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  1. Congrats to Joe! Mark Masters @markhmasters · 3m3 minutes ago The Joe Hicketts story gets better and better... passed over by every NHL team in June, the 5-foot-8 d-man is now on Team Canada
  2. Royals Dman Keegan Kanzig will be in the lineup for the Flames against the Canucks tonight @6pm on SN360 He will wear # 73
  3. Axel Blomqvist got sent back to the Royals this morning. Magee got sent back too but he is serving a 12 game suspension from playoffs last season. In other news on Hicketts Defenseman Joe Hicketts made the most of an invitation to attend the Detroit Red Wings prospects tournament and training camp as a free-agent invitee. The Red Wings announced this afternoon that they've signed Hicketts to a three-year, entry level contract. Hicketts scored two goals to help the Red Wings finish third in the prospects tournament despite being the smallest player on their roster at 5-foot-8. He was also their second-youngest player on the team at age 18. He scored the game-winning goal in a 6-5 overtime victory against the St. Louis Blues in the opener of the prospects tournament. Hicketts played well enough to catch the attention of general manager Ken Holland, who said Sunday that "he played real well in the prospect tournament. I thought he played real good today. He missed almost half the year last year with injuries. He's impressed us." Hicketts spent the past two seasons with the WHL's Victoria Royals. He had six goals and 18 assists in each season and was plus-25 in 2013-14. He'll play in Victoria again this season, according to Red Wings assistant G.M. Ryan Martin. http://www.mlive.com/redwings/index.ssf/2014/09/red_wings_sign_defenseman_joe.html
  4. Got my tix for the home opener Royals missing at NHL camps Axel Blomqvist with the Jets and Austin Carroll and Brandon Magee with the Flames. Joe Hicketts skating in Red Wings camp and Keegan Kanzig with the Flames
  5. News1130 Sports ‏@News1130Sports 6m Chris Tanev in same camp as Kassian - won't accept qualifying offer. These 2 contracts won't be easy for the #Canucks. Offer sheet penalties $1,110,249 or below - No Compensation Over $1,110,249 to $1,682,194 - 3rd round pick Over $1,682,194 to $3,364,391 - 2nd round pick Over $3,364,391 to $5,046,585 - 1st round pick, 3rd Over $5,046,585 to $6,728,781 - 1st round pick, 2nd, 3rd Over $6,728,781 To $8,410,976 - Two 1st Round Picks, 2nd, 3rd Over $8,410,976 - Four 1st Round Picks
  6. This to News1130 Sports ‏@News1130Sports 4m The Kings sent a qualifying offer to Linden Vey - the #Canucks now assume that responsibility.
  7. News1130 Sports @News1130Sports Follow The agent for goalie Eddie Lack says he has talked with his client about the #Canucks going after a veteran goalie. News1130 Sports @News1130Sports Follow Kurt Overhardt says "Lack is ok with it, he's still learning and getting better". 8:05 AM - 30 Jun 2014
  8. News1130 Sports ‏@News1130Sports 6m Liut says #Canucks made "significant push" but Miller will take his time. SJ and Ducks should be in mix. Expand News1130 Sports ‏@News1130Sports 7m Liut made Miller available to all teams over weekend in Philly for a vist, #Canucks jumped all over it.
  9. So TB trades Purcell to EDM for Gagne with the intent to buy out Gagne Buyout rules Younger than age 26 at the time of buyout, 1/3 the remaining value Age 26 or older at the time of the buyout, 2/3 the remaining value Gagne is 24 and Purcell is 27(Purcell would have cost 2/3 salary) TB flips Gagne to ARZ and pays 1/3 of his salary(same as buyout) but also dumps Cronbeens salary and gets a late draft pick Smooth moves by Stevie Y,
  10. A 6th for Gagne and Cronbeen and TB carries 1/3 of Gagnes contract Good deal for Zona
  11. Bob McKenzie ‏@TSNBobMcKenzie 6m BUF has initiated compliance buyout procedures on Christian Ehrhoff. Not official just yet but BUF has begun the process.
