The final ticks of a slow moving clock. The Final hour to deadline (2 to 3 PM ET, 11 to Noon PT)

Sixty minutes to salvage the show.

Can we get a blockbuster, a multi player deal how about an announcement that Phoenix is moving to Quebec City, really we're looking for something for the final hour.

As we count down the final 60 minutes of deadline day, the results are easy to tabulate.

Four trades on the day, two Dads at the hospital waiting for a special delivery in the maternity ward and so far at least, no laryngitis, despite the non stop talk.

In short, the Trade Deadline show is morphing into a Seinfeld episode, a whole show about nothing...

Bob McKenzie breaks news of a trade between Ottawa and Tampa Bay, which will see Ben Bishop heading to the west coast of Florida Cory Conacher and a 4th round pick are bound for Ottawa...

Clearly the Tampa Bay option for Mike Gillis is no longer something up for consideration, no Florida beach time for strombone for the short term.

TSN scores the coup gaining a conversation with Bishop but three minutes after Bryan Murray tells him he's been traded.

Consensus is that the trade is a good thing for Bishop, allowing him the chance to gain number one status in Tampa as opposed to the depth chart position he played in Ottawa.

Meanwhile in the world of future considerations, a stork watch retraction,  there is some thought that Jussi Jokinen's wife is not at the moment giving birth...

Sportsnet grabs Cory Conacher to gain his take on the move to the Sens. He appears optimistic about the move to the Senators and actually becomes the leading scorer on the team without even putting on his skates, clearly time for a contract re-negotiation.

Another goaltender is on the move, with Steve Mason leaving Columbus, now destined for that goaltenders' graveyard of Philadelphia.

Sportsnet gets the phone call in first with Mason, who tells the panel he hopes to find the way to fit in wherever the Flyers want to place him,

The move however, is apparently not to universal acclaim...

And another team falls off the Mike Gillis contact list...

Meanwhile, we imagine the Philadelphia media will be offering up some fascinating Bryzgalov quotes in the hours to come.

TSN floats the rumour of Gaborik to Columbus, about as off Broadway as one could possibly get...

Gaborik to Columbus gets confirmed with Derick Brossard, John Moore and Derek Dorsett bound for New York.

The Wild and the Sabres make a deal with Jason Pominville off to Minnesota, awaiting word of who is Buffalo bound.

With a flurry of action heading into the final 15 minutes, some significant changes to some of the still in contention teams, Columbus it seems is going with the lets make the playoffs now planning.

Are the Canucks messing with the journalistic pack???

Somehow I picture Luongo, under the stands chuckling to himself, twitter stand by....

Back on the trading floor it seems that Calgary has traded Blake Comeau to Columbus, suddenly the Blue Jackets turn into the trading machine of 2013..

The Bells are ringing, the horns are blaring, the deadline has arrived, all that's left is to push the still in progress offerings through the pipeline to the finish line.

The Raffi Watch is over, Torres goes to San Jose, in exchange for a 2013 3rd round pick.

And as the brush fire of the final half hour of deals clears, it would seem that Roberto Luongo ain't going anywhere, at least until the summer... never to early to spur on the speculation...

As for other teams that made no deals on deadline day,among those who remained rather quiet today,  Montreal, Winnipeg, Detroit, Toronto, Anaheim...

Toronto actually made a deal,  Ryan O'Byrne to the Leafs for a 4th rounder.

Anaheim and Phoenix swing a deal, Matthew Lomardi to the land of the duck, Brandon McMillan to join the wandering den of Coyotes.

New Jersey grabs Steve Sullivan from Phoenix for a seventh round pick.

The cantankerous Bob McCown takes back the set for a bit, (a segment brought to us by Jurassic Park 3), a discussion with Mike Keenan on how to better improve the Deadline process, with the prospect of a trading window to take away from the Deadline process.

In the midst of all the post deadline coverage, a trip to Vancouver for a most fascinating press conference, where Roberto Luongo addressed the voracious Vancouver media, outlining how he handled the drama of the day and where we all go from here.

And it's off to Calgary, where Jay Feaster outlines why Mikka Kiprusoff remains a Flame and other sundry items about the Southern Alberta collective.

Vancouver is next on the post deadline GM's parade.

