Gainey plays cool salary-cap game

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 Gainey plays cool salary-cap game
Which brings us back to Gainey. The Canadiens' GM already has all his players under contract for the 2008-09 season and still has roughly $7 million in cap space in case Mats Sundin decides to come to Montreal as a free agent or a big-name player becomes available during the season on the trade market. If Sundin doesn't come, defenceman Andrei Markov will be the Canadiens' highest-paid player ... [link]

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Waiting for Sundin
Published 7/21/2008 by James Mirtle (noreply@blogger.com) at james mirtle
[image] Tragicomedy's probably a good name for this one. Fans in Vancouver are either pulling their hair or crying their eyes out . In Toronto, it's a real mixed bag of emotion , while the Habs are rather Zen about the whole thing. Everywhere else, there are chuckles all around. I haven't covered the Mats Sundin saga at all this summer because there honestly hasn't been a whole lot to say. On July 1, he was the best free agent available, and any team he signs with is going to benefit considerably, but at this point, we're just reading tea leaves. And they're getting mouldy. Three weeks ago, I would have guessed Sundin's most likely course of action would be to return to the Maple Leafs or retire — but ...

Gaga for Gainey
Published 30 days ago by noreply@blogger.com (Topham) at Lions in Winter: Montreal Canadiens (Habs) News and Commentary
Having recently read Richard Dawkins' latest foray, The God Delusion, I find myself being especially attuned to the ring of fundamentalism in the air at the moment. Whether it be the atheist fundamentalism of Professor Dawkins, the religious fundamentalism that he wrote about, or any other type passing my way. ...

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