Flyers Trade Ellison to Nashville

[Jlg-28]

Source: TSN.ca

Nashville Predators general manager David Poile announced today that the club has acquired forward Matt Ellison from the Philadelphia Flyers for future considerations.

Ellison, 23, ranked second in scoring on the American Hockey League's Philadelphia Phantoms in 2006-07 with 39 points (12g-27a) and appeared in two games with the Flyers. The six-foot-one, 192-pound forward posted NHL career-highs in 2005-06 with 13 points in 31 games with Chicago and Philadelphia.

Ellison was originally Chicago's fourth pick, 128th overall, in the fifth round of the 2002 NHL Entry Draft. The Duncan, B.C. native has posted 14 points (in 41 career NHL games from 2003-07 with Chicago and Philadelphia.

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I' sure it will wind up being either a draft pick or possibly a minor leager

[Andy]

I like Ellison.
I'm sad for this deal, but maybe we'll get a boom out of it.

[Wes]

This was a trade that was made for one reason and one reason only. Homer felt bad for Nashville after he raped them so terribly on the Forsberg trade.

Whatever/whomever we receive in return for Ellison, Philly still wins this trade. Ellison provided very little for a sub-par Phantoms team last season and we have a few younger guys that will be ready to step up into a forward role in the AHL very soon. (Matsumoto, Nodl, Laliberte, Greentree, Powe, Rheault, Clackson, Beaulieu, Tolpeko, etc.)

[tmcc]

Later dood.

[dutch74]

this trade only makes sense to maybe two people... and I have no idea who those two people would be.

I hope the trade activity outshines this "blockbuster"

[Chris]

I'm with Wes, I think Homer just feels bad about tearing the Predators a new one with the Forsberg deal.