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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. |
Capitals Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
The picture is clearing up.
There's no question now that—barring a surprise last-second deal—the Caps are going to start the season with Semyon Varlamov and Michal Neuvirth in goal. And that, simply put, is a huge gamble.
Are they good enough to play (or start) in the NHL? You bet. Are they ready to lead what might be the NHL's best team all the way? Who knows?
Varlamov missed a few months last year because of injuries. He's also been hurt before. The big question is if he can last an entire season while playing the way a starter must perform.
Neuvirth, like Varlamov, has shown he can play at this level. But can he also last the full season without injuries or slumps? |
Kovalchuk believed weighing KHL in Devils contract impasse (SportingNews.com)
Ilya Kovalchuk's contract impasse now has an expiration time. Unless Kovalchuk's handlers and the New Jersey Devils can cut a deal that passes NHL scrutiny by the weekend, Kovalchuk might decide to play in Russia, according to Dmitry Chesnokov of Yahoo! Sports. Talks continue between the Devils and Kovalchuk's agents, trying to reach a contract that will replace the one the NHL rejected earlier this month and, apparently, a framework league officials scotched earlier this week. |
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. |
NHL rolls out array of network coverage for 2010-11 (SportingNews.com)
Get ready for all the hockey your eyeballs can handle on North American television outlets, thanks to release of the 2010-11 NHL television schedule. Regular-season games begin on Oct. 7 live from Helsinki, Finland, and end with the hoisting of the Stanley Cup in mid-June. The largest dose will be on Canadian national TV, including the 58th season of Hockey Night in Canada on CBC. Versus, prime cable home of the NHL in the U.S., will show 78 games, an increase of 13 over last season. |
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. |
Vancouver Canucks' injuries dampen Kevin Bieksa trade possibility (SportingNews.com)
Injuries to defenseman Sami Salo and winger Alex Burrows could allow the Vancouver Canucks to retain defenseman Kevin Bieksa, who spent the summer afloat in trade rumors. Reports suggest the team might even be able to afford unrestricted free agent Willie Mitchell, although it's more likely he will head elsewhere. Salo is recovering from a ruptured Achilles tendon. Burrows is in rehab after shoulder surgery. Neither player will be ready for the season; both are expected to be placed on the long-term injured list. |
Predators reward rising scorer Patric Hornqvist with three-year deal (SportingNews.com)
Patric Hornqvist is hockey's version of the NFL's Mr. Irrelevant -- the last player chosen in his draft class. Little is expected of such players. Certainly nothing worth a three-year, $9.25 million contract after two NHL seasons. Yet on Tuesday the Nashville Predators rewarded Hornqvist, the 270th and final pick of the 2005 draft, with a whopper of a deal. Established, albeit fading, stars will work next season for less than Hornqvist. Few of them have come as far as this 23-year-old winger from Sweden, who last season emerged as a scoring star for a... |
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