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Staal brothers to New Jersey
June 26th 2015 - The rebuild of the Quebec Nordiques has started, as the team announced two trades in the days following the NHL Entry Draft. First, the team traded diminutive forward Nathan Gerbe, who scored 24 goals and 57 points last year with the Hurricanes, to the Dallas Stars for two hard working forwards and a prospect :
To Dallas : LW Nathan Gerbe, LD John-Michael Liles
To Quebec : LW Antoine Roussel, RW Colton Sceviour and rights to LD John Nyberg
But most importantly, the team has traded the Staal brothers together to the New Jersey Devils. Speculation had been going wild in the last few weeks regarding the destination of the brothers, and if they were going to be traded together or not. The rumor had been that New Jersey was a front runner along with Toronto, Colorado and Winnipeg, but the return is significantly lower than what had been speculated :
To New Jersey : C Eric Staal, C Jordan Staal
To Quebec : C Adam Henrique, C Jacob Josefson, RD Adam Larsson
"We get younger, we get hard workers, and most importantly we get players with very high potential. Larsson has showed at the end of last season that he can be the dominant defenseman he was promised to be when he came into the league. He is only 22 years old." said GM Dale Hunter.
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