Hainsey To Thrashers

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Ron Hainsey Scoring For Thrashers Next Season
Published 7/2/2008 by Danny Phillips at Sports Page Atlanta
Columbus Blue Jackets free agent defenseman, Ron Hainsey, has signed a five year, $22.5 million contract with the Thrashers today. Blueland Blog is reporting that this move could truly help an anemic scoring tradition from the defense in years past. Hainsey had 8 goals last year and 9 the year before. Our franchise record for goals in a season by a defenseman is 10. With Hainsey going from the defensively tight West to the more free-flowing East he could break that mark if he continues to play as well as he did in Columbus. Hainsey played on ...

The Deadbeat Club: 10 least desirable NHL cities for free agents
Published 7/8/2008 by Greg Wyshynski at Puck Daddy
... a good, long look down the list of the NHL's highest-scoring defenseman last season. Scan down past names like Coburn and Wideman and Seabrook. Keep going past Spacek and Keith, until you end up on this name: Ron Hainsey, then of the Columbus Blue Jackets. Despite being the team's primary offensive defenseman, Hainsey had 32 points last season, which is one point better than such explosive players as Paul Ranger and Randy Jones. Despite that, Hainsey is going to earn $4.5 million every season until 2013. Because no one else wanted to ...