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A Seemingly Quiet Offseason Awaits the New Jersey Devils
Tomorrow at noon marks the official opening of free agency. Teams can offer contracts to unrestricted free agents, who will undoubtedly go out and sign them. With a market that isn't exactly filled with top class players, those "good but not great" players and also-rans could stand to make big...
Jeffrey Vinik's Modus Operandi
The Sound of Silence was a hit song by Simon and Garfunkel in the 1960's, which today characterizes the current state or the Lightning franchise. It's not that the Bolts franchise is dormant in the offseason, but it is more along the lines of these Paul Simon lyrics: And in the naked light I...
Media jump-starts GM Search for Lightning
Erik Erlendsson at the Tampa Tribune has a list of potential general manager candidates for the Tampa Bay Lightning. Of course, if you go elsewhere, you'll hear that it's a done deal that the Minnesota Wild's former brainstrust would be taking over in Tampa. Some of the facts that need to be taken...
Speculation: Blue Jackets interested in Lee?
Ever since Brian Lee was sent down to the AHL, there has been speculation that he is no longer in Ottawa's plans. There were plenty of rumours going around, even some that involved the Blue Jackets, but Peter and I ignored them because they were not all that credible. Today, Aaron Portzline, beat...
The looming transaction - Ryan Craig on re-call waivers
The Lightning are carrying a total of 23 players - the league maximum. 23 players -- nine defensemen, twelve forwards, two goaltenders. That's what makes the news that Ryan Craig was placed on recall waivers (meaning the Bolts are trying to call him up) so intriguing. Craig, sent down to the...
Mike Smith is on the Hot Seat
Every team has multiple dramatic stories each year. You can single out tons of issues that any franchise - from the bottom-dwelling Bolts to the champion Pittsburgh Penguins -- face. How certain players on the roster have a little story about their need to overcome, how they have to improve, how...
The Pending (?) Lecavalier Trade
It's interesting how the so-called "rumors" of Vincent Lecavalier being traded from January have slipped into a being a distinct possibility in April. Not just a possibility, but perhaps even a likelihood. And the fan outrage from January about it has faded into a peevish...
How are financially-strapped teams going to make way for Sundin?
You hear it all the time: "The Rangers (for example) are going to need to move some players to provide the cap space in order to sign Mats Sundin." As much as it can seem like an impossibility in some cases for these teams to do so, teams like New York are still meeting with Sundin this weekend to...
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