Brendan Morrison (F) - Anaheim Ducks ----> Dallas Stars
Waivers
Tells us nothing really. I like Brendan as a player, since his time during the lockout in Linkoping. Hopefully he can revive his career in the Lone Star State
Olli Jokinen (F), 3rd round pick - Phoenix Coyotes -----> Calgary Flames
Matthew Lombardi (F), Brandon Prust (F), 1st round pick - Calgary Flames ---->Phoenix Coyotes
Jokinen is the biggest name so far to move. With over 800 games in the NHL and not one post-season game, Olli Jokinen will be hungry when the puck drops in the playoffs. Some say he made the Coyotes a worse team, some say he was a cancer. Some will miss him. One thing's for sure. He will be one happy man. But now, Calgary needs to get rid of someone, due to the salary cap.
Steve Montador (D) Anaheim Ducks -----> Boston Bruins
Petteri Nokelainen (F) Boston Bruins -----> Anaheim Ducks
Definetly a nice move for Nokelainen. A somewhat cheap move for the Ducks, since they acquired D-man Ryan Whitney yesterday.
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3/04/2009
Deals so far 1
Pascal Leclaire (g) + draft pick- Columbus Blue Jackets ----> Ottawa Senators
Pat Vermette (f) - Ottawa Senators ----> Columbus Blue Jackets
Good deal for the Sens. They, too, were in the need of a good goalie. In Leclaire, they have a great one. Pat Vermette will be useful for the Blue Jackets, for sure. But the big winner is the Sens.
Jordan Leopold (d) - Colorado Avalanche ----> Calgary Flames
Laurence Nycholat (d), Ryan Wilson (d), 2nd round draft pick -----> Colorado Avalanche
A bit of a gamble by the Flames, since Leopold will be an Unrestricted Free Agent this summer. Although, since this is his second spell at the Flames, Leopold might stay.
Mikael Tellqvist (g) Phoenix Coyotes ----> Buffalo Sabres
2nd round draft pick ------> Phoenix Coyotes
A cheap move for an under-rated keeper. Tellqvist will get his chance, thanks to the injuries on Ryan Miller. This is his big chance of making it. He will.
Pat Vermette (f) - Ottawa Senators ----> Columbus Blue Jackets
Good deal for the Sens. They, too, were in the need of a good goalie. In Leclaire, they have a great one. Pat Vermette will be useful for the Blue Jackets, for sure. But the big winner is the Sens.
Jordan Leopold (d) - Colorado Avalanche ----> Calgary Flames
Laurence Nycholat (d), Ryan Wilson (d), 2nd round draft pick -----> Colorado Avalanche
A bit of a gamble by the Flames, since Leopold will be an Unrestricted Free Agent this summer. Although, since this is his second spell at the Flames, Leopold might stay.
Mikael Tellqvist (g) Phoenix Coyotes ----> Buffalo Sabres
2nd round draft pick ------> Phoenix Coyotes
A cheap move for an under-rated keeper. Tellqvist will get his chance, thanks to the injuries on Ryan Miller. This is his big chance of making it. He will.
7/05/2008
The Sharks get their man
Told you so, didn't I? Yesterday I wrote that I didn't think the Sharks were done signing D men. And what happened over night (for us in Sweden)?
For the "cheap" price of their 2009 first round Draft Pick, 2010 fourth round Draft Pick, Matt Carlie (D) and Ty Wishart (D) they got their man, Dan Boyle, from the Bolts. Together with Boyle comes Brad Lukovich. Nice move by the Sharks, although Boyle is on a five year, $40 million contract. This takes up a lot of their cap, but they get a very good D man. Are they done now? Signing D men perhaps.
Short one today, going to Gothenburg in fifteen minutes. Springsteen!
I'll be back tomorrow
For the "cheap" price of their 2009 first round Draft Pick, 2010 fourth round Draft Pick, Matt Carlie (D) and Ty Wishart (D) they got their man, Dan Boyle, from the Bolts. Together with Boyle comes Brad Lukovich. Nice move by the Sharks, although Boyle is on a five year, $40 million contract. This takes up a lot of their cap, but they get a very good D man. Are they done now? Signing D men perhaps.
