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[Titoschew]

So, Brooks Laich getting a dump truck full of money officially makes it silly season in the NHL. Let's track the rumors, innuendo (sexual and non), signings, etc here. It will be another Cup-less Canada Day holiday on Friday for those folks north of the border. Suck it.

[TheRealness]

I wouldn't mind seeing the Bruins take a run at Fleischman if he's reasonably priced. They've flirted with him in the past, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. He also had great chemistry on Krejci's wing during the Olympics.

I've also heard speculation the Bruins may kick the tires on the very solid, Jan Hejda. Not sure I buy either though, as the Bruins have zero pressure to do anything.

[PedroSpecialK]

I wouldn't mind seeing the Bruins take a run at Fleischman if he's reasonably priced. They've flirted with him in the past, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. He also had great chemistry on Krejci's wing during the Olympics.

Word is he "should" be healthy enough to play by the start of next year, but I don't know if Chiarelli's going to want to take a chance on a guy with a pulmonary embolism. In fact, this blog post by Adrian Dater insinuates that the Avs medical staff may not be clearing Fleischmann in order to keep his price down.

[SoxScout]

A Top UFA List: http://www.thefourth...ents/top30.html

TSN's Updating Signings List: http://www.tsn.ca/nh...ature/?id=25880

[Spaulding Smails]

Fleischmann, Vrbata or Kennedy would be good 3rd line pickups, I would love Gagne here but would pause at any term over 3 years.

[Kenny F'ing Powers]

I really like the idea of Ville Leino. He's solid two ways and he's only 27. Marshmont-Bergeron-Leino would be a stud defensive line that still has a fantastic ability to put the puck in the net.

[Spaulding Smails]

TSNBobMcKenzie Bob McKenzie

MIN puts defenceman Cam Barker on waivers.

What the hell happened to this guy?

[Curtis_Lesspanic]

Pascal Dupuis resigns for 2 years at 1.5 million per.

[Greg29fan]

Dupuis was going to be the UFA with the tenth highest goal total (17) in 10-11 if he hadn't resigned. I don't think that says much about the UFA class available.

[jsinger121]

TSNBobMcKenzie

Hearing Joni Pitkanen is close to re-signing multi-year deal in CAR - not done yet tho - but no real progress on Chad Larose and Erik Cole.

[jsinger121]

TSNBobMcKenzie

Pitkanen's deal with CAR is three years at $4.5M per.

[The Four Peters]

Wow I would have loved to see the B's get him for that deal. Too bad Carolina wrapped him up.

On to the Wiz!

[cshea]

Wow, nice job by Rutherford. I assumed he was going to get somewhere around $5-6 million on the open market.

[Spaulding Smails]

What a steal by the Canes, great value there.

[Jed Zeppelin]

Wow I would have loved to see the B's get him for that deal. Too bad Carolina wrapped him up.

On to the Wiz!

This is the guy I really want. Young, isn't afraid to hit someone or block shots and is a seriously dangerous PP player from what I saw of him in Montreal.

I just can't get at all excited about a 3 year deal for Kaberle, no matter how cheap it might be. I doubt he would settle for less than 3 years.

Edited by Jed Zeppelin, 28 June 2011 - 03:46 PM.

[TheRealness]

Word is he "should" be healthy enough to play by the start of next year, but I don't know if Chiarelli's going to want to take a chance on a guy with a pulmonary embolism. In fact, this blog post by Adrian Dater insinuates that the Avs medical staff may not be clearing Fleischmann in order to keep his price down.

I had to look up pulmonary embolism. Ouch, that sounds like it sucks. Damage can sometimes be permanent.

Well then.

[PedroSpecialK]

Fantastic value for the Canes there, both in salary and term. Pitkanen must really like it in NC, because he left a lot on the table IMO

[SoxScout]

Christian Ehrhoff's negotiating rights to NYI for a 4th round pick. /McKenzie‎

Edited by SoxScout, 28 June 2011 - 06:56 PM.

[cshea]

Beaten...

July 1 is going to suck this year.

Edited by cshea, 28 June 2011 - 06:56 PM.

[Jed Zeppelin]

@TSNBobMcKenzie Bob McKenzie
VAN trades Christian Ehrhoff's negotiating rights to NYI for a 4th round pick.
4 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

I is too slow.

Edited by Jed Zeppelin, 28 June 2011 - 07:02 PM.

[mabrowndog]

I had to look up pulmonary embolism. Ouch, that sounds like it sucks. Damage can sometimes be permanent.

Well then.

That's an understatement. This is what killed Harry Agganis at age 26.

[Titoschew]

Penguins offer Jagr a 1 yr deal. Answer coming Wednesday.

Somewhere, Krejci weeps softly.

[Jed Zeppelin]

Let me just say how happy I am that RMPS is the way it is and not the way other places are. HF is a decent resource for prospect info but everything else is just garbage. The FA threads over there just degenerate into Toronto fans talking about how Stamkos or Richards or whoever is definitely going to become a Leaf.

[Greg29fan]

Penguins offer Jagr a 1 yr deal. Answer coming Wednesday.

Somewhere, Krejci weeps softly.

I honestly have no idea what to think about this - Sea Dog, what do you think?

[PedroSpecialK]

According to Tony Marinaro, Max Talbot has rejected a 3 year, $3.9m ($1.3m AAV) offer from the Penguins.

[mabrowndog]

NYR to buy out Drury's contract

According to the New York Post, the buyout of team captain Chris Drury’s contract “will become official today."

Drury won’t file a medical exception, reported The Post. The move, due to a degenerative knee condition, would have blocked the Rangers’ buyout.

