Canadiens trade Rene Bourque to Anaheim for Bryan Allen

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general manager Marc Bergevin has been doing a little bit of house cleaning over the past two weeks. The latest move involves the team sending struggling forward to the on Thursday afternoon in exchange for defenseman Wilson Ramos Jersey  .This move comes a little more than a week after the Canadiens sent veteran forward to the Dallas Stars in exchange for defenseman Sergei Gonchar.A consistent 20-goal scorer during his time in Calgary, Bourque never quite found that same level of succe Robert Gsellman Jersey  s in Montreal after coming over in a trade for Mike Cammalleri during the 2011-12 season. His best stretch of play was actually in last year's playoffs when he surprisingly scored eight goals in 17 games during the Canadiens' run to the Eastern Conference Final where they lost to the .  In 141 regular season games with the Canadiens, Bourque scored only 21 goals. He has yet to score in 13 games this season. Earlier this month the Canadiens put him on waivers where he went unclaimed and had been playing for the Hamilton Bulldogs, the Gary Carter Jersey  Canadiens' American Hockey League affiliate.Going to Montreal is the 34-year-old Allen, a stay-at-home defenseman that has appeared in six games for the Ducks this season.  Perhaps the biggest gain here for the Canadiens is that Allen is a free agent following this season while Bourque still has one more year remaining on  Michael Conforto Jersey his deal that pays him $3.3 million per season. If nothing else, it dumps a future salary cap hit they no longer want or need, which is exactly what they did last week in the Gonchar-Moen swap. Between those two deals Bergevin has cleard nearly $5 million in cap space off of  New York Mets Jersey Montreal's cap for next season.
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