"After some stops, starts and indecision, the Rangers and Flames finally agreed to a trade early Tuesday morning that brings likely top-line center Olli Jokinen to New York.

The Flames will get forwards Christopher Higgins and Ales Kotalik, both in their first year with the Rangers, while the Rangers also acquire potential enforcer Brandon Prust.

The deal was finalized after both Jokinen and Prust ended their Flames' careers in a 3-0 loss to the Flyers in Calgary. Jokinen took three shots and was a minus-1 in 15:08 while Prust played 7:27 without adding to his team-leading 98 penalty minutes.

Christopher Higgins had accompanied the Rangers to Los Angeles, where the team will conclude its three-game Western swing tonight against the Kings. Meanwhile, Ales Kotalik remained in New York where the team sent him after informing him in Phoenix he would be traded.

The complications the Rangers reported on Sunday when news first surfaced of the proposed deal were eventually settled. They apparently included Kotalik, who signed a three-year deal worth $9 million in the offseason, deciding whether to waive his limited no-trade clause, which included Calgary, and the Flames not signing off on the deal quickly, likely because they needed the bodies for Monday's game."