby and Ryan Getzlaf up front, Shea Weber and Dion Phaneuf on the back-end, and the venerable goaltending duo of Jeff “not even Tanner” Glass and Rejean “played in the Central Hockey League last season” Beauchemin ...
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Why the Montreal Canadiens Won the Dustin Tokarski-Cedrick Desjardins Trade
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