With goalie Reto Berra departing the Colorado Avalanche organization in a trade for forward Rocco Grimaldi, the general consensus seems to be that this trade is a positive move for the Avs, and perhaps one of the few good trades Sakic has made since taking the helm as GM. That said, let’s take a look at the pros and cons of this one-for-one deal.
Pros
The pros of this deal are pretty clean-cut:
- Cap Space: roughly half a million dollars in cap space was taken off the Avs’ books by this move.