This is Riley Nash. There are still a couple of cuts to come, but it looks like he might be a Carolina Hurricane opening night. The Oilers traded him to the pick that turned into Martin Marincin during the 2010 draft, and Nash has taken a beating in various places (mostly on radio) as a potential NP. This could certainly be true, Nash hasn't played in the NHL yet and he was drafted several years ago. Having said that, he has a nice range of skills and appears to be on the verge of making his first NHL team.
- Waivers: Every year we watch the waiver wire and every year good players pass through waivers. Edmonton could grab Michael Leighton right now, but it won't happen. Leighton had a ripping .926SP last season in the AHL but Edmonton will set sail with NK and Dubnyk this fall.
- Waivers: Minnesota plucked former St. Albert Saint Nick Johnson off waivers from the Pens. It's a nice transaction, not much cost and he could turn into a useful player. I wonder why the NHL have nots don't do this more often. Back in the day, teams like the Washington Capitals improved every year by grabbing a loose Hab (famously Pierre Bouchard but there were others).
- Waivers: I wonder why Chris Bourque doesn't get a look via waivers. Buddy doesn't have size but certainly has skill.
- Tambellini: I heard him on the radio today saying they'll start the season with the current blue and then address when needed. Okay, then.
"when needed"
ReplyDeleteOy.
I really, really miss the waiver draft.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure they're be at least a passable defenseman available for us if the NHL still did that.
Rick: Me too. Loved it. Pisani was a waiver eligible one year, I think it was the year he ended up playing 35 NHL games.
ReplyDeleteI really wonder about Steve Tambellini as a judge of NHL talent.
ReplyDeleteFun captcha: "dedily"
Leighton is an awful goalie despite what the AHL save percentage says.
ReplyDeleteAt this point he may be better than Khabibulin but there's no way management will send him down.
The Oilers would be forced to keep Leighton on the roster so unless they plan on keeping 3 goalies in camp yet again...
Didn't know Capitals got Bouchard off waivers, did they get Rod Langway the same way? As a kid I remember him developing with the Habs and establishing himself mainly as a toughguy but getting the lots of polite criticism from Dick Irvin over penalties.
ReplyDeleteLangway was part of a massive deal, changed WASH forever. Ryan Walter and Rick Green to MTL for Langway, Englbom, Jarvis and Laughlin.
ReplyDeleteGrundman gave away more in 5 minutes than Pollock did in a lifetime.
I guess Tambo has not learned much from post-lock out/new CBA world.
ReplyDeleteWhen teams break camp, this is your last change to make a decent deal to add players to your team until the trade deadline looms.
If your defense stinks or is riddled with injury and you need to make a trade, you are dealing from a position of weakness and you don't good value nor are you able to pry away notable players that aren't on a huge contract or under-achievers.
Now is the time to pull the trigger on a deal for that dman, not in Dec or Jan.
If this group of 11 guys who remain in cap can't get it done, the rest of the season will be sunk. Argghhh ...
The exception to not being able to trade in the first months of the season would be a young team where the pantry has squirrel cheeks, if said young team is also an attractive player destination. Oh well then.
ReplyDeleteThe Flames traded Phaneuf to Toronto on December 31st.
ReplyDeleteThere are other examples.
That was a huge trade. Engblom too eh. They never could say his name right in Montreal anyway. Remember Green as a top draft pick not working out. Guess that was an example of the up-and-comers in the trade being the stones in the buildup.
ReplyDeleteHopefully Le Klefbom and Tuebert are as valuable.
RealKyper Nick Kypreos
ReplyDeleteOr it is imminent.... @JSportsnet: Kings have announced a verbal agreement with Drew Doughty.
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The Flames traded Phaneuf to Toronto on December 31st.
ReplyDeleteNot to nitpick, but I'm 99% sure it was January 31, 2010. I say this because I remember being in the Starbucks, hung-over as heck from a birthday party the night before, when I got texted details of said trade.
Your point remains though - mid-season deals happen. Just more-so towards the deadline, as the cap implications for the current season decrease by the day.
@Hbomb
ReplyDeleteSome GM's are bolder than others.
Burke would trade his grandmother on Christmas Eve if he thought he could win a trade.
Of course, when you're trading with a Sutter, that's almost a foregone conclusion. :)
Doughty 8 years @ $7M. (rumoured)
ReplyDeleteTerms confirmed.
ReplyDeleteDoughty blinked...Lombardi got his UFA years for 200 grand.
Strangely apropos, aldaily links to The Shame of College Sports (apparently a paid promotion of the Visine corporation).
ReplyDeleteAnyone frustrated with RN story, blame The Atlantic for putting strange ideas into the heads of young men--or at least any studly ivy league mentat out there with especially lengthy bowel movements. Words by the acre, but a good paragraph or two with every flush.
