Columbus gives coach vote of confidence. Meaning he should put house on the market
Jackets GM gives Tortorella vote of confidence
Blue Jackets coach John Tortorella was given a vote of confidence by general manager Jarmo Kekalainen on Tuesday.www.espn.com
Calgary needs to waive Derek Ryan to allow them to continue to rotate him back and forth to the taxi squad still now that he is coming off LTIR. He cleared waivers at the beginning of the season and had played 10 NHL games before getting hurt and was going up and down from taxi squad to active roster (and back) to bank cap space prior to his injury. Once he clears waivers he will be going back on the taxi squad/active roster yo-yo. I suspect Calgary will have some other player end up on LTIR to solve their pending cap issue.Calgary placed Derek Ryan on waivers. He’s been on LTIR. If he does end up on the taxi squad, they’ll have to absorb a little over $2 million of his cap hit and they don’t have that available.
Pittsburgh placed Sidney Crosby on the Covid list.
“John, I mean Fredo, you’re my brother”The kiss of death
Gee, I wonder if.......... Eric Staal has stunk too. Just 3 goals, 5 assists and -11 for Buffalo. I'm sure he will be begging for a trade out of there before the deadline.
STOPGee, I wonder if.......
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Given how things were going in Anaheim I was a bit surprised that Sutter didn't end up with that job before Calgary had the chance to re-hire him. You know how it goes in Calgary though. There is no problem that "getting tougher" can't solve, right? Sutter's an old pro and I know he'll be an improvement over whatever the heck Geoff Ward was trying to do, but that organization has issues man.Calgary fired head coach Geoff Ward and replaced him with Darryl Sutter who signed a contract through the 2023-24 season. Ward replaced Bill Peters in November 2019. Sutter has been an advisor to the Anaheim Ducks since July 2019. He hasn’t coached since leaving the Kings after the 2016-17 season. He coached the Flames for 3 seasons from 2002-06, leading them to the 2004 Cup Finals.
Honestly ... if they keep hanging around the playoff line and feel they have a legit chance to beat Columbus to that last spot, they could be a player at the deadline. May as well. Their market and press never really bought the "rebuilding" phase they were supposed to be starting this season. If there's a serious but expensive target available at the deadline who fits their needs ... why not swing big?Not that Chicago is going to use it, but they have almost $23 million in 'above the cap' room they could deploy with all of the players they have on LTIR.
They’d be fools not to, as long as it doesn’t do too much harm to their prospect pool. They don’t have anyone else’s draft picks to play with, just their own, absent this year’s 3rd rounder they gave up in the Andrew Shaw deal.Honestly ... if they keep hanging around the playoff line and feel they have a legit chance to beat Columbus to that last spot, they could be a player at the deadline. May as well. Their market and press never really bought the "rebuilding" phase they were supposed to be starting this season. If there's a serious but expensive target available at the deadline who fits their needs ... why not swing big?