Short one today, going to Gothenburg in fifteen minutes. Springsteen!
I'll be back tomorrow
7/04/2008
Some big-name moves!
First of all:
Markus Naslund, 34, has signed for the New York Rangers. The contract is for two years and all in all it is worth $8million. Naslund stated that the Rangers was his first choice and hopefully we'll see him get some points in. He had "only" 55 points (25 + 30) in 82 games during the 07-08 season. This also means that Jaromir Jagr will not be playing for the Rangers next season. We will probably find him in Russia and in the new KHL. We'll see...
One more player has signed for the Blueshirts. And yes, it's a new D man! Having sent both Tyutin and Backman to Columbus, it wasn't a big secret that the Rangers needed a new defenseman. Dmitri Kalinin, 27, joins the club from Buffalo Sabres. He is a defensive D man which will suit the Rangers just fine.
Both Naslund and Kalinin was Unrestricted Free Agents.
Miroslav Satan (former New York Islanders) has signed for the Penguins on a one year deal. It's not a bad deal at all. The Pens needs the firepower, although Satan has dipped is points over the last season (41 pts in 80 matches). The Pens has also signed Ruslan Fedotenko on a one year deal.
Rob Blake has left the Kings and signed for San José Sharks on a one year deal. This is an attempt to fill the void after short-termer Brian Campbell moved to Chicago. Blake is a good player but he is not a fast-moving skater. I think the Sharks aren't done signing D men.
Other players who moved yesterday was:
David Hale (D), two years - Phoenix Coyotes
George Laraque (F), three years - Montreal Canadiens
Antti Miettinen (F), three years - Minnesota Wild
Daniel Tjarnqvist (D), one year - Colorado Avalanche
Also worth noticing is that Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury to a seven-year contract worth $35 million.
That was just day 3 of the Free Agency and it feels more crazy than ever. Amazing.
Markus Naslund, 34, has signed for the New York Rangers. The contract is for two years and all in all it is worth $8million. Naslund stated that the Rangers was his first choice and hopefully we'll see him get some points in. He had "only" 55 points (25 + 30) in 82 games during the 07-08 season. This also means that Jaromir Jagr will not be playing for the Rangers next season. We will probably find him in Russia and in the new KHL. We'll see...
One more player has signed for the Blueshirts. And yes, it's a new D man! Having sent both Tyutin and Backman to Columbus, it wasn't a big secret that the Rangers needed a new defenseman. Dmitri Kalinin, 27, joins the club from Buffalo Sabres. He is a defensive D man which will suit the Rangers just fine.
Both Naslund and Kalinin was Unrestricted Free Agents.
Miroslav Satan (former New York Islanders) has signed for the Penguins on a one year deal. It's not a bad deal at all. The Pens needs the firepower, although Satan has dipped is points over the last season (41 pts in 80 matches). The Pens has also signed Ruslan Fedotenko on a one year deal.
Rob Blake has left the Kings and signed for San José Sharks on a one year deal. This is an attempt to fill the void after short-termer Brian Campbell moved to Chicago. Blake is a good player but he is not a fast-moving skater. I think the Sharks aren't done signing D men.
Other players who moved yesterday was:
David Hale (D), two years - Phoenix Coyotes
George Laraque (F), three years - Montreal Canadiens
Antti Miettinen (F), three years - Minnesota Wild
Daniel Tjarnqvist (D), one year - Colorado Avalanche
Also worth noticing is that Pittsburgh Penguins re-signed goalkeeper Marc-Andre Fleury to a seven-year contract worth $35 million.
That was just day 3 of the Free Agency and it feels more crazy than ever. Amazing.
7/02/2008
And I'm back!
Hey!