So, we've had two GM's discussing why their goaltenders did not move. One who didn't want to leave and almost did, the other one who has expressed a wish for some kind of resolution and found none.

The late to the party Washington Capitals apparently on the cusp of announcing their deal with Martin Erat of the Predators apparently Ovietown bound.

Minnesota and Anaheim get the last word, as the Wild added goaltending depth picking up Jeff Deslauriers from Anaheim in exchange for future considerations from the Ducks.

Tick Tock, we're on the sloooooow moving clock. (Noon to 1 PM ET, 9 -10 AM PT)

And for those that slept in, congratulations, a wise decision, you haven't missed much.

To recap, Mikka Kiprusoff won't be leaving Calgary, rumours as to his potential retirement marked the last hour.

And that's about it...

Wait, late breaking news, Roberto Luongo has.... arrived at Rogers Arena.

The Trade Deadline watch is shifting, we're now anxiously awaiting the pick ups off the waiver wire, I sense a new feature for the sports options, Waiver madness...

I sense that the 30 league GM's joined together in secret conclave, this lack of trade action is just their little inside joke...

This just in from Montreal...

It's been a while since we took Grade 10 French, but we believe this means that Carey Price is not on the trading block today... Just a guess..

How is Ryan Miller not listed as trade bait, Buffalo who seem to be waving the white flag these days could gain some great pick ups for him and Miller could use a change of scenery as well...

For those wondering how the morning went, Bruce Arthur has the recap...

Big news out of Switzerland, a changing of the guard... we imagine the Strategy room is working this story as we speak..

Ooooh a Trade

TSN outlines the details

A minor league deal is consummated between the Bruins and Black Hawks, Maxime Sauve is moving to Chitown for Rob Flick, the discussion is short on the merits of that blockbuster.

And Sportsnet goes back to the Strategy Room, where baseball players offer up praise for Iron Mike Keenan and throw a few questions to him...

Sportsnet's Bob McCown turns on his twitter feed

He will no doubt expand on this further when he joins the Sportsnet conclave shortly...

TSN in the meantime wraps up their interview with Ryan Clowe, now appearing on Broadway...

And finally a tangible trade report

Sportsnet offering up that Scott Hannan is off to San Jose, details apparently still to come..

For those following at home, that's Sportsnet 1, TSN 0 on name brand trading.. somehow they haven't confirmed the Hannan move to San Jose...

Though to be fair, Pierre LeBrun did  make mention of the possibilities earlier in the hour.

"Most of the action usually happens in the last couple of hours" James Duthie, explaining or wishing, you decide...

And for your viewing pleasure Mike Milbury is back on TSN, offering up his observations on the state of events in Calgary...

Meanwhile over on the internet, Nick Kypreos advises that we should be watching the Jersey shore very carefully in the next two hours...

Gord Miller interrupts things to advise that Florida has made a trade with the Oilers, with Jerred Smithson leaving the beaches of South Florida destined for Oil Country, Florida gaining a fourth round pick in exchange. 

Oh and by the way, Pierre LeBrun reminds his TSN team mates that the Hannan trade took place...

LOL, ah confusion reigns on Sportsnet as they find that live television and live radio sometimes don't quite work out in sync...

TSN meanwhile makes the year for Rob Flick, part of the minor league trade that registers as the first trade of the day, hopefully someone has made a copy for the Flick's to keep in the family archives.

Tick, Tock, you're on the clock... (11-Noon AM ET, 8-9 AM PT)

Hour three opens up on TSN with the Trade Breakers, lonely guys who make the Maytag Repair guy look overworked.

Ottawa is the topic of the start of the hour and whether they will move Ben Bishop, his value apparently has increased as the season has progressed, five teams apparently keeping Ottawa on speed dial to try and snare him.

Ah the real meat of the programming now, TSN with Jay Onrait discussing commercial placements, agreed Shamwow guy has go to go (actually he came close did he not, something in Florida comes to mind)

Sadly we resemble the blogger in the basement reference, though not quite a basement, more of a ground level studio, we digress.

For the love of God, someone swing a couple of minor leaguers for a zamboni please.

