They have a cap hit of $60.613MM, which is $3.8MM over this year’s cap ceiling (keeping in mind that next year’s ceiling is supposed to go down by a couple million or, at best, stay the same). But at least…
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Thanks for nothing, Mike Milbury – Cult of Hockey
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Mike Milbury of the CBC, who didn’t exactly cover himself in glory as the general manager of the New York Islanders, offered the following to Oilers management: “They got to find the rats and get them off the ship because…
Tom Preissing Waived – Mile High Hockey
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The Colorado Avalanche have placed defenseman Tom Preissing on waivers. This is not at all a surprise move; its actually one weve been speculating would happen for some time now. Preissing has a $2.75 million salary and is signed through…
From Cult of Hockey: Patrick O’Sullivan gets ripped to shreds by CBC announcers Milbury, Hrudey
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I think this will sound familiar to Kings fans: “Get him out of there right now!” Milbury calls for O’Sullivan’s benching. I thought hockey fans could be tough and nasty in their player critiques on the Oilogosphere, but CBC announcers…
Chicago 2010 Cap Madness Watch
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ESPN is reporting that Kane and Toews extensions are imminent, at five years/$6MM+, and the Keith extension is also close, at around 13 years/undisclosed $. Were those deals to turn out to be true, the 2010-11 Hawks would be at…
Scotty Bowman predicts cap decline – MLive.com
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Scotty Bowman, the legendary former coach and now an adviser for the Chicago Blackhawks, believes next year’s NHL salary cap could drop about $2-million, a reasonable prediction given how little box-office revenue is being generated in Phoenix, Tampa and Atlanta.…
How the Kings Spend Their Cap Dollars Compared to Those Losers in Detroit, San Jose, Boston, Washington and Pittsburgh
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First, this is Mirtle’s post in full (my Kings-centric notes follow): This is something I was working on before vacation, a mini-study of how five of the NHL’s best teams are allocating their cap space this year. The five I…
Gauthier and O’Donnell to Oversee Kings’ Defense, According to People who Don’t Do Their Homework
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One unexpected windfall of successful clubs dealing with salary-cap troubles is that valuable talent is forced elsewhere. Such was the case with the Kings’ newest addition, Rob Scuderi, late of the Cup champion Penguins who was inked to a four-year…
Obviously
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Smyth, who was traded to the Kings from the Colorado Avalanche in July, likes what he has seen from his new team thus far. “I think what makes it is the guys here,” Smyth said. “The young guys, they make…
Cap (Idiots) Chart #?: Kessel Edition (bonus: why is Vancouver suddenly over the cap? I can’t figure out when that happened…)
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Lots of movement. The red zone is getting full, as one would expect in September. VAN has leapt to the head of the pack, and (as I mentioned above) I can’t figure out when that happened. I must have blinked.…