The weird part is that I published this post on te day before yesterday. At least I thought I did. So there will be a "double" post in the same post, if you know what I mean
Call me mad if you want, but the NHL began yesterday. OK, it really began with the draft. But I've been in Thailand so I couldn't follow it that much. Now, however, is the time of wheelings and dealings. The thing we all now is that Mats Sundin won't be playing with the Maple Leafs this upcoming season. The latest rumour is that he's off to Vancouver. We'll see what happens.
These are just some of the deals done during the Free Agency period:
Niklas Hagman (F), four years - Toronto Maple Leafs
Jeff Finger (D), four years - Toronto Maple Leafs
Curtis Joseph (G), one year - Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto is building a new team, which means that this is not the last moves we will see during the summer. Worth mentioning is that Andrew Raycroft (G), Darcy Tucker (F) and Kyle Wellwood no longer are Toronto-players.
Andrew Raycroft (G), ? - Colorado Avalanche - Replacing Jose Theodore
Jose Theodore (G), ? - Washington Capitals - Replacing Cristobal Huet
Cristobal Huet (G), ? - Chicago Blackhawks - Will work "together" with Khabibulin. I'm interested in if this will succeed. None of those two would want to sit on the bench.
Ty Conklin (G), ? - Detroit Red Wings - Will be a backup for Osgood. Weird move by Holland. There were better guys out there.
Olaf Kolzig (G), one year - Tampa Bay Lightnings - Will bring stability to the goalkeeping side. Interesting.
Alex Auld (G),? - Ottawa Senators - This means one thing and one thing only. Ray Emery WILL be gone.
Brian Rolston (F), four years - New Jersey Devils
Bobby Holik (F), ? - New Jersey Devils. - Both these guys will be coming "home" and they will rock in "The Rock".
Brian Campbell (D), eight (!) years - Chicago Blackhawks - Long contract, hefty price ($7.1 million a year). But it's a great player and he's needed to bring calm to the young Chicago team.
Wade Redden (D), ? - New York Rangers - Fantastic signing by the Rangers. He will be great. Together with Campbell, Redden was the best D name in the Free Agency.
Jarkko Ruutu (F), ? - Ottawa Senators - Somewhat a weird move. But the signing has to do with the fact that Ruutus older brother is a scout for the Sens.
Sean Avery (F), four years - Dallas Stars -$3.87 million a year for four years. I don't know. Is it worth it? I mean, he's for sure a special player but that's a lot of money. I would not have signed him for more than two years, perhaps with an option of extension.
Darcy Tucker (F), one year - Colorado Avalanche - One weird move, for sure. The Avs need to get younger players into the team, not collecting old ones.
Kristian Huselius (F). four years - Columbus Blue Jackets - A good move for Huselius. He's coming to a new team. A team that has just lost one of its snipers (Zherdev) and this could mean playing in the first line. Worth mentioning is that he's linking up with former team-mate Fredrik Norrena, who he played together with during the lockout season in Linkopings HC (Sweden).
Four player trade:
Nikolai Zherdev and Dan Fritsche goes to New York Rangers in exchange for Christian Backman and Fedor Tyutin. A nice move for both teams. The Rangers needs to improve their offence while Columbus needs some strong defensmen. My guess is that the Rangers aren't even close to be done aquiring new guys for the 08-09 season.
Marian Hossa (F), one year - Detroit Red Wings.
Nice move by GM Ken Hollamd. But is Hossa as good as the hype tells us? Personally I think the Pens would have done just fine without him in this playoffs. But maybe Holland knows something we don't.....
Like I said, these are just some of the moves done. More will follow. Stay tuned!
The weird part is that I published this post on te day before yesterday. At least I thought I did. So there will be a "double" post in the same post, if you know what I mean
Call me mad if you want, but the NHL began yesterday. OK, it really began with the draft. But I've been in Thailand so I couldn't follow it that much. Now, however, is the time of wheelings and dealings. The thing we all now is that Mats Sundin won't be playing with the Maple Leafs this upcoming season. The latest rumour is that he's off to Vancouver. We'll see what happens.
