*-> Defenseman Mike Mottau has decided to join the New York Islanders after signing a 1 year deal this afternoon with the club. Mottau said decision was mainly based on getting another chance to play in New York again as now he's played in all 3 New York area teams.
*-> The New York Islanders have also invited several players to attend and finish out the Isles training camp this up coming week. Manny Legace who played last season for the Carolina Hurricanes, Krys Kolanos who played with the Philly Flyers, Dean McAmmond the New Jersey Devils, and Anders Eriksson who split time between the New York Rangers and the Coyotes.
*-> While the Islanders continue to add to their squad and training camp the New York Rangers have trimmed their camp drastically in the last few days. As we all have heard by now Wade Redden was demoted to Hartford but he will have some comapany in the "A" with goaltender Chad Johnson, Evgeni Grachev, Dale Weise and Norweigen superstar Mats Zuccarello. Kris Newbury, Dane Byers, and Jeremy Williams will continue their pro tryouts down in Hartford while Alexei Semenov, Garnett Exelby, Brandon Manning have been released. Semenov is expected to offer continue to shop himself around the NHL before heading back to the KHL. Ruslan Fedotenko has surived the lastest round of cuts and it is believed the Rangers have been impressed with his performance so far.
*-> Yesterday the Montreal Canadiens cleared their training camp roster down to 31 players by sending 21 players down to the Hamilton Bulldogs and sending Louis Leblanc and Jarred Tinordi back to the the CHL. Tinordi will join the London Knights while Louis Leblanc will play for the home town Montreal Juniors. Russian prospect Alexander Avtsin avoided being sent to the CHL and will join Hamilton along with goalies Peter Delmas, Robert Mayer, defensmen Neil Petruic, Kyle Klubertanz, Brendon Nash, Fredric St. Denis, David Urquart, Sebastien Bisaillon, Marc-antoine Desnoyers, Mathieu Carle, forwards J.T Wyman, tough guy Jimmy Bonneau, Andrew Conboy, Danny Masse, Olivier Fortier, Ian Schultz, Gabriel Dumont, Andreas Enqvist, David Desharnais and Aaron Palushaj.
*-> The Edmonton Oilers has sent down Teemu Hartikainen, Johan Motin, Jake Taylor while waiving Greg Stewart and Brad Moran to enable them to send them to the OKC of the AHL. Jared Aulin was released from his pro tryout.
*-> The Toronto Maple Leafs have alos continued to clean house by sending down another 4 players to the Toronto Marlies today. Darryl Boyce, Joey Crabb, Alex Foster, and Ryan Hamilton.
*-> The Buffalo Sabres are in negotiations with prospect Zack Kassian to get a deal done before the season starts.
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