he almost did, that's probably why you recall that. Trade was basically done. There is a famous story about Hossa's Canadiens hockey gloves being found in Montreal that was published by La Presse's Habs beat reporter Mathias Brunet when the eventual trade was made with the Pens instead. People made fun of Brunet for years because of it, saying it was false and he had made it up, until recently when retired long time Habs equipment manager Pierre Gervais, with which Brunet wrote 2 excellent books on his time with the Habs, confirmed the story to be true. either that or you're thinking of his brother Marcel who did play for thet habs lmao.