As the Heatley world turns....

The saga continues. As we all know, Dany Heatley has requested a trade from the Senators, a year after signing a 6 year contract extension worth $45 million. There is also the matter of that little $4 million bonus hanging over his head owed by July 1st. So as the Sens are so desperately trying to trade Heatley before the deadline as to avoid that bonus, nothing is happening. Well, what do you expect? It's not that teams don't want Heatley, not that at all. Plenty of teams want him, its just the asking price seems a little too steep for some teams to give up. Until tonight! Well so we thought. There were reports all over the continent saying that Dany Heatley was an Oiler. The deal was done, and Cogliano, Penner and Smid were on their way to Ottawa. Seems like a good deal, Edmonton gets a goal scorer, and they also get rid of that dead-weight Penner, and Ottawa gets a good player in Cogliano. And Smid? Well, he's decent, let's just say that. It was a DONE DEAL...BUT...not long after the deal was reported as done did we hear that Heatley had denied waiving his NTC. Wow, Heatley. Just WOW. How can a player that is demanding a trade turn down so many teams? This is just making his trade value go down. Teams are putting up the red flag already, and he pulls this? I'm not so sure anymore that I want him to come to Los Angeles. Crazy. We'll see what happens in the hockey world tomorrow. Should be hectic and busy as usual. I can't wait!

Oh one more thing, looks like Calgary won the JayBo sweepstakes. A day after Florida traded his rights to the Flames, they signed him to a 5-year deal worth $6.6 million before he hit the UFA market. Good move by Calgary. Now where is Phaneuf going to end up?