Now that I've got the Rick Nash news out of the way (hopefully, no more until the trade DOES happen), here is a little bit of light-hearted fun. It appears that there is this bit of news making the rounds that Dan Ellis, he who was made silly by a Linus Omark spin-o-rama in December 2010, is putting in calls to the Vancouver Canucks. As you know, the Canucks are ready to trade Roberto Luongo (I covered this one a while back, complete with my possible solutions) and since there is a likely opening with that impending trade, Ellis took it upon himself to contact the Canucks about being a goaltender for the 2012-13 season. I am presuming that Ellis knows he will be a backup and not a starter, since Cory Schneider will be starting, and while it's nice that Ellis has expressed his desire to play for the Canucks, there is a reason why he is likely headed to his fourth team in two years (Nashville, Tampa Bay, Anaheim were his previous stops), and it has nothing to do with the Omark-a-rama. When you fail to seize a starting job in goaltender-starved Tampa, that alone should tell you something. In Vancouver, he doesn't have to be the starter and with a better blue line group in front of him, Ellis could resurrect his career IF he plays well. That is a big IF, though.
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