New York Rangers and Calgary Flames Trade Talks on Hold!

As Rangers Forward Ales Kotalik stressed his unhappiness with his club, the Rangers told him to stay home on their road trip and Glen Sather would put him on the trading block.

Calgary who has been struggling of late 1-6-3 in their last 10, but are still in the playoff hunt owning the eight seed made a block buster deal yesterday (1/31/10). Making a seven player deal with the Toronto Maple Leafs sending them their hard hitting defenseman Dion Phaneuf along with Keith Aulie and forward Fredrik Sjostrom while Flames received Nikla Hagman, Matt Stajan, Jamal Mayer and defenseman Ian White.

Both teams seemed they weren't done just yet as the Leafs made another deal with the Ducks and a trade rumor between the Rangers and Flames surfaced.

New York was going to send Ales Kotalik and defenseman Matt Gilroy for Olli Jokinen and Brandon Prust. But with the pickup of Ian White in the Toronto deal the Flames no longer had interest in Gilroy so the Rangers put Christopher Higgins in the package.

The deal could benefit both teams as all players involved in the deal have under achieved this season and a new atmosphere could turn things around for these players which all have the ability to be impact players.

But as of now all players are still with their teams as GM's scratch their heads it is unknown if this deal is still alive or still dead. One thing that is certain is Ales Kotalik of the New York Rangers wants to play else where.

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