These are just some of the deals done during the Free Agency period:
Niklas Hagman (F), four years - Toronto Maple Leafs
Jeff Finger (D), four years - Toronto Maple Leafs
Curtis Joseph (G), one year - Toronto Maple Leafs
Toronto is building a new team, which means that this is not the last moves we will see during the summer. Worth mentioning is that Andrew Raycroft (G), Darcy Tucker (F) and Kyle Wellwood no longer are Toronto-players.
Andrew Raycroft (G), ? - Colorado Avalanche - Replacing Jose Theodore
Jose Theodore (G), ? - Washington Capitals - Replacing Cristobal Huet
Cristobal Huet (G), ? - Chicago Blackhawks - Will work "together" with Khabibulin. I'm interested in if this will succeed. None of those two would want to sit on the bench.
Ty Conklin (G), ? - Detroit Red Wings - Will be a backup for Osgood. Weird move by Holland. There were better guys out there.
Olaf Kolzig (G), one year - Tampa Bay Lightnings - Will bring stability to the goalkeeping side. Interesting.
Alex Auld (G),? - Ottawa Senators - This means one thing and one thing only. Ray Emery WILL be gone.
Brian Rolston (F), four years - New Jersey Devils
Bobby Holik (F), ? - New Jersey Devils. - Both these guys will be coming "home" and they will rock in "The Rock".
Brian Campbell (D), eight (!) years - Chicago Blackhawks - Long contract, hefty price ($7.1 million a year). But it's a great player and he's needed to bring calm to the young Chicago team.
Wade Redden (D), ? - New York Rangers - Fantastic signing by the Rangers. He will be great. Together with Campbell, Redden was the best D name in the Free Agency.
Jarkko Ruutu (F), ? - Ottawa Senators - Somewhat a weird move. But the signing has to do with the fact that Ruutus older brother is a scout for the Sens.
Sean Avery (F), four years - Dallas Stars -$3.87 million a year for four years. I don't know. Is it worth it? I mean, he's for sure a special player but that's a lot of money. I would not have signed him for more than two years, perhaps with an option of extension.
Darcy Tucker (F), one year - Colorado Avalanche - One weird move, for sure. The Avs need to get younger players into the team, not collecting old ones.
Kristian Huselius (F). four years - Columbus Blue Jackets - A good move for Huselius. He's coming to a new team. A team that has just lost one of its snipers (Zherdev) and this could mean playing in the first line. Worth mentioning is that he's linking up with former team-mate Fredrik Norrena, who he played together with during the lockout season in Linkopings HC (Sweden).
Four player trade:
Nikolai Zherdev and Dan Fritsche goes to New York Rangers in exchange for Christian Backman and Fedor Tyutin. A nice move for both teams. The Rangers needs to improve their offence while Columbus needs some strong defensmen. My guess is that the Rangers aren't even close to be done aquiring new guys for the 08-09 season.
Marian Hossa (F), one year - Detroit Red Wings.
Nice move by GM Ken Hollamd. But is Hossa as good as the hype tells us? Personally I think the Pens would have done just fine without him in this playoffs. But maybe Holland knows something we don't.....
Like I said, these are just some of the moves done. More will follow. Stay tuned!
2/26/2008
The Deadline Magic part 2
Marian Hossa has left Georgia. He didn't leave the East, though. He has been traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins.
The complete deal looks like this:
To Atlanta:
F Angelo Esposito, F Colby Armstrong, F Eric Christensen + 1 round draft pick
To Pittsburgh:
F Marian Hossa & F Pascal Dupuis
Sure, this deal might take the Penguins to the playoffs. But it looks like this might be a "rental". Marian Hossa will become an Unrestricted Free Agent this summer and could just walk out on the Pens if he wants to. On the other hand, a line looking like this is hard to say no to:
Hossa - Malkin - Crosby
But if Hossa walks out in the summer, this deal has put the Penguins back alot. But for now, the Pens fans got to be celebrating.
