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Snapshots: Marian Hossa signs with Blackhawks: $5.2 million per year for 12 years
The Manic Ranger - A New York Rangers Blog: Chicago Blackhawks Sign Marian Hossa To 12 Year Deal
Puck Daddy: Hossa signs with the Blackhawks; massive chuckling ensues
Marian Hossa signs with Blackhawks: $5.2 million per year for 12 years
Snapshots —
... cap hit for 12 years. So he took another $12 million over what the Wings were offering. When you're already being guaranteed $40 million, I have no sympathy for you going for more bucks. Update 2:19 PM : TSN provides a linked story , and Sportsnet's Mark Spector ...
Chicago Blackhawks Sign Marian Hossa To 12 Year Deal
The Manic Ranger - A New York Rangers Blog —
via TSN.ca
After signing big-money free agents like Nikolai Khabibulin,Brian Campbell and Cristobal Huet over the last few summers, the Chicago Blackhawks have kept the momentum going by signing star winger Marian Hossa to a multi-year contract.
Hossa's story has been well documented over the past year, leaving Pittsburgh after their Cup loss to Detroit in 2008, only to join the very team that defeated them. Then he was forced to watch from the sidelines again, this time as a ...
Hossa signs with the Blackhawks; massive chuckling ensues
Puck Daddy —
Marian Hossa's career judgment is probably on the level of Dana Carvey leaving SNL for the movies right now, but let's give him the benefit of the doubt on this blockbuster deal with the Chicago Blackhawks. Hossa signed today for $62.4 million over 12 years. That's a $5.2 million cap hit per season. Hossa gets north of $5 million, which was something he wasn't going to get from the Detroit Red Wings. He gets the job security he surrendered for a second-place finish last season for the Stanley Cup. Sure, he left ...
Hossa Is An Upgrade Over Havlat
Foul Balls —
... to a 12-year deal for $62 million -- the deal is front-loaded with Hossa getting $59.3 million in the first eight years and $3.5 million over the final four -- we can all pretty much be sure that Martin Havlat's time as a Chicago Blackhawks is done. I'm not happy about this as Havlat was one of my favorite players on the team, but personal feelings aside, this is a definite upgrade for the Blackhawks. Unlike Havlat during his time here, Hossa has no problem staying healthy and on the ice. In his ten full seasons in the NHL Marian has never played less than 72 games in a ...
Free Agent signings - UPDATED
The Hockey Herald —
Confirmed Notable Signings
- Nikolai Khabibulin signs in Edmonton, four years, $15 million
- Scott Niedermayer re-signs in Anaheim, one year, $6 million
- Dwayne Roloson signs in New York, two years, $5 million
- Marian Hossa signs in Chicago, 12 years, $62.4 million
- David Booth re-signs in Florida, six years, $25.5 million
- Mattias Ohlund signs in Tampa, seven years, $24.5 million
- Daniel and Henrik Sedin re-sign in Vancouver, five years, ...
Martin Havlat’s Career With Chicago Uncertain as Blackhawks Sign Marian Hossa
Midwest Sports Fans —
The Chicago Blackhawks have one more day to sign either forward Martin Havlat or Nikolai Khabibulin. Free agent signing started today at 11 a.m. If the Hawks are going to sign anybody it will most likely be Havlat. No disses to Khabibulin, but everyone is expecting the Hawks to let him go because of the $22.5 million contract that Huet has. I would love to see Khabibulan stay, but it just doesn’t seem too realistic right now. Even Havlat isn’t a sure thing. Dale Tallon has talked to both players’ agents, but there has been no luck.
Martin Havlat was voted team MVP and was the team leader in points ...
Hossa Signs 12-year Deal With Chicago
Hockey Beat —
After defecting from the Pittsburgh Penguins to join the Detroit Red Wings because he thought he had a better chance of winning the Stanley Cup (it was so rough when Detroit ended up losing Pittsburgh), Marian Hossa has jumped ship again.
The Chicago Blackhawks have given Hossa a 12-year deal worth about $59.3 million which averages out to $5.2 per season for the first eight years and then drops down to $3.5 million for the last four.
The Blackhawks had a great season and I think that they have a real chance to not only ...
HOSSA ONLY GETS 12 YEAR DEAL
Mondesi's House —
30-year-old Benedict Hossa, professional winger-for-hire, just inked a 12-year, $62.8 million deal with the Chicago Blackhawks. If he would've actually scored a goal in the 2009 Finals, there's talk that the Hawks would have considered a 24-year deal. Yes, there's nothing like a back-to-back ...
NHL Free Agency Drama
NHL Digest —
As the 2009 NHL Entry Draft passed us by, we started setting out minds on the “Frenzy” that is the Free Agency season for the National Hockey League.
There was much anticipation and many rumors that accompanied the days and hours leading up to the opening of the market. A couple of teams pulled no punches going after each and every available body that would fill a need on their team.
Leading up to free agency many teams seemed very inactive, but if your team was silent (Devils) there was always enough Dany Heatley news to go around!
Habs Go Hog-Wild
Bob Gainey ...
Blackhawk Down – Kane’s Antics are the Latest Development in Horrid Chicago Offseason
The Biz of Hockey :: The Business of Sports Network —
... shortly after the July 1st free agency period began, signing the highflying sniper to a twelve-year contract worth 62.8 million dollars. Shortly after signing the most coveted free agent of 2009, the Blackhawks’ offseason fortunes took a turn for the worse. ...