Especially galling is the idea that these young men can't even properly plan their professional future while labouring under the amateur handcuffs.
The Toronto Blue Jays had made the left-handed pitcher James Paxton, of the University of Kentucky, the 37th pick in the 2009 draft. Paxton decided to reject a reported $1 million offer and return to school for his senior year, pursuing a dream [of college glory]. But then he ran into the new NCAA survey. Had Boras negotiated with the Blue Jays? Boras has denied that he did, but it would have made sense that he had—that was his job, to test the market for his client. [Bad idea to admit this.] Since Paxton was planning to go back to school and not accept their draft offer, the Blue Jays [] had every incentive to turn him in. The Blue Jays’ president, by telling reporters that Boras had negotiated on Paxton’s behalf, [demonstrated] they could use the NCAA’s rules to punish college players who wasted their draft picks by returning to college.
But wait, it gets worse.
... NCAA Bylaw 10.1(j) specified that anything short of complete cooperation [dropping your pants to a hostile investigator] could be interpreted as unethical conduct, affecting his amateur status.
It's a mightly fine line. Turns out asking is doing.
The NCAA appraised the result with satisfaction. “When negotiations occur on behalf of student-athletes,” Erik Christianson, the NCAA spokesperson, told The New York Times in reference to the Oliver case, “those negotiations indicate that the student-athlete intends to become a professional athlete and no longer remain an amateur.”
"Intends to become" describes a lot of young women, jewish and otherwise, suffering through first year organic chemistry. Suck it up, girls, you're professionals now. You might or might not stick it out until you get the white coat, but those are just details.
IANAL, but I think by that standard, in enacting those rules, the NCAA abandons any antitrust exemption they might have once enjoyed--wouldn't it be nice if that shit cut both ways. I would not enjoy being a piece of meat unable to properly plan my transition from amateur to professional status.
Damn, the NCAA resembles the AKC. From Wikipedia, kinda:
In deference to the dog's student-athlete status, [Kennel clubs reluctantly concede] scars and broken teeth received in the line of duty are not to be counted against a Border Collie in the show ring.
But those broken teeth won't count as a disability, either. All the better to rack up $750 million in annual revenue on the back of an amateur labour pool, while having no financial obligation toward crippling injury (there's a whole flush devoted to this).
The people who love their dogs think differently:
... a dog's appearance is considered by the American Border Collie Association to be irrelevant. It is considered much more useful to identify a working Border Collie by its attitude and ability than by its looks.
Terms confirmed.
ReplyDeleteDoughty blinked...Lombardi got his UFA years for 200 grand.
Agreed.
$7/yr will be a pretty good deal for LA in years 6 and 7.
It'll be interesting to watch Nash's progress this season. I have a tough time thinking that he will have a strong showing at the NHL level this season after putting up pretty pedestrian numbers in the AHL last year.
ReplyDeleteIf he turns in a solid performance on the 4th line, then that is a pretty big developmental leap for the kid. What does the Carolina depth chart look like?
Staal
Sutter
Dalpe?
XXX?
Whats up with Klefbom(b)? Four games and nuthin to show.
ReplyDeleteWord verification: lamen. The Oil roster for the last two seasons
as per hockeydb.com
ReplyDelete2010-Jan-31 Traded from Calgary Flames with Keith Aulie and Fredrik Sjostrom to Toronto Maple Leafs for Ian White, Matthew Stajan, Niklas Hagman and Jamal Mayers
ya Regwald...a brain fart on my part
ReplyDeleteJFJ assigned to Syracuse.
ReplyDeleteThat's one way to dodge a suspension :)
Special ruling due to Downie I believe. via twitter.
ReplyDeleteJeffMarek Jeff Marek
AHL rules J-F Jacques ineligible to play until Oct 15. Tom Sestito not until Oct 9. This does not affect their NHL suspensions.
Tambellini should be on the phone right now making an offer for Slava Voynov.
ReplyDeleteAlthough I am sure the Kings would want anyone going the other way to spend a week at the Mayor Clinic.
Mayo
ReplyDeleteAs much as I dislike like Brian Burke,I do admire him for his "no trade" policy during Christmas.Don't remember the dates,something like a couple of weeks before and a week after.
ReplyDeletenot sure if anyone noticed but the Looney has been getting killed the last few months. BMO has a .93 target for the end of the year and the people I respect in the business think it goes lower next year.
ReplyDeleteDon't spend all that cap money folks it is going down next year.
ty wishart on waivers
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ReplyDeleteOilers already have most of their revenues from this season. A drop in the loonie doesn't hurt as much right now as it would have in July.
Revenues for this year should remain pretty high, it's next year where they might fall, which impacts the cap in 2013-14
and a dirty play likely ends feduns season
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