Whew, we switch to the TSN Reporters panel, who discuss hockey and offer some interesting observations on the situation in Calgary, where playoff hockey is something you will be watching on TV (for the sake of everyone in Cowtown perhaps the Oilers could skip the playoffs as well)

Sportsnet stakes out the Calgary Westin, some nice rides in Calgary, though parking seems to be a problem at the Westin...

Well the pace of this deadline day means were less than an hour from the combined cast of TSN and Sportsnet doing their version of Les Miserables... Look Down, Look Down, don't look him in the eye...

No Trade but TSN offers up the word that Mikka Kiprusoff won't waive his No Trade clause and will apparently retire at the end of the season.

So.... Luongo to the Leafs back on the front burner then?

And now both networks offer up the in depth review of what Kiprusoff will do and if Luongo should stark packing, anyone wonder if Buffalo would trade Ryan Miller to Toronto, dare they be that bold?

So, the main story of the day thus far, a trade won't take place.

TSN heats up the Ben Bishop will move from Ottawa theme, the Sens are entertaining offers, the price for Bishop goes up with Kiprusoff taking his name out of circulation.

TSN runs a Lotto 6/49 commercial, dream the dream viewers, dream the dream...

Oooh, an interview with a guy traded yesterday, we're getting on to business now..

Sportsnet takes us to the strategy room, and to prove it's not on tape, Mike Keenan is sitting beside Pat Quinn this time around, it's the little things you notice.

Not understanding all the anti Kiprusoff talk on twitter at the moment, he was a pretty darn good goaltender through the years, saddled up on a team that never seemed serious about trying to win a Stanley Cup...

Steve Simmons nails all this trade deadline non activity today...

Sportsnet leaves the Strategy room, the strategy of the moment, looking for toughness on the panel in the studio, this is a segment crying out for an appearance by Brian Burke... he could offer some insight into truculence of sports analysts..

Bill Waters offers up a pretty good observation on the Luongo situation...

Unless Vancouver is ready to cut a cheque for Roberto to take with him to any potential destination, there most likely won't be a deal.

TSN picks up on that theme with Keith Jones and hey that's Mike Milbury... we dare to hope that TSN asks him about what those other guys at Sportsnet are offering up with the Milbury rankings... now that would be some fine television.

Milbury looks like everyone's dad at the moment, trying to figure out his communication device as it keeps pinging away while he's on the air...

Tick, tock, you're on the clock... (8-10 ET, 5-7 PT)

You've built up that "bad cold" credence for the last week, cancelled that long sought after root canal at the dentist and bunkered down in front of the big screen, ready to do the quantum mathematics of capology 101.

Trading Deadline Day has arrived once again, the annual celebration of sub-leases and moving vans across the NHL map, as contenders stock up on the players they think will take them deep into a June Stanley Cup run and the pretenders unload those contracts they never should have signed and begin anew the call of "wait til next year"

And with the arrival of the NHL's day of destiny the sports channels once again unleash the battalions upon our television screens, eager to be the first with the breaking news, more than likely requiring all of that talking head talent just to fill up some time.

The day began at 8 AM in the East, 5 AM in the West (really anyone think that a GM is phoning his player at 5 AM to tell him he's been traded, sorry, not going to happen) and from our observations thus far, the features of the deadline shows are going to be getting a pretty vigorous workout.

Panels, bloggers, tweeters, GM conclaves it's all been in place for the first two hours.

Much discussion on who needs what, not so much on who has acquired whom. One interesting thing is that for the most part, the commercial breaks have been in sync, making your trek to the coffee maker that much more efficient.

Dave Hodge's The TSN Reporters panel offers up an extension of their Sunday morning review of events and will be worth seeking out as the morning morphs into afternoon, likewise the Sportsnet Trading Desk offers up the usual collective of hockey observers, all no doubt hoping to have the scoop of the day, though surely everyone has learned from last week's Iginla's going to Boston moments...

One thing perhaps worth keeping an eye out for as you channel surf through the morning, the Milbury Rating Scale on Sportsnet, where Puck Daddy (doing double duty) will rate the trades on a sliding scale of importance as though Mike Milbury had been left in the room with a cel phone. That could make for some entertaining commentary as the day moves along.

The hour by hour reviews continue on, the archive of network portals and past trades to date can be found in our Pre Game Skate section, near the top of our right hand column.