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Martin Havlat Believes in Karma
Gospel of Hockey —
... and the players decided to let it slide. So why is the story coming out now? To be honest I'm not sure. Apparently Allan Walsh tweeted about the qualifying offers not being sent shortly after the story appeared on TSN. If I had a guess, it would be that Allan Walsh is in fact TSN's source and that, at least his client, may want to test the UFA waters but isn't sure how to go about doing it. If the player agreed verbally that he considered himself to have received a qualifying offer he may not be sure of his status. ...
Blackhawks likely to get away with spurious qualifying offers because NHL, NHLPA received paperwork
Snapshots —
... in attempting to mail qualifying offers to five restricted free agents gave way to Saturday's speculation and commentary, the Globe and Mail's James Mirtle reports that Aaron Johnson's agent stated that he hadn't received the Hawks ' offer as of early on July 4th...And then his Twitter posts about the subject disappeared. Mirtle pointed out Tom Bejamin's article suggesting the obvious... ...
Sunday Links
St. Louis Game Time —
Happy 5th of July!...doesn't have quite the same ring does it?
Blues News:
We haven't signed anybody new and I don't see any new analysis concerning Ty Conklin. But I bet I know of a cowboy-hatted Blues fan that'll sponsor this guy's Hockey Reference page.
NHL News:
Dale Tallon didn't send out those Qualifying Offers illegally...it was the ONE ARMED MAN! Read about it at TSN, From the Rink, and Second Indian.
Ryan Smyth goes from getting to mentor Matt Duchene to ...
Empty Netter Assists - 7-5-09
Empty Netters —
... -The agent for restricted free agent Blackhawks defenseman Aaron Johnson called Chicago's snafu with several qualifying offers a "debacle." ...
Qualifying Offers and Dany Heatley
mc79hockey.com —
... worse to the general public than to those more familiar with league operations, someone is trying to embarrass Dale Tallon by letting this leak out. What are the possible scenarios and motivations for that to happen? If I was betting on Darren Dreger’s source for this story, I would put a lot of money on Allan Walsh, who is both angry with the Blackhawks and has a client affected by this. As we know from Mirtle’s site, he also happened to be twittering about the issue as soon as it came to light . My thinking tends to be that any agent who has something like happen to one of ...
Aaron Johnson Files For Arbitration
Gospel of Hockey —
... . Furthermore, it was Johnson's agent, Allan Walsh, that publicly commented on Chicago's improper tendering of qualifying offers. I don't know what effect Johnson's decision to file for arbitration might have on the investigation but it seems that he and his agent expect him to remain a restricted free agent. It will be interesting to see what happens if the situation with Chicago's free agents is not decided by the time Johnson has his arbitration hearing scheduled. ...
God Bless Kris Versteeg
Gospel of Hockey —
... I had thought that if there would be one player holding on for dear life that it would surely be Aaron Johnson given his agent's earlier comments. In hindsight Versteeg probably makes the most sense as he (and Cam Barker who signed a three year deal with the Blackhawks) has the most to gain by becoming an unrestricted free agent. In some ways, Dale Tallon is now in a very difficult situation. It's unlikely that he'll be able to sign Versteeg and keep him on the Blackhawks. At the same time, if he doesn't sign him, Versteeg is gone for no return. It's probably in ...
Flames Game Day: Via Chicago
Matchsticks and Gasoline —
... at some point.
With Curtis McElhinney's first game in the books, for better or worse, Miikka Kiprusoff is the probable starter. Last year, Kiprusoff's numbers in 5 games at Chicago were 20G/134SA, .851 SV%. Hmm.
The Blackhawks had one of those summers. I might miss something, but by my tally they had;
a messy split with a key member of the team's rebirth;
a RFA paperwork fiasco that might cause cap headaches down the line;
a change in the front office, with ...
Twitter for Dummies: Hockey Agent Edition
Hockey From the Cheap Seats —
... Secondly, this isn’t the first time that Walsh and his comments on Twitter have been discussed. During the Blackhawks Qualifying Offer debacle, Walsh did what he could to fan the flames for his clients—only to delete the tweets hours afterwards. It’s like saying, “You completely screwed up and you owe me a huge raise,” to your boss; then the next morning throwing out a “just kidding.” That wouldn’t’ work an any of our lives; why does he think it will work in his? Too little, too late. ...
