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09-04-2009, 09:43 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Mississauga
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Re: Around the League
http://www.nypost.com/seven/09042009...sky_188078.htm
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RANGERS SQUEEZE DUBINSKY
By LARRY BROOKS
First, a correction: Brandon Dubinsky's qualifying offer for the upcoming season is not $698,500 as originally reported here and subsequently repeated by all other news outlets.
The qualifier, as per Rangers' assistant GM Cam Hope, is a two-way offer of $522,500/$60,000, though the minor league number is essentially meaningless given that Dubinsky would have to pass through waivers in order to get to the AHL.
That $522,500, however, appears to be the Blueshirts' standing one-year offer to the 23-year-old unsigned Group II free agent one week before players are due to report to training camp.
The Rangers, who for the first time in memory are exercising all the systemic leverage they own under the CBA against a significant young player who is entirely without leverage, also have multi-year offers on the table ranging from two-to-five years.
Dubinsky, who will be eligible for salary arbitration next summer, would surely be sacrificing money on the back end of a multi-year deal should he choose to go that route, even on a two-year contract. The question, though, is whether the additional money for this season would make it a worthwhile exchange.
"We've had a number of positive and amicable discussions with the Rangers and we'll continue to work at it," Kurt Overhardt, Dubinsky's agent, told The Post yesterday. "Neither Brandon nor I have any interest in attempting to negotiate this through the newspaper, so we'll keep the conversations private.
"I know that Brandon is extremely enthusiastic about the upcoming season with Torts [head coach John Tortorella]. We all have every expectation that this will be done before camp."
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Wow! the NYR sure take care of their own! A defensive minded player with 42 pts playing behind Gomez and Drury in his 2nd full year gets an offer of $522,500.
Me thinks the NYR are trying to make room for something else.
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09-04-2009, 10:23 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 19,826
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Re: Around the League
Just for you Count.
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After a year in which they had their best regular season in recent memory and finished atop the Eastern Conference, the Boston Bruins are hanging on to the man who got them there.
On Friday, the team signed head coach Claude Julien to a multi-year contract extension. The winner of the Jack Adams Award last season, Julien helped direct a Boston team that finished with 116 points in 2008-09, a 22-point increase over the season prior and a 40-point improvement from 2006-07, the season before Julien took over as head coach.
"Claude has shown a tremendous propensity to get the maximum results out of our team," Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli told the Canadian Press. "To me, he's a guy who can connect, a roll up your sleeves type of guy who connects with his players. I think he commands the respect that a coach needs to get to be successful."
"It's important to feel the confidence of the people behind me - Mr. (Jeremy) Jacobs and the upper management," said Julien. "It means a lot to me."
Under Julien, the Bruins made the second round of the playoffs last season for the first time since 1999. In his two seasons behind the bench, Boston has compiled a record of 94-48-22.
Julien has also coached in the NHL with the Montreal Canadiens and the New Jersey Devils.
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