[Preds]

Originally Posted by Preds

Hamburg, NY April 10, 2002
by: Rhett Zone, Predators Correspondent

Predators GM Mike SantaLucia confirmed this morning the teams involvment in engineering what has to be considered the biggest "trade" in Feeding Frenzy history last night.

In all 5 teams, 10 players, and 8 draft picks (3 of which were exchanged twice) were involved.

The Predators started the evening off by trading Colts RB Damian Rhodes (281 cb’s for 1 year), along with rookie pick 2.10 to the Nittany Dodgers in exchange for WR Marty Booker (1165 cb’s for 1 year) , WR Mushin Muhammad (982 for 2 years), as well as the Dodgers 1.11 and 2.11 picks in the rookie draft. The deal was confirmed by the Dodgers this morning when Marty Booker was matched and concurently triggered the following:

The Predators sent Colts star WR Marvin Harrisson (2750 cb’s) and the 2.11 pick acquired from the Dodgers to the Detroit Wyvern’s in exchange for RB’s Michael Bennett (550 cb’s for 4 years), Kevan Barlow (110 cb’s for 3 years), and the Wyvern’s 1.06 and 3.06 rookie draft picks.

Parkwood then packaged two 1st round picks (1.06 and 1.10) and sent them to the Philadelphia Freedom for their 1.04 rookie pick and the Pittsburgh Steelers Defense (110 cb’s for 1 year).

Finally, the Predators acquired last years rookie RB sensation, LaDanian Tomlinson (1398 cb’s for 2 years) and rookie pick 1.05 from the Royal Hawaiian Opihi in exchange for RB Michael Pittman (457 for 1 year), Travis Henry (110 for 3 years) and rookie pick 1.04.

All 4 deals were contingent by acceptance of each deal by the 5 teams involved. Which occurred this evening when the Opihi accepted their deal. Confirmation will be posted here as well.

I’ll have more on this breaking story in the next few days.

The Insects deal with the Derby Cars of quantity for quality brought back memories of my blockbuster 18 player, 5 team deal of 2 years ago.

The core of my team is still the key players from this deal,

RB's LaDainian Tomlinson, Kevan Barlow and Michael Bennett
and WR Marty Booker and a pick which traded down and eventually became Ashley Lelie.

Considering I've been to the past 2 bowls and am the reigning champion (not to mention I still own the majority of key players from this deal) I'd say this deal worked out pretty OK for me ;)!