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from Derek Van Diest of the Edmonton Sun, This off-season Bouwmeester and the Panthers nearly went to arbitration, instead settling on a last-minute, one-year deal worth $4.8-million.
Once the contract is up, Bouwmeester is free to go play where he chooses.
“I think both sides were happy with it,” he said. “I wasn’t prepared to sign anything long term at this ...
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Florida Panthers
from Stan Fischler at the Hockey Journal, While Mats Sundin and Joe Sakic have kept half the civilized hockey world holding its breath over their play-or-not-to-play decision, we’ll unequivocally assert that each will return to the NHL for 2008-09. The reason is as obvious as a $6 million contract. Who’s kidding whom? These guys love the moolah – and attention – as ...
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Joe Sakic
Sean Avery
Patrick Roy
Risebrough says he has not had any trade conversations regarding Gaborik and has not gotten any calls from other GM’s (which I find hard to believe on the latter). He says he’s only concentrating on signing Gaborik before the Oct. 11 opener.
He wouldn’t answer hypotheticals when asked if he feels he’d have to trade Gaborik before the season if the winger makes it ...
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Minnesota Wild
“Obviously a player of Mats Sundin’s stature…he’s been a tremendous player for a long time,” said Holmgren. “He’s a free agent, and we’ve made inquiries as to his status. We don’t know whether he’s going to play or not. I think Mats is still trying to decide that in his own timeframe. But, if he wants to play, we’d certainly ...
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Philadelphia Flyers
The Predators dancing girls have their own blog . And it’s brilliant, perhaps even inspiring. For instance, here’s yesterday’s good times:
I definitely have to send a big thank you to Ron’s mom, who sent him with three bags of homemade cookies (Ron works with the Preds and helps Adam coordinate a lot of our events). The cookies have been a big hit!
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Vancouver Canucks
The Bertuzzi/Crawford story all over the ‘net today has felt like an episode of deja vu as it reminded me vaguely of something else from the moment I read the first reports. But it wasn’t till I read this headline and opener on TSN that it finally clicked:
Sound familiar? No?
It’s that overused theme of sports-equals-war I’m talking about. ...
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Not sure if the Pensblog boys have caught
this one yet. I’m sure it’s an image that
will bring them nothing but sunshine and puppy-like joy. Continue reading "81 In Red and White"
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Oh the anticipation. A2Y interns straight from Marquette
have been scouring the state, soliciting your views on
our next entry in the Official A2Y Rivalry Depth Chart. Tonite: the Blues. First, a reminder of how we developed The ...
TSN seems to have all kinds of fun in store for Canadian hockey fans this year, and their off-season news rolls out nicely when considered together as some demented screenplay.
For instance:
Continue reading "Working Script: TSN Drama"
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Vancouver Canucks
I love watching the Olympics but it occurs to me to wonder: Is there something a bit… off?… about watching this stuff?
While it’s amazing to witness the triumphs (i.e. the Michael Phelps story was a big ‘wow’ (not to mention, a financial payoff likely to make even Mats Sundin jealous); or the redemption of the Canadian men’s eights as they abolished ...
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Mats Sundin
I’ve received a lot of emails from readers since Michael Nylander put his Potomac home on the market and that news hit the blog circuit. I’m hearing that it’s nothing more than Nylander wanting to purchase another home (yes, in the Washington area). I’m not saying that he won’t be asked to waive his NTC and get traded, all I’m saying is that there’s ...
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Washington Capitals
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Michael Nylander
Good morning. Hello. Spent the last eight days in the mountains of North Carolina and I appear before you a dumber man today than I was the last time we spoke.
Now...hold on. Has my brain slowed due to more than a week of exposure to the good folk of NC? It’s logical that you may think so.
But that’s not it.
Continue reading "Jonas Brothers Declare ...
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from Contact Music, Actress/singer Hilary Duff has sparked rumours she’s taking her relationship with hockey star Mike Comrie to the next level, after she was snapped wearing a ring on her wedding finger.
The 20-year-old star was spotted leaving Hollywood’s Il Sole restaurant with National Hockey League (NHL) star Comrie on Friday night (15Aug08) when she flashed her left ...
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Hilary Duff
Mike Comrie
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New York Islanders
EA Sports is putting out NHL ‘09 on September 9th , and in anticipation they’ve released their player rankings for every team’s roster. Those rankings use a pile of criteria some of which appear more subjective than those determined by straight statistics.
For the details, you can click here and scroll down to see each player’s rankings on their team page. ...
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Vancouver Canucks
I think it is fine the way it is now, everything is always the goalies’ fault. It makes me laugh. Whenever there’s something wrong in hockey, it’s always the goalies’ fault. Every player thinks our gear is too big.”
-Pascal Leclaire in the Sporting News Today
Heck, I thought everyone blamed Gary Bettman when something went wrong!
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Gary Bettman
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Columbus Blue Jackets
from Larry Wigge of NHL.com, Call it the next step.
It’s the difference between playing against boys in junior hockey or in college and playing against men in the National Hockey League. It’s a daunting task. It’s a physical drain of growing into your body more quickly than ever before. It’s wanting it more than anything else you’ve ever done.
And with ...
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Tampa Bay Lightning
Los Angeles Kings
St. Louis Blues
Toronto Maple Leafs
from Fluto Shinzawa of the Boston Globe, With both Tim Thomas and Manny Fernandez entering the final year of their contracts, the Bruins have a game plan to address their goaltending in 2009-10 and beyond. At this point, it would make sense to extend the 34-year-old Thomas, especially if Tuukka Rask isn’t ready for the NHL in 2009-10. Thomas, in the last season of a contract worth an ...
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Boston Bruins
Vancouver Canucks
Tim Thomas
Manny Fernandez
Chris Osgood
From Dan Wood at Ducks Blog,
Just because we haven’t heard anything about it lately doesn’t mean that something couldn’t still come from the Ducks’ formal tampering charge against the Edmonton Oilers.
The NHL gave Edmonton until Friday to respond to the charge filed last month by Ducks general manager Brian Burke after comments made by then-Oilers general ...
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Anaheim Ducks
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Byron Ritchie à Genève Selon divers médias romands,
Genève-Servette a engagé le centre canadien Byron Ritchie. En
provenance des Vancouver Canucks (NHL), ce centre râblé est le 5e étranger des Vernets ...
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I’m not too hip to pop culture, and
so the fact that Tori Spelling has a reality
television show with her Canadian love monkey Dean McDermott had barely registered on my radar. That is, till Dean brought a video camera to the arena with ...
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