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Sporting News NHL preview schedule (SportingNews.com)
Notice a chill in the air? September arrives and bring the return of the National Hockey League -- on the ice, not in boardrooms, conventional halls or hearing chambers. Feel free to cheer. Sporting News notes the change in season with its 2010-11 Hockey yearbook, which previews the marathon to next June's crowning of a new Stanley Cup winner. To mark the occasion, SN provides online looks at all 30 teams, leading up to the season's start -- which again this year is in Europe. |
Fredrik Modin said to have deal with Atlanta Thrashers (SportingNews.com)
Left winger Fredrik Modin is headed to the Atlanta Thrashers, according to the Swedish website Aftonbladet. It is believed he has signed a one-year contract. Financial terms were not available. Modin, 35, finished last season with the Los Angeles Kings, who acquired him on March 3 from the Columbus Blue Jackets. He appeared in 44 games last season, finished with five goals and six assists. Neither the Thrashers nor the Atlanta Journal-Constitution confirmed the deal. |
Kings Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
Last season, even though the Kings made the playoffs for the first time in eight years, their clear weakness was 5-on-5 scoring, and some of that could be traced to the lack of scoring depth on the wings. Could the same problem affect the Kings in 2010-11? Alexei Ponikarovsky, signed in July, is a reasonable facsimile of lost free agent Alexander Frolov, who signed with the New York Rangers, but the Kings essentially have the same problem they did 12 months ago: the lack of a consistent scorer on the left side on the second line. Entering training camp last year, the Kings thought they had the answer in Teddy Purcell, but Purcell scored only three goals in 41 games with the Kings before he was dealt to Tampa Bay at the trade deadline. The Kings tried a handful of... |
Sabres give F Matt Ellis one-year, two-way deal (SportingNews.com)
Matt Ellis is the kind of forward Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff loves -- gritty, physical and a good locker-room presence. Critics would say Ellis is the perfect Ruff player because he's also a fourth-line winger who provides little offense. Fair or not, Ellis signed a one-year deal with the Sabres on Tuesday, his 29th birthday. The Sabres didn't disclose financial terms, but authoritative Capgeek.com reports the pact is for $625,000 at the NHL level and $105,000 if he slips to the AHL. |
Free agent Willie Mitchell signs with Kings (SportingNews.com)
Defenseman Willie Mitchell, perhaps the top remaining unrestricted free agent not named Ilya Kovalchuk on the market, signed a two-year, $7 million contract with the Los Angeles Kings on Wednesday. Mitchell, 33, had made a free-agent tour over the past week and a half, visiting the Kings, San Jose Sharks and Washington Capitals while retaining interest in the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he has played the past four seasons. Mitchell appears fully recovered from a season-ending concussion in mid-January. |
Steve Downie gets two-year deal with Tampa Bay Lightning (SportingNews.com)
Steve Downie's rise as an NHL player continued Wednesday as the Tampa Bay Lightning announced they signed the restricted free-agent winger to a two-year, $3.7 million deal. Not bad for a guy who early in his career was criticized for stupid penalties, foolish fights and a 20-game suspension. Downie, 23, showed maturity to go with his skill and toughness last season, his first with the Lightning, and finished with 22 goals, 24 assists, a team-best plus-14 and a 19.0 shooting percentage that was tied for fourth in the NHL. |
Timing of Fehr appointment curious: Marek (CBC.ca)
According to reports, the longtime head of the baseball players' union, Donald Fehr, has agreed to accept the position as new executive director of the NHL Players' Association. The timing is interesting. |
Hockey Night in Canada schedule set (CBC.ca)
The upcoming NHL season will be a busy one on Hockey Night in Canada — the 2010-11 edition features the Winter Classic and Heritage Classic outdoor games, all-star weekend in Raleigh, N.C., and the annual Hockey Day in Canada tripleheader. |
Cristobal Huet could be heading to Europe (SportingNews.com)
Cristobal Huet, who shared the starting goaltender job for much of Chicago’s run to their first Stanley Cup win since 1961, has signed a one-year deal to play with Fribourg-Gotteron of the Swiss League, according to Canadian media outlet RDS. The report comes on the heels of a Chicago Tribune story in which Huet’s agent, Stephen Bartlett, was quoted as saying “nothing is 100 percent yet” while admitting a deal could happen soon. “We’ve had discussions with (Gotteron), but nothing is finalized and there are a lot of hoops to go through and approvals that... |
Devils, Kovalchuk camp continue contract talks (SportingNews.com)
Looking for the latest on the New Jersey Devils' talks with Ilya Kovalchuk on a revised contract? About the best you'll get is that talks are continuing and GM Lou Lamoriello isn't talking about them. So we learn from Tom Gulitti of the Bergen Record. Doing his footwork as a Devils beat writer, Gulitti posited the appropriate questions for Lamoriello. Gulitti frames the conversation thusly: “Everything is status quo,” Lamoriello said. Does that mean he is still trying to re-sign Kovalchuk? |
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