- The Ryan Smyth to the Edmonton Oilers deal is done but instead of Gilbert Brule, the Oilers gave up Colin Fraser and a seventh-rounder in 2012.
- NHL.com has a list of the top players who are free agents based on the skills that they bring to a team.
- This is an article about Kevin Smith's hockey movie 'Hit Somebody' that is in development based on the Warren Zevon song of the same name.
- The Penguins did not make a qualifying offer to Tyler Kennedy and we can hear his fangirls from our living room screaming and crying. We have faith still.
- It seems that the trading between Tallon and Bowman hasn't stopped after the Draft ended. The Hawks traded the rights to Tomas Kopecky to the Panthers for a conditional pick.
- There's a report that Kevin Bieksa signed a five-year deal worth twenty-three million with the Canucks. With a NTC. Damn, we were hoping for some drama on July 1st.
- The Canucks have been very busy. They also re-signed Maxim Lapierre to a two-year two million dollar contract.
- Kirk Muller has finally left the Canadiens. He has been named the head coach of the Milwaukee Admirals, the farm team of the Nashville Predators.
- On Tuesday, the nominees to the Hockey Hall of Fame will be named.
- The Vancouver Canucks have chosen the Chicago Wolves to be their AHL team through the 2012-2013 season.
- The Philadelphia Flyers are still not done. They traded Darroll Powe to the Minnesota Wild for a third-rounder in 2013.
3 comments:
The City of Chicago is salivating for a Luongo farm team rehab (or being sent down). To taunt him on such a small stage would be priceless.
I'm going to call the Fathead people and see if they can make me one of Stan Bowman. I need to kiss it every night before I go to sleep.
Where's the drama? Everyone's getting qualifying offers! BOO!
@Jennifer - True dat re LeBoingBoing being dispatched to the dreaded Chicago for you guys's very special welcome n'at. You should take tons of photos of his google-eyed meathead if/when it happens.
As for your macking on Stan Bowman... Can I check the back of your ears for lobotomy scars?! Even if he makes your nipples hard (??? Pops is/was way hotter!) you have to consider what the Hawks are getting in RETURN, here. I want to be optimistic and believe that Bowman has put away his crack pipe for good. But deep down, I can't help feeling like he has just injected his team with this groundbreaking, newfangled cure for meh - a cure that will literally guarantee this team a brand new lease on life. Like oh I don't know - GLEEMONEX or something. Then, a year later, you're watching late night TV (or TV Guide channel) and you notice these persistent, pitchy commercials from The Law Offices of Cum, Fart & Cocktail regarding fatal and disturbing side-effects from said cure. Nausea. Vomiting. Memory loss. Dementia. Difficulty driving. Bladder prolapse. Sensitivity to sunlight and stick tape. Uncontrollable pucking.
I'm not feelin' it. Nope.
MG--I know, I know, you think I've lost my mind. While I meant it in a purely metaphorical sense* (see below note) I've learned that with B-man it pays to trust in his apparent madness. Of course this time last year I was LOSING IT especially regarding Niemi (which in some ways I blame on Doug Wilson's sneaky-deaky offer sheet to Hammer and some ways on Soupy's bloated bullshit contract) but wasn't I proven wrong by the stellar play of our very own Crawsome? Who, really, was more consistent than that Immensely huggable Finn? Not saying getting Nemo back and having them as one-two wouldn't make me reconsider my 'metaphorical' to the above. I'm gonna trust Stanny until he really mucks it up.
*Saw Stan at an Open Practice towards the end of the season as one of his peewees was playing the game before (and spent most of his time in the penalty box)...imagine my surprise at what a dashing figure he cuts. Dressed superbly. Gobsmacked was I.
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