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Never considered the Rangers as a Pietrangelo destination, but man, adding him and Lafreniere to that team already stacked with a boatload of great, young players is kinda scary.
2019-20 Miscellaneous NHL/Hockey News Thread
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Punzil
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That draft class of 2003... Perry was only 22 when he won the Cup with the Ducks.
Pavelski was drafted that year too, 7th round, 205th overall.
The guy who co-hosts Spittin‘ Chiclets with vodka salesmen Ryan Whitney and Paul Bissonette says look for the Bruins to trade Torey Krug’s rights tomorrow, with the Avs, Panthers, Red Wings and Vegas among the suitors. He’s coming off a 4 year/$21 million contract.
Vegas is already cap-strapped, with 18 players under contract and just under $5 million available. Moving Fleury will help, but if The reports are true, they’ll eat up $5 million of the $7 million by re-signing Lehner. The Panthers, Avs and Wings are all below the floor right now but only have 12, 14 and 14 players under contract.
Vegas is already cap-strapped, with 18 players under contract and just under $5 million available. Moving Fleury will help, but if The reports are true, they’ll eat up $5 million of the $7 million by re-signing Lehner. The Panthers, Avs and Wings are all below the floor right now but only have 12, 14 and 14 players under contract.
Look man. If you want $9 million and a contract that will take you into your late 30s, the Rangers are always going find a way to accommodate you. And in the short term, it would be a ridiculously good fit. All that D needs is a veteran all-arounder and Pietrangelo is the best in the biz right now. Shed one of the two idiots (or both) they had in that 3rd pair and the Rangers might have one of the best D groups in the league all of a sudden.
Chris Stewart announced his retirement and was named a development coach by the Flyers.
The Flyers re-sign dman Robert Hagg to a 2 year/$3.2 million contract. He was coming off a 2 year/$2.3 million deal and would have been a RFA with arbitration rights. That could well be a comp for Fleury.
The Flyers re-sign dman Robert Hagg to a 2 year/$3.2 million contract. He was coming off a 2 year/$2.3 million deal and would have been a RFA with arbitration rights. That could well be a comp for Fleury.
Fleury and Foegele are the only RFAs on the roster. If they can get them signed for under $3 million AAV total, they’ll have done well.
The league turns to its 2 most experienced referees for tonight, Wes McCauley and Kelly Sutherland have the call. This is McCauley’s 8th straight trip to the finals, although he was injured and didn’t work last year. This is Sutherland’s 7th finals. They did not work together at all this season, in either the regular season or playoffs.
Fluery's total compensation ending up averaging around $1.7 million a season for his ELC when you include his bonuses. Figure a minimum offer of 10-15% above that. Foegele had a much lower bonus structure, not being a Top 10 overall pick and all, so his total annual compensation was more like an average of $750,000. I'd say you could probably get him inked to a million and change if you don't go nuts on term. So yeah ... around a total of $3 mil for the two of them isn't out of the question and would leave the Canes with around $4 million in Cap space with only a forward to add to get to a minimum roster.
I mean, Sutherland isn't calling anything that he doesn't absolutely have to call at this point, so that leaves the real work to McCauley. I'm less a fan of the guy that most of y'all, but I guess it's better than the alternatives. Charron, O'Rourke and Kozari all blow chunks.
It was Charron who called the “trip” on Benn in game 4 OT on Friday.
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No matter how you slice it, this coming "off-season" will be like no other and there are going to be a ton of players left out in the cold with no contract offer and likely a pile of veteran guys shown the door for good. Money is tight with little revenues coming in, the cap is tight with no increase next season, the uncertainty of when any team will be able to have a full building again will scare the lights out of just about everybody. You might even see a decent number of players willing to sign for the league minimum just to stay employed with hopes that things bounce back. It's tough to stop playing hockey and then just restart your career a year later...
Geordie Kinnear is back with the Checkers, this time as head coach. He was head coach in Springfield, a position he held since leaving the Checkers in 2016. He had been an assistant in Albany for 7 years, 4 when they were a Devils affiliate, the last 3 as the Canes affiliate, and moved to Charlotte in 2010.
OK ... in my humble opinion, the Lightning winning is good for hockey. Yes, they play a stout defensive game, but their identity is wrapped up in playing offensive hockey and ... you know ... scoring goals. Dallas is a traditional unit, built to limit damage first and then to see if maybe they can't scrounge enough offense to score a couple of goals. After all this time, I'm well and truly sick of that model. Yeah, it's easier and cheaper to operate that way, and the loser point thing rewards you for just being good enough to hang around in a lot of close games. But whatever ... I'm here to see goals, not white knuckle death matches. I'm here to see teams trying to win the game, not ones trying not to lose it. The fact that this league makes it so bloody hard for those teams that actually want to score to succeed is patently ridiculous, but expecting anything else from this dumb league is probably futile. So, good on Tampa. Maybe the brain dead tribe that runs the front offices in the NHL will actually start to copy something useful for once instead of obsessing over "playing heavy" and signing fossils who are past their sell by date so they can park their butts in front of the net (because they're too slow to do anything else), and all that other garbage that only leads to borderline unwatchable hockey.
Here's to 4 full lines of forwards who can skate and make plays and 3 full pairings of defensemen who can pass and shoot.
Here's to 4 full lines of forwards who can skate and make plays and 3 full pairings of defensemen who can pass and shoot.