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No One Leaves the NHL
Considering it's the middle of July, there's a shocking amount of stuff going on around the NHL. Mark Hermann thinks Joe Queeneville should be the next coach of the Islanders. Queeneville isn't a bad idea, but given the Isles history, my money is on backup goalie Wade Dubielewicz, whose playing... Read more...
Published 3 days ago

Everyone Loves Krog
I officially don't understand the Russian leagues. Jason Krog, who just signed with the Canucks, supposedly had a seven figure offer from a Russian team. Krog took considerably less (he signed for $750,000) to play for the Canucks. But had the Russian team seen Krog's NHL stats? He had 21 goals... Read more...
Published 4 days ago

Nolan Leaves the Island
On the one hand, there's not much surprising about the Islanders' firing coach Ted Nolan. It was no secret Nolan and GM Garth Snow didn't get along very well. The surprising part is the timing of the firing. First, it was over two weeks into free agency and over a month after the end of the... Read more...
Published 5 days ago

Witt Touched; Golbez Ecstatic
I was originally going to write something sarcastic about the Islanders giving 33-year-old defenseman Brendan Witt a two-year, $6 million contract extension when he still has another year left on his deal. Committing to a player of that age before you need to seems unnecessarily risky to me.... Read more...
Published a week ago

Goalies Get Practice and Get Psyched
Goalie Chris Mason, who was traded to the Blues during the off-season, seems like a pretty cool guy. Mason is back in goaltending school, trying to sharpen his skills. I know guys work with trainers and coaches during the off-season, but Mason is driving from Red Deer to Calgary twice a week.... Read more...
Published a week ago

Reusse Not Wild About Wild
Patrick Reusse has a great column blasting Minnesota Wild GM Doug Risebrough for not doing enough to improve the team. Reusse attributes cheapness to a lot of Risebrough's moves, but with a salary floor, there's really not a huge advantage to cheaping out consistently. I'm not going to pretend to... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

The Great Wrong Buffalo
As I mentioned yesterday, it can be tough for certain teams to draw free agents. Add Buffalo to the list of teams that players avoid, as Bucky Gleason pointed out yesterday. Buffalo is close to Canada, which should make it relatively enticing for certain players, but the Sabres are notorious for... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Free Agents: No 404 For Us
Larry Brooks points out no one wants to play in Atlanta, Edmonton, or Long Island. I get the Isle burn, because they still have that crazy management reputation, even if it's much calmer out there, but I'm not sure why Atlanta is considered so awful. It's a nice city, from what I've seen of the... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Goodbye, Jags
Jaromir Jagr has left the Rangers and the NHL for Avangard Omsk. I don't know if it's the spin of Rangers' GM Glen Sather, but while the conventional wisdom held the Rangers weren't trying to get anything done with Jagr, Sather is saying Jagr never responded to Ranger offers to stay in New York.... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Boyle: 'Even Though I'm Not a Stay-at-Home Defenseman, I Kind of Want to Stay at Home. In Tampa...'
More and more, it sounds like the Lightning really are about to trade Dan Boyle. Erik Eriendsson is the latest to say he thinks the Lightning will try to move Boyle, assuming Boyle waives his no-trade clause. Eriendsson reminds us Boyle is married to a Tampa local, they're expecting a child, and... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

No Agent is Truly Free
OK. So I'm so overwhelmed with free-agent signings and trades that I really can't even process anything. I just don't know where to begin, so I'm going to start with the signings that seems downright crazy to me. Let's start in Detroit. Marian Hossa for one year in Detroit at just $7.45 million?... Read more...
Published 2 weeks ago

Lightning Strikes Twice in the Same Place
It was just about two years ago that the Lightning signed Brad Richards to a five-year, $39 million contract, on the strength of his performance in Tampa's 2004 Stanley Cup run. Richards, while talented and versatile, doesn't have great offensive numbers, though (he never had a 30-goal NHL... Read more...
Published 3 weeks ago