Phoenix Coyotes Trade Kevyn Adams

Today, the Phoenix Coyotes trade center Kevyn Adams for 26-year-old winger Radim Vrbata from the Chicago Blackhawks. The Blackhawks get a solid veteran player with plenty of playoff and Stanley Cup Final experience, plus he's an excellent face-off man.

The Coyotes get a young player in Vrbata that was second on his team in overall scoring, and has outperformed Adams in almost all of the statistical values with his career stats of 75 goals and 95 assists. Last season, he was tied for first on power play goals with five.

Vrbata comes with a $1.225 million price tag to Adams $650,000, but with the cap room that the Coyotes have, they can absorb the cost. Vrbata looks like a player that will only get better and he will see plenty of ice time.

Unfortunately, I didn't want to see Adams go, but in this case, the Coyotes fill a much needed spot with Vrbata.

Therefore, both sides benefit from the trade today.

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You have to take into consideration that Vrbata's 41 points are a career high and that he has a season best of 15 goals. His shooting percentage was a paltry 6.51 % last season, as he fired 215 shots on the net. With Martin Havlat (25 32 57 in 56 games), Patrick Sharp (20 15 35 in 80 games), Rene Bourque (7 10 17 in 44 games), Martin Lapointe (13 11 24 in 82 games), along with youngsters Brian Bickell, top overall pick Patrick Kane, recently acquired Sergei Samsonov, the Hawks have enough depth on the wings to make this move. They needed a PK, grinding type C. Robert Lang, Yanic Perreault and Tuomo Ruutu will probably center the top three lines, but Adams gives them a second decent faceoff guy, since Perreault usually leads the league, and an effective PK center, which the Hawks desperately needed to help out their club.

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