He will instead become a free agent after the Rangers make the buyout official. New York will be on the hook for a $3.7 million cap hit next season and a $1.6 million hit in 2012-13.

Why the shakeup? The Rangers are expected to make a run at top free agent Brad Richards. The price tag will likely be steep — as will the cap space needed to sign him.

Drury was sidelined for two months after undergoing knee surgery in February.

“This is something, honestly, that we have to look at as far as where does (Drury) fit now,” Tortorella said after the team’s playoff ouster. “We are going young. With older guys, those are conversations that we have to have as we continue here for the next few months.”

[PedroSpecialK]

Mother of god. Kopecky's contract with Florida finalized per Nick Kypreos:

RealKyper Nick Kypreos
Another #NHL jackpot winner in the state Florida. #Panthers who acquired Tomas Kopecky for a draft pick agrees to a 4 year/ 12M deal.

[The Four Peters]

Wait, 3 million AAV for Kopecky? What is going on?

That Pitkanen contract might be the outlier here.

[cshea]

Playoff Ryder has to be pretty pumped right now.

[PedroSpecialK]

Playoff Ryder has to be pretty pumped right now.

He's probably pretty relaxed, actually.

[cshea]

Kyper is now saying the Predators QO's might not be valid, making their RFA's unsrestricted. The notable RFA is Weber, obviously, but they had filed for arbitration with him so I don't know if he'd get affected by this.

[The Four Peters]

Kyper is now saying the Predators QO's might not be valid, making their RFA's unsrestricted. The notable RFA is Weber, obviously, but they had filed for arbitration with him so I don't know if he'd get affected by this.

How would they not be valid? Similar to Tallon when he was in Chicago with Versteeg and Sharp?

[The Four Peters]

Here's the actual tweet. Doesn't sound like Weber is in play.

@RealKyper Nick Kypreos Big #NHL news as some question #Predators missing qualifying offers on RFA's O'Reilly, Spaling, Halischuk and Kostitsyn. Stay tuned...

[Titoschew]

Kyper is now saying the Predators QO's might not be valid, making their RFA's unsrestricted. The notable RFA is Weber, obviously, but they had filed for arbitration with him so I don't know if he'd get affected by this.

Certainly doesn't make Barry Trotz happy.

[The Napkin]

Hmm. He kind of looks a little bit like McNugget Buddy...

[jsinger121]

TSNBobMcKenzie

Hearing Carolina has agreed to terms with Chad Larose on a two-year deal.

TSNBobMcKenzie

Larose will earn $1.5M next season and $1.9M the season after that for an AAV of $1.7M.

Edited by jsinger121, 29 June 2011 - 09:30 AM.

[jsinger121]

TSNBobMcKenzie

Nathan Gerbe's new deal with Buffalo is for three years with an AAV (cap hit) of $1.433M.

[PedroSpecialK]

Avs sign David Jones to a 1 year, $2.5m deal per Adrian Dater

Also per Habs Inside/Out, Roman Hamrlik's refused the Habs' 1 year offer, instead looking for a 2-3 year deal either in Montreal or elsewhere.

[jsinger121]

TSNBobMcKenzie

NHL statement on talk of NHL team(s) improperly filing qualifying offers to restricted free agents is as follows:

TSNBobMcKenzie

"We're not aware of any defects relating to Qualifying Offers tendered by NSH to certain of team's players as several media outlets reported

TSNBobMcKenzie

Those players, having timely received Qualifying Offers, will be Restricted Free Agents as of July 1, and both the players and the team...

TSNBobMcKenzie

...will be accorded the various rights and benefits of Restricted Free Agency as are set forth in CBA."

[mabrowndog]

Also per Habs Inside/Out, Roman Hamrlik's refused the Habs' 1 year offer, instead looking for a 2-3 year deal either in Montreal or elsewhere.

Loved this from Stubbs:

Fave Hamr story: asked for No. 4 he had in CAL. #Habs: "Call Mr. Béliveau. If he says it's OK, get a ladder & take down his number"

[jsinger121]

CanadiensMTL

#Habs have traded James Wisniewski to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Details. http://goha.bs/lXKxiB

Aportzline

#CBJ give up 7th round pick in 2012. Becomes a 5th round pick if they sign him.

Edited by jsinger121, 29 June 2011 - 01:59 PM.

[Haunted]

Um, wow? A 5th if he signs? Not bad at all. Apparently he and Montreal weren't seeing eye to eye on a contract?

[jsinger121]

TSNBobMcKenzie

As per @TSNRyanRishaug, Roloson signs in Tampa, one year, $3M.

[jsinger121]

KatieStrangNYI

Talks broke down between #Isles and Christian Ehrhoff; email sent out from #Isles end to other teams

[Dummy Hoy]

Christian Ehrhoff's negotiating rights to NYI for a 4th round pick. /McKenzie‎

A bunch of word that Ehrhoff told the Isle's to go fuck themselves. Ouch. a fourth rounder isn't that big of a deal, but still...

You think they may have figured out a way to find out what Ehrhoff was thinking before they made that deal.

[cshea]

Typical Isles. A 4th isn't much, but they needed to be prepared to back the truck up for him. Or make the pick conditional, like all the other teams do when acquiring rights.

[Spaulding Smails]

Swing and a miss by Snow, talks breaking down after less than 24 hours pretty much shows Ehrhoff had no intention of ever signing there.

[cshea]

Chiarelli's "Snow is a brilliant GM..." joke from this weekend is even more humorous now.

[Haunted]

Didn't Snow count against his own cap his first year as GM?

[jsinger121]

KatieStrangNYI

#Isles trade Christian Ehrhoff's rights to Buffalo in exchange for fourth-rounder, the original price for what he was acquired