Meanwhile, 300 km up Highway 2, rumours persist that Edmonton GM Steve Tambellini is shopping one of his four offensive defenceman in an attempt to kickstart the rebuild in Edmonton. We’re hearing Sheldon Souray to Los Angeles — where his children live with his ex-wife, a long distance relationship that Souray has found taxing through two…
Monthly Archives: June 2009
From Matthew Barry: Say What? Phaneuf to the Kings???
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I was talking about the draft to a person with huge ties to the Kings and we started talking about the up-coming free agency period. He/She said “What would you think about the Phaneuf kid playing for the Kings?” Of course I replied, “What do you know?” A chuckle ensued followed by “Can’t tell you…
NHL Transactionist (NHLTransactions) on Twitter
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TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING: Made qualifying offers to forwards Blair Jones, Martins Karsums, Radek Smolenak and Lauri Tukonen… via NHL Transactionist (NHLTransactions) on Twitter.
From Tom Benjamin’s NHL Blog: Still Pretending
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I don’t know why hockey fans still get sucked in by all the trade talk in the period that leads up to the draft. I don’t know how hockey reporters can keep buying any of the trade whispers they hear. The fact is there are very few trades in this league. That should quash virtually…
From HockeyBuzz.com – Matthew Barry: Enough Draft Talk – It’s FREE AGENT Time!!!
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With my unsolicited comments: I still say Travis Moen is a King July 1st – That would complete the Handzus/Simmonds line. Okay, that would be interesting. I also think Samuelsson comes over to play with Simmonds and Handzus – – Oh, wait. So, Moen would be … LW on the Stoll/Brown line? I think it…
Red Line Report’s list – USATODAY.com: “Somebody will get an itchy trigger finger early in the second round” — GUESS WHO!
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Both Jerry D’Amigo and Kyle Clifford flew under the radar a bit despite coming from hockey scouting hotbeds in Ann Arbor, Mich. and Ontario. D’Amigo, a New York native who has been a member of the U.S. Under-18 team, has been overlooked a bit since he was not considered one of the flashy offensive stars…
The Puck Stops Here : “There are a few things we can say about the draft which are probably true”
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Yep. On average three players selected in the draft will go on to have Hall of Fame careers. It is hard to identify them at this point. It is a reasonable guess that John Tavares may be one of them, but that is far a certainty. Probably at least one of them is not yet…
Klingberg, Budish, Shore, Brown, Nettinen
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I think DL likes Budish. You heard it here first. But you didn’t. Because you don’t know where here is, and I have the stats to prove it.
From (the great) Matthew Barry: I Loved All The Things That DIDN’T Happen!
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1) Tavares – So Dreger and the Union Leader and almost everyone else on XM204 was saying Duchene was going first – THAT didn’t happen and it didn’t seem like there was ever any doubt it was Tavares. Dreger – so plugged in, and yet… 2) Brian Burke’s failure to move up – yes, he…
Just Saying: Philly is at $56MM and change with six players left to sign
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They’ll need at minimum $5MM to do it, and they’ve got about $1.5MM in cap space. Let’s just pretend that they spend a reasonable $8MM on those six players. They’ve got to shed more than $6.5MM in salary by October. I guess maybe they can give Briere away; that would about cover it. Unfortunately, nobody…