For more info, go to www.nhl.com
The complete deal looks like this:
To Atlanta:
F Angelo Esposito, F Colby Armstrong, F Eric Christensen + 1 round draft pick
To Pittsburgh:
F Marian Hossa & F Pascal Dupuis
Sure, this deal might take the Penguins to the playoffs. But it looks like this might be a "rental". Marian Hossa will become an Unrestricted Free Agent this summer and could just walk out on the Pens if he wants to. On the other hand, a line looking like this is hard to say no to:
Hossa - Malkin - Crosby
But if Hossa walks out in the summer, this deal has put the Penguins back alot. But for now, the Pens fans got to be celebrating.
For more info, go to www.nhl.com
The Deadline Magic
Ok. Where to begin?
Brad Richards and Johan Holmqvist and the 2009 4th-Round Draft Pick to Dallas Stars. In exchange, Tampa get Jeff Halpern, Mike Smith & the amazing Finn, Jussi Jokinen.
That is one huge trade. The Bolts is active. They also sent Vaclav Prospal to Philadelphia in exchange for Alexandre Picard and a Conditional draft pick.
As stated yesterday, Colorado signed Peter Forsberg. Today, another Avalanche hero returns. Adam Foote has left the Blue Jackets for Denver (in exchange for a Conditional Draft Pick). Ruslan Salei has also packed his bags and is on his way to Denver. Karlis Skrastins is moving in the opposite direction.
The Canadiens let Cristobal Huet go to the Caps in exchange for their 2009 2nd-Round Draft Pick. Huets contract was running out and rumour has it that the Canadiens didn't want to re-sign him. The Caps has also aquired Sergei Fedorov from Columbus (in exchange for Ted Roth) and Matt Cooke from Vancouver (in exchange for British Columbia-born Matt Pettinger).
Buffalo Sabres defender Brian Campbell heads to Sharks in exchange for forward Steve Bernier. An emotional move for the former Sabres defender who really wanted to stay. At the same time he came to the conclusion that that's life and now he was a bit exited about playing for the Sharks.
With just about 15 mins left, Marian Hossa is still the biggest question mark. And will the Canadiens go for a goalkeeper or will youngster Price be their first choice for the remainder of the season?
More info later on, or tomorrow.
Brad Richards and Johan Holmqvist and the 2009 4th-Round Draft Pick to Dallas Stars. In exchange, Tampa get Jeff Halpern, Mike Smith & the amazing Finn, Jussi Jokinen.
That is one huge trade. The Bolts is active. They also sent Vaclav Prospal to Philadelphia in exchange for Alexandre Picard and a Conditional draft pick.
As stated yesterday, Colorado signed Peter Forsberg. Today, another Avalanche hero returns. Adam Foote has left the Blue Jackets for Denver (in exchange for a Conditional Draft Pick). Ruslan Salei has also packed his bags and is on his way to Denver. Karlis Skrastins is moving in the opposite direction.
The Canadiens let Cristobal Huet go to the Caps in exchange for their 2009 2nd-Round Draft Pick. Huets contract was running out and rumour has it that the Canadiens didn't want to re-sign him. The Caps has also aquired Sergei Fedorov from Columbus (in exchange for Ted Roth) and Matt Cooke from Vancouver (in exchange for British Columbia-born Matt Pettinger).
Buffalo Sabres defender Brian Campbell heads to Sharks in exchange for forward Steve Bernier. An emotional move for the former Sabres defender who really wanted to stay. At the same time he came to the conclusion that that's life and now he was a bit exited about playing for the Sharks.
With just about 15 mins left, Marian Hossa is still the biggest question mark. And will the Canadiens go for a goalkeeper or will youngster Price be their first choice for the remainder of the season?
More info later on, or tomorrow.
2/23/2008
Mats Sundin
It looks like Mats is moving.
Several sources (American, Canadian and Swedish) are sure of the fact. Mats Sundin will leave the Maple Leafs before the deadline. Not a big surprise. His contract is running out after this season and he hasn't won the Cup yet. He's getting old and this might be his last chance of winning.
