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The biggest bargaining chip going into Monday’s Brad Marchand Jersey 3 p.m. NHL trade deadline was Rick Nash of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Nash, 27, is in his eighth season with Columbus and considered the perfect piece for any team looking to pick up a superstar scorer. But as the deadline passed, Nash remained a member of the Blue Jackets in what might just be the biggest debacle in the team’s 12-year history. Just days after the Blue Jackets traded Jeff Carter away in an effort to shed some salary, it seemed as though Nash would be the next to go. Columbus is the worst team in the NHL – in fact the next closest team is 13 points ahead of the Blue Jackets – and with another last place division finish eminent, Milan Lucic Jersey the Blue Jackets are focusing on the future as they begin to rebuild. Nash was the perfect bargaining chip for Columbus and with a cap hit of $7.8 million, it would allow the team to begin to make a change. But as the deadline came and went, nothing happened. Though later it turned out Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson might have dropped the ball on shipping Nash out of Columbus. With interest from several teams, Howson hoped to create a bidding war for Nash Nathan Horton Jersey and he set the price high – too high – but the Eastern Conference leading Rangers know that Nash could make the team an odds-on cup favorite. And the Rangers were willing to pay for Nash. As the deadline approached, New York offered a deal that almost all teams would have taken. According to Larry Brooks of the New York Post, Rangers GM Glen Sather offered Howson Brandon Dubinsky, 21-year-old top defensive prospect Tim Erixon, 2011 first-round pick J.T. Miller and 2010 second-round pick Christian Thomas, along with New York’s first-round selection for the 2012 draft. To turn down a jaw-dropping trade of that caliber which would potentially help turn the franchise around Patrice Bergeron Jersey seems foolish but Howson set the price high and expected more for his captain.
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