In a bizarre turn of events this afternoon, the Montreal Canadiens were involved in a 3 team deal between the Arizona Coyotes and the Nashville Predators. The Arizona Coyotes announced this afternoon that they had traded Stefan Elliott to the Nashville Predators in exchange for defenceman Victor Bartley. Bartley was then flipped to the Canadiens along with John Scott for defensive prospect Jarred Tinordi and right winger Stefan Fournier.
27 year old defenceman Victor Bartely has 112 games under his belt, all with the Predators. With a deep defensive core, Bartley has only played a single game with Nashville this season, playing most of the season with Milwaukee of the AHL. Following the trade, Bartley has been assigned to St. Johns of the AHL.
The 6 foot 8, 260 pound sniper, John Scott has played for Minnesota, Chicago, New York, Buffalo, San Jose, Arizona and now Montreal. In his 285 game career, he has amassed a stunning total of 5 goals and 11 points along with 542 penalty minutes. Scott's best season came in the 2014-15 season with the Sharks where he tallied 3 goals and 1 assist in 38 games.
Fortunately, the Montreal Canadiens have no intentions of recalling Scott and will play the rest of the season with the St. Johns Ice Caps of the AHL. Due to this trade, Scott will no longer be eligible for the 2016 All-Star game in Nashville.
In all seriousness, this trade does create cap space and flexibility for Bergevin to work with, so expect another trade soon from the Canadiens. Scott was only part of the deal because the Arizona Coyotes and the NHL asked John to bow out of the All-Star game which he refused to do. Sending him to another team was the only way to make him ineligible for the All-Star game.
Here is John Scott's top 5 highlight reel goals:
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