It will be almost impossible for him to move within Canada, except if he moves to Vancouver. But that is not likely to happen. For me there are two major competitors for Mats Sundin. One is Detroit Red Wings and the other is San José Sharks. I don't know what Detroit would like to offer in exchange for the SuperSwede, but rumour has it that the many Swedes already playing for the Red Wings has done a bit of lobbying to get Sundin to Hockeytown.
San José has a few players to offer, amongst them Patrick Marleau. He is of interest for the Maple Leafs, a team going for the big re-build for the upcoming years.
As I've stated so many times before: We'll see what happens. I'm saying Detroit.
Several sources (American, Canadian and Swedish) are sure of the fact. Mats Sundin will leave the Maple Leafs before the deadline. Not a big surprise. His contract is running out after this season and he hasn't won the Cup yet. He's getting old and this might be his last chance of winning.
It will be almost impossible for him to move within Canada, except if he moves to Vancouver. But that is not likely to happen. For me there are two major competitors for Mats Sundin. One is Detroit Red Wings and the other is San José Sharks. I don't know what Detroit would like to offer in exchange for the SuperSwede, but rumour has it that the many Swedes already playing for the Red Wings has done a bit of lobbying to get Sundin to Hockeytown.
San José has a few players to offer, amongst them Patrick Marleau. He is of interest for the Maple Leafs, a team going for the big re-build for the upcoming years.
As I've stated so many times before: We'll see what happens. I'm saying Detroit.
2/13/2008
The royal opening
We're off!
Given the fact that this is the first time for me, writing a blog, there might be a few changes later on. At first, this will be a bilingual blog. Most entries will be written in English but there might be some Swedish involved in some of the entries. We'll see where this will end up.
The title of the blog doesn't really keep much to the imagination. So, here I will post my views on ice hockey, football (soccer) and a few other sports. Sometimes, there might be something about the NBA and the NFL. But most of this will be about ice hockey and football.
The trade deadline in the NHL is coming up. We might see some big name moves. Ray Emery of the Ottawa Senators might leave the Canadian capital. Rumour has it that he has become some sort of a cancer in the Senators locker room. He has anger managment issues and that speaks for a move, looking at it as a Senator manager. Looking at it with another pair of eyes, I wonder if there is an organisation, willing to pursue a keeper like that. The Thrashers' Marian Hossa is becoming an Unrestricted Free Agent and things might happen in Georgia. If he is leaving, I think he might end up either up the east coast and on Manhattan (perhaps in exchange for Jaromir Jagr?) or he might end up going Wild? Pairing him up with his Slovakia fellow Marian Gaborik would make the Wild fans go nuts, for sure.
I will write some more later. Now it is time for lunch
Given the fact that this is the first time for me, writing a blog, there might be a few changes later on. At first, this will be a bilingual blog. Most entries will be written in English but there might be some Swedish involved in some of the entries. We'll see where this will end up.
The title of the blog doesn't really keep much to the imagination. So, here I will post my views on ice hockey, football (soccer) and a few other sports. Sometimes, there might be something about the NBA and the NFL. But most of this will be about ice hockey and football.
The trade deadline in the NHL is coming up. We might see some big name moves. Ray Emery of the Ottawa Senators might leave the Canadian capital. Rumour has it that he has become some sort of a cancer in the Senators locker room. He has anger managment issues and that speaks for a move, looking at it as a Senator manager. Looking at it with another pair of eyes, I wonder if there is an organisation, willing to pursue a keeper like that. The Thrashers' Marian Hossa is becoming an Unrestricted Free Agent and things might happen in Georgia. If he is leaving, I think he might end up either up the east coast and on Manhattan (perhaps in exchange for Jaromir Jagr?) or he might end up going Wild? Pairing him up with his Slovakia fellow Marian Gaborik would make the Wild fans go nuts, for sure.
I will write some more later. Now it is time for lunch
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