Well the Forsberg saga finaly came to an end this week, when the Flyers traded him to the Nashville Predators for Scott Upshall, prospect Ryan Parent and 1st round pick in next June's draft. This move has had an effect on the teams who were in the running for Forsberg, and has left them scrambling and set their sights on other top potential candidates.
Fellow blogger Spector in his latest Fox column has a list of players that could be on the move. Among the names mentionned his article, you have Keith Tkachuk from St-Louis who would be willing to waive his no trade clause to go to a contender, the Blues asking will be pretty high, young talent and draft choices, a team seeking his services would have to clear at least 1.5 m in salary, if dealt at the deadline his cap hit for the remainder of the season would be about 1.2 + m. Spector also cites Bill Guerin as being available, his cap hit at the deadline would be more modest that his teammate's,figure around 500 k +.
The Ottawa Sun's hockey columnist, Bruce Garrioch, in a piece takes a stab at who will be buyers and sellers leading up to February 27th's trade deadline. Interesting and worth reading if you want to keep track of the comings and goings on that day. We could say it's the NHL's version of boxing day sales, we love them don't we ?
This week on Sportsnet, an incident happened, when the face of the well known anynomous hockey blogger Eklund, saw his face be revealed. Was it an accident or was it intentional, I guess you would have to ask the parties involved. Eklund has been subject of criticism about his connections and sources, but this week he batted a 1000 with the Forsberg deal, and had it posted on his site before the majority of the news web outlets did, so i have to say he his the real thing, but I would like to see him come up with a few more before i am totaly convinced.
Alot of rumblings coming the fans in Habland, they are not happy campers as we speak, just go visit some Forums, either in english or french, they are pointing fingers everywhere, either the players take the wrath or it's the management, starting with Gm, Bob Gainey and down to head coach, Carbonneau and his associates. I'm surprised they have not asked for the zamboni driver to be fired. As mentionned in the above piece from Bruce Garrioch, he mentions them as being buyers, this in light of the Huet injury and the six game losing streak, that has brought the habs from fourth to tenth place, that is incredible, seeing it being the 30th anniversary of the great season they had in 1976-77, when they recorded 60 wins and only lost one thenth of their games, a team on which Bob Gainey and Doug Jarvis played on. How times have changed in the land of Les Glorieux.
There seems to be a general consent among bloggers that Montreal's Sheldon Souray will be the menu du jour until Bob Gainey makes a public statement that he has no intention on trading his defenceman. An another loss tonight against the Blue Jackets could lead Gainey to decide to tank the season and become a seller rather than a buyer. Could underachieving Samsonov and fellow russian Kovalev be on the block, if such a decision is made ? My personal point of view, I don't think to many people in Montreal or other places that the Canadiens have a fan base, will be too sad to see Kovalev leave the Habs, my myself included. I think he is the source of the teams downfall since christmas, his attitude and not caring does not fall in to Carbonneau's or Gainey's play as a team philosophy. I think Gainey maybe a little more patient with Samsonov, because of the meeting he had with his winger,and he has played better and is working and seems to be more interested in helping the team get out of it's slump than before the meeting, but we will have to see.
That's all for now folks !
Fellow blogger Spector in his latest Fox column has a list of players that could be on the move. Among the names mentionned his article, you have Keith Tkachuk from St-Louis who would be willing to waive his no trade clause to go to a contender, the Blues asking will be pretty high, young talent and draft choices, a team seeking his services would have to clear at least 1.5 m in salary, if dealt at the deadline his cap hit for the remainder of the season would be about 1.2 + m. Spector also cites Bill Guerin as being available, his cap hit at the deadline would be more modest that his teammate's,figure around 500 k +.
The Ottawa Sun's hockey columnist, Bruce Garrioch, in a piece takes a stab at who