MONTREAL (AP) -- The Montreal Canadiens made it official Friday that they will be sellers leading up to the NHL trade deadline, dealing defenseman Hal Gill to the Nashville Predators for a draft pick and a piece of their history in the grandson of late Hall of Famer Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion.
Montreal sent Gill and a conditional 2013 fifth-round draft pick to Nashville for Blake Geoffrion, prospect Robert Slaney and a 2012 second-round pick.
But Geoffrion will have to wait to don a Montreal jersey after the Canadiens assigned him to Hamilton of the American Hockey League.
