This Week In Sports: February 29th

NHL:

The trade deadline came and went without much fanfare for a second consecutive year, with only 15 trades being completed on the final day of wheeling and dealing. On the local front, the Habs refrained from a full-blown fire sale, only moving enigma Andrei Kostitsyn to Nashville for a 2nd round pick while also getting back the pick Montreal sent over in the Hal Gill trade. While the return seems underwhelming, Kostitsyn hadn't exactly made himself that endearing to other teams with his lackluster play over the last twenty games. The major changes will come in the summer when a new management team will no doubt come in and perform a clean sweep.


NBA:

The NBA All-Star weekend has come and gone, with no shortage of storylines. The weekend began with a volley of questions headed in Dwight Howard's direction, as the Orlando Magic's franchise player has been the subject of trade rumours since the beginning of the season. The basketball world then turned its attention to the Skills Competition, highlighted by Kevin Love's impressive win in the three-point challenge, followed by a victory for Jeremy Evans in the Slam Dunk contest. Evans underwhelmed with his first dunk, but then brought the house down with an unreal dunk of two balls tossed up by a teammate sitting under the basket.

But perhaps the most newsworthy thing to come out of the weekend happened in the actual All-Star game, when Dwayne Wade inadvertently hit Kobe Bryant in the face, resulting in a broken nose and a mild concussion for Bryant. Conspiracy theories are running rampant, but I think its safe to say that the injury was accidental.


NFL:

The biggest news in the NFL is coming out of Indianapolis, as it has been for the past month, except this time it's not about Peyton Manning. The NFL Combine took place in Indy this week and, as it has been for years, players' stocks are rising and falling as we approach the Draft in April. One of the biggest names has only helped himself this week, as Robert Griffin Jr. III ran a fantastic 40-yard dash while impressing every team he was interviewed by; this is sweet music to the ears' of the front office of the St.Louis Rams, who hold the 2nd overall pick and will probably get a massive return from the team who falls in love with Griffin and wants to move up to grab him with the Rams pick.

-Andrew Maggio co-hosts Game Misconduct every Sunday from 12pm-2pm and runs a dedicated Habs blog that you can check out here