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Captain Canuck is retired...with no Favre-like fan fare,
no special features, not even a plaque...just this article.
Penguins GM Ray Shero started his free agency
ball rolling today, trading the rights to forwards Ryan
Malone and Gary Roberts to the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Pens have initally received a fourth round draft pick from the Lightning, and if they are successful in signing at least Malone, that will turn into a third round pick.
TAMPA BAY – The Tampa Bay Lightning have
acquired the rights to left wings Ryan Malone and
Gary Roberts from Pittsburgh in exchange for a conditional draft pick in 2009, owners Oren Koules and Len Barrie announced. Should the Lightning ...
Ray Shero announced Saturday that the Pittsburgh Penguins
have traded the rights to pending unrestricted free agents
Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts to Tampa Bay.
for conditional pick
Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts are officially members
of the Tampa Bay Lightning, and defenceman Dan Boyle
might be the player in the team's cross-hairs. Malone has agreed to a seven year, $31.5 million contract, while Roberts agreed to terms on a one ...
Owner Oren Koules had previously said he planned
on being "in the backyards" of the NHL's top
unrestricted free agents during next week's feeding frenzy. Today, the Tampa Bay Lightning took an even more aggressive step: Trading away a ...
Michael Russo of the Star-Tribune has been all
over Brian Rolston 's impending free agency from the
Minnesota Wild : Reporting that Rolston intended to test the market as a UFA, before updated his blog with the rather stunning news that Rolston's ...
In a somewhat surprising move, Gary Roberts has
signed a one-year deal with the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Tampa Bay Lightning have kicked off free
agency with a bang by signing now former Pittsburgh
Penguins left wingers Ryan Malone and Gary Roberts to new contracts. The Malone deal $31.5 million over 7 years, is sure to raise a few eyebrows. However, the new Lightning owners were actually very shrewd in the way they structured it.
According to Damian Cristodero of the St.
Petersburg Times , Mike Liut, the agent for former
Penguins forward said a deal between his client and the Tampa Bay Lightning "is going to get done. ... I think we'll finish it today." ...
What do you conclude from the decisions made
by all four of Pittsburgh's name free agents --
Marian Hossa, Brooks Orpik, Ryan Malone, and Gary Roberts -- to take their playing services elsewhere for 2008-09? Contrast that with the reactions to playing in D.C. articulated this spring by new, free agent arrivals Sergei Fedorov and Cristobal Huet.
A feature on underappreciated players you may not
have realized are actually good, beneath it all. Up
first...J.D. Drew.












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