  12. George Richards ✔ @GeorgeRichards Follow #FlaPanthers Tallon says he doesn't want to drop any farther than eighth in the first round. Let the rumors begin.
  13. Did anybody notice that Francesco Aquilini was not invited to the party today! We are better!
  14. Benning's forte apparently is drafting I am sure he knows all about Shink and if he wants to move up I am sure he has a very good reason why! Getting #1 Overall doesn't come often unless your the Coilers.
  15. Good thing Rutherford is an idiot! Nobody offers a coach a 2 year contract plus refuses to allow that coach to chose his Asst's Yeesh! he probably wanted him to wash his cars on the weekends during the summer! Rutherford states he wants a Coach that "We need somebody that wants to be here" Yet he would not commit to the coach. From the PIT beat writer http://triblive.com/sports/penguins/6319254-74/rutherford-coach-nhl#axzz35HWJiMpR “The guy I had is going in a different direction,” Rutherford said Friday, adding he would take the weekend to “sort some things out.” Rutherford declined to identify his choice for coach, but team and league sources told the Tribune-Review that man was Willie Desjardins, a hot commodity after leading the AHL's Texas Stars to the Calder Cup this past season. Rutherford said the coaching search will resume Monday, and candidates will include those who did not interview this week. “I'll work off the same list I had, but it will be expanded by two or three names that for whatever reason weren't considered for interviews the last time,” Rutherford said. “We need somebody that wants to be here and really wants to win. Desjardins, 57, met with Rutherford in Pittsburgh on Thursday night and Friday morning, the sources said. Topics discussed included contract length, salary and assistant coaches, the sources said. Aside from Desjardins, the sources said other coach candidates included former NHL coaches Ron Wilson and Marc Crawford and league assistants Ulf Samuelsson (New York) and Bill Peters (Detroit). Peters agreed to a three-year contract with Carolina on Thursday. Interviews for the Penguins' job began Monday, and they were not limited to head coaching candidates. Rutherford also spoke with former Tampa Bay coach Rick Tocchet about a possible assistant coaching position and Carolina assistant Rod Brind'Amour about a role within the organization, the sources said. Brind'Amour, who had specialized in player development with Carolina, was promoted to a full-time assistant with the Hurricanes on Friday. Rutherford fired former coach Dan Bylsma, the Penguins' leader in regular-season and playoff wins, June 6. Rutherford said then he concurred with ownership's opinion that Bylsma was no longer the right coach for the Penguins. Rutherford also said then that Bylsma's former assistants — Tony Granato, Todd Reirden, Mike Bales and Jacques Martin — remain under contract but are free to interview for other NHL jobs.
  16. Weekes is not the best source or worst. I hope this rumour is true, but I am just a wee bit skeptical on this.
  17. U.S. Patent Office Cancels Trademark For Redskins Football Team The United States Patent and Trademark Office has canceled six federal trademark registrations for the name of the Washington Redskins, ruling that the name is “disparaging to Native Americans” and thus cannot be trademarked under federal law that prohibits the protection of offensive or disparaging language. The U.S. PTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board issued a ruling in the case, brought against the team by plaintiff Amanda Blackhorse, Wednesday morning. “We decide, based on the evidence properly before us, that these registrations must be cancelled because they were disparaging to Native Americans at the respective times they were registered,” the board wrote in its opinion. read more here http://thinkprogress.org/default/2014/06/18/3450333/in-landmark-decision-us-patent-office-cancels-trademark-for-redskins-football-team/
  18. Benning obviously wants the cap savings to spend! Stastny!!!!!
  19. Montreal should follow the Vancouver "model", Trade both Tokarski and Price.
  20. I don't think that Benning will want to trade Edler. It was reported that the Bruin's had a trade deadline deal for Edler ready to go, but it fell through. I am sure that Benning would have had his input on that trade. I don't see how he would want to acquire Edler when he was on the Bruin's and then when he becomes GM of the Canucks he would want to trade him, that makes no sense.
  21. Well, Thats disappointing! Will have to regroup, our guys will find a way.
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