*-> The Montreal Canadiens have sent out qualifying offers to 5 of their RFA's before their rights expire. The Habs have made offers to Maxim Lapierre, Tom Pyatt, Mathieu Carle and surprisingly the disgruntled Sergei Kostitsyn. The Montreal Canadiens have also qualified Carey Price. The most surprising thing is not the qualifying of Kostitsyn but the fact the Habs have not made an offer to Benoit Poulliot. This ether means 2 things, a deal is coming soon or they are close to resigning him to an actual contract.
*-> Woltek Wolski has resigned in Phoenix today. The Coyotes and the Polish forward have come to terms and Wolski has signed a 2 year deal worth R
7.6M$ overall. Great resigning for the Yotes. I've always been a huge fan of Woltek Wolski.
*-> The Boston Bruins have resigned youngster Johnny Boychuk to a 2 year deal worth 3.7.$ overall or 1.85$M per season.
*-> While on the topic of the Boston Bruins, the Bruins are indeed shopping goaltender Tim Thomas. The Boston management have told Thomas's agent Bill Zito that he can start calling teams and trying to gain interest for his client. This should be no surprise since the rumors have been out there since last season after being uprooted by Rask. Thomas's heavy freshly signed contract will be a stumbling block but some teams still have interest. The Tampa Bay Lightning have been consistently linked from the end of last season to Thomas. The San Jose Sharks are in need of a new starter as well. There have been recent reports of Washington also in the mix. Philly could be a new destination as well but I'm sure Chierelli would love to move Thomas out West. Iuf there's no takers out there they may have to pull and inter conference deal.
*-> Christoph Schubert has received no offer from the Thrashers yet but has received an offer from Adler Manheim of the DEL but its highly doubtful he'll leave North America till testing the waters July 1st.
4 comments:
Scoopz,
Agree completely with your assessment of the Pouliot situation...I cannot believe he's not in their plans, so I assume they must be close to terms on a contract.
There's an interesting media interview with Brian Murray on the NHL network. Interesting in part because he tries to dramatically tone down the speculation surrounding Spezza, but more for his comments early on where he begins to go off saying "there's so many people concerned about my job..." and then he stops himself. Not sure what that was going to be about.
Garriock looks like an agenda driven ass during the interview, always good to get my blood up...
Finally, I haven't seen your mock for the bottom half of the first yet - you need a better web master, the one you have is hammered half the time - but I must be getting draft fever.
I'm starting to think if the scoring forward they need is gone by 16 (there are 3 or 4 I like at that slot), they should consider moving down (perhaps Chicago would give the 24th pick and their second rounder) and taking a flier on McFarland. I think the risk/reward ratio would be worth it around there....
- Jalen
Scoopz,
One additional thought...(only one, I'm on my third glass of McCallan's)...
I'm convinced Murray's trying to do something with Cheechoo...I don't buy that he's being shopped, it defies logic that anyone would be willing to take him straight up.
Knowing he has to buy him out and a portion of the team's cap is committed to the buy out, I wonder if he's looking at some D options with over priced contracts.
For instance, if a player's making $5M/yr that is roughly $1M over priced, Murray could send Cheech the other way and be in the same position he would've been if he bought Cheech out and got the player for $4M/yr.
What do you think? Does that sound like Souray? or worse, Campbell?
- Jalen
Hmmm both interesting posts Jalen. I'm not too sure anymore about any of the Spezza talk because theres so much out there and it all makes so little sense from the Sens point of view to move him. I even read one article saying that Heatley opened the door for Spezza last summer and much of it is due to Cory Clouston's coaching style.
Not too sure what Murray was saying about his job but I guess many people have been questioning his decesion to possibly move Spezza as of late.
Don't get me started on Garrioch ether.
the Mock draft is now up finally, I have to retype it from scratch and reformat it because blogger.com apparently hates Microsoft Word. The Good news is my new webmaster loves his beer as well and when hes back from holidays the renovation will begin.
Very interesting point on Cheechoo and that brings me to my rumors for tomorrow. I've heard the Sens are deep in talks for Sheldon Souray so your theory could be 100% correct. Both teams would take care of the others problems. Ottawa might have to throw in a late pick or meddling prospect though. Josh Hennessey anyone?
Using Hennessy in a trade might be the most value we've ever gotten from Muckler's Havlat trade, Preissing's one productive season aside.
- Jalen
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