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From TSN:
The Ottawa Senators finally resolved their contract dispute with defenceman Andrej Meszaros on Friday, trading the restricted free agent to the ever-changing Tampa Bay Lightning.
In exchange, the Senators received defencemen Filip Kuba and Alexandre Picard and a first round pick the Lightning previously acquired from the San Jose Sharks. Sources add that Meszaros is expected to ...
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From Michael Russo of the Minneapolis Star Tribune:
The Wild has had a number of talks with the agent of longtime checking center Stephane Yelle, but right now, Yelle’s agent Larry Kelly says the Wild has informed him they are “holding off.”
Yelle, 34, a gritty character guy and terrific faceoff centerman, is a two-time Cup winner with Colorado and spent the past five seasons with ...
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From Adam Proteau of The Hockey News:
From there, the picture gets a little less clear. A well-placed source in Tampa Bay told THN.com the Lightning had not yet submitted an offer sheet to Meszaros, but instead had attempted to re-acquire their third round pick from Pittsburgh (dealt away in the June trade for the negotiating rights to former Penguin Ryan Malone) so they could press on and ...
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Corey Wolfe of the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix interviews Troy Parchman , a Moose Jaw native now working as the equipment manager for the Chicago Blackhawks. The article even discusses Illegal Curves!
The SP: (Laughs) That’s some crafty coaching. OK, last question. Do you know if a player’s sticks are illegal?
Parchman: Oh yeah. Because if they are, it’s my fault. Most ...
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Ryan Kennedy of The Hockey News has an interesting article about how hockey serves as a de facto community in non-traditional hockey markets. Read the article here .
Some people will tell you sports don’t mean a lick in the grand scheme of things.
Intellectual Noam Chomsky is famous for derailing pro games as a means of controlling the minds of the masses, throwing them off the “real ...
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Toronto Maple Leafs
Barry Melrose Rocks points out an obviously serious situation whereby Jeremy Roenick has been named the 4th best video game athlete ever, and asks for people’s help in rectifying the situation.
Dear readers, an unjust travesty has befallen us (that will be the wordiest sentence this week, promise). Our good friend JR has been wronged and we must stand up and defend him. We must ...
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Jeremy Roenick
From Luke Decock of the News & Observer:
It’s a shame only 35 of the Hurricanes’ 41 road games will be on TV, but that’s not the big problem.
After all, three of those missing games conflict with Versus exclusive games. There’s no way around that.
But the other three are missing because FSN South didn’t want them, and wasn’t required to carry ...
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On Thursday afternoon, Illegal Curve was lucky enough to interview Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Zipay who covers the New York Rangers for Newsday. Among other things, Zipay touches on the Brendan Shananhan situation, the pressures Tom Renney will face this season, and who he sees as the Atlantic Division favorite.
Here is the interview:
Richard : Thanks for doing this Steve. Having ...
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According to a number of news agencies, Alaska
Governor Sarah Palin, a self-styled “hockey mom”, is Republican
Presidential candidate John McCain’s choice for Vice President. The official announcement is set for sometime early this afternoon. The Republican convention begins on Monday in the XCEL Energy Center, home of the Minnesota Wild. The Democrats had their convention ...
From David Pollak of the San Jose Mercury News:
“Patrick Marleau is the captain of this hockey club,” McLellan said at the time. “He has done nothing in my opinion to change that to this point. But in fairness to everybody involved, I would like to have the opprotunity to sit down with him and talk about leadership and the responsibilities that go with it. My experience with Patty, my ...
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From Mike Boone of the Montreal Gazette:
La Presse reports the Canadiens will retire Patrick Roy’s jersey number in November.
The club would not confirm the story. Columnist Richard Labbé was told the team plans to announce its centennial activities on Sept. 24.
Read the short entry from Habs Inside/Out here .
The Canadiens usually take a long time to retire numbers, so it ...
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Here are the morning papers for Friday the 29th of August:
Joe Sakic’s hernia problem last season factored into his decision making when it came time to decide whether he should return to the game for one more season, writes Terry Frei of the Denver Post. However, Sakic’s son Mitchell may have played the most important role in his dad’s decision.
Apparently Mats ...
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From Adam Proteau of The Hockey News:
Hours after Ottawa GM Bryan Murray held a news conference to announce the team was at a contractual impasse with restricted free agent defenseman Andrej Meszaros, The Hockey News has learned from an NHL source that Meszaros has agreed to a multi-year offer sheet with an average salary in excess of $5 million per season.
The team that has agreed to ...
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From Kevin Allen of USA Today:
That brings us to Jokinen. The Tampa Bay Lightning forward became expedable when the Lightning signed everyone with a pulse this summer. Jokinen doesn’t come with the danger factor that Radulov commands, and he’s not a superstar-in-waiting like Radulov was. But Jokinen netted 16 goals last season, and more importantly, he is one of the league’s best when it ...
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From George Richards of the Miami Herald:
If you want to watch most of the Panthers games on TV this season, that is.
FSN and Sun announced today they will only broadcast 65 of the team’s 82 games this season - down from 70 last season. If you shell out the bucks for the Center Ice package, however, you’ll get 79 of the 82 games.
Read the entire entry from On Frozen Pond ...
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From David Staples of the Edmonton Journal:
I got back from my vacation to read that the Oilers came close, yet once again, to committing salary cap suicide.
This time the team made a big pitch to sign Georges Laraque, going so far as to have owner Daryl Katz make a personal approach to his work-out buddy, and to offer big Georges $1.5 million a year for four years.
Read the entire ...
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From Aaron Portzline of the Columbus Dispatch:
Veteran forward Shane Willis has been invited to training camp on a tryout basis. His best year was 2000-01, when he had 20-24-44 with the Carolina Hurricanes. That was a long time ago. How long? The Blue Jackets’ leading scorers that season were Geoff Sanderson, Espen Knutsen and Steve Heinze.
Willis and another camp tryout invitee, ...
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From Curtis Zupke of the Orange County Register:
Gord Dineen , recently hired as coach of Ducks AHL affiliate Iowa, was an assistant coach with former AHL affiliate Portland last season and helped develop Ducks right wing Bobby Ryan (right).
Dineen was asked by XM Radio this week to evaluate Ryan’s ability to play full-time in the NHL right now.
Here was his take:
“There’s no ...
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THN’s Adam Proteau sat down with Paul Kelly to discuss the state of the NHL. Check out the parts of the interview here .
In early August, I sat down with NHL Players’ Association executive director Paul Kelly in his Toronto office for an hour-long conversation regarding his first year on the job.
Portions of that interview – including Kelly’s thoughts on European expansion, building ...
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From David Pollak of the San Jose Mercury News:
Marc-Edouard Vlasic’s four-year contract extension will pay him $12.4 million between the 2009-10 and 2012-13 seasons. That’s an annual $3.1 million salary cap hit, even though the money isn’t spread equally over each of the four seasons. In Year One, for example, Vlasic is expected to earn $2.4 million.
GM Doug Wilson didn’t want to talk ...
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