sports.espn.go.com - 6/28/2009
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MONTREAL -- At the end of the day -- or two days, as is the case with the NHL's annual draft -- there might be a tendency to suggest that when all was said and done, all those rumors and all that speculation amounted to little more than a hill of pucks. Fair enough. Yet never in the league's ...
ducks.freedomblogging.com - 6/29/2009
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ducks.freedomblogging.com —
Before time separates us any further from his
relatively short but very eventful stint with the Ducks,...
it seems fitting to offer something of a tribute to Chris Pronger, the centerpiece in Friday’s blockbuster trade that sent the former Hart and ...
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Ducks won’t be the only ones missing Pronger
battleofcali.com - 6/29/2009
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battleofcali.com —
Captain Elbows is off to Prongerdelphia. Wow. So
amidst all the excitement of the most boring television...
ever in yesterday's entry draft, GM "Barstool" Murray made a huge splash by sending Chris Pronger to Philadelphia in what essentially looks ...
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Pronger No Longer: Captain Elbows gets traded for Loops ...
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Where Some Of The Teams Stand
KK Hockey —
... Dion Phaneuf $6.5 million, Robyn Regehr $3.5 million, Cory Sarich $3.7 million and Olli Jokinen $5.5 million. That’s more than $37 million for seven players, and if you figure Bouwmeester will be around Phaneuf numbers, then the Flames’ payroll jumps to about $43 million for about a third of their roster. For a team that had to play with a shortened lineup because of cap issues down the stretch last season, Sutter has some work to do to shed salary and keep things on the rails. more Filed in: ...
Monday Links
St. Louis Game Time —
... Gotta love grading the draft ... since you know exactly who is going to pan out and no one ever sucks/will break through. Sigh. [ESPN] ...
2009 NHL Draft Review/Free Agency Link Collossus
Lighthouse Hockey —
... in comments), believe it or not the NHL Draft included 29 other teams. What follows is a quick run-down with links to where the other teams stand, either in the draft aftermath, with free agency looming -- ...
Good draft recap
Habs Inside/Out —
By Scott Burnside and Pierre LeBrun at ESPN.com. This is what they wrote about the Canadiens: At one point Friday night, someone yelled down from the Bell Centre
seats, "Make a trade, Bob!" But Montreal GM Bob Gainey was quiet, even
though he has 10 unrestricted free agents to deal with and the prospect
of a significant turnover in his lineup. Rumors of a potential draft
weekend deal involving Vincent Lecavalier did not come to fruition. Once July 1 hits, Gainey will be a busy man, and among the names being bandied about is ...
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dailyhab-it.blogspot.com 6/28/2009 — The NHL draft has come and gone, the league's 29 other GMs have left town, and Bob Gainey has been left alone in his backyard holding a ball with no one to play with. Of course, just because Gainey wasn't able to swing the deal for a big first-line centre he was hoping for this weekend doesn't ...
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lighthousehockey.com 6/26/2009 —
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by Kathy Willens - AP
"You goin' to Toronto?"
"Wherever they pay me, baby."
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[ Updated after the jump ]... If you're often "on holiday" ...
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Still Pretending
canuckscorner.com 6/29/2009 — Eric Duhatscheck delivers up a post draft piece that begins with:
In the end, the NHL’s 2009 entry draft was more about smoke than fire, with only two prominent players changing teams and half-a-dozen others still on the board, awaiting word on their ...
2009 NHL Entry Draft's Top Steals —
Bleacher Report - NHL 6/28/2009
Every year players get passed over, and do much better then players picked ahead of them. In this draft like every other their were players that were drafted below where they should have gone. The following is a look back at this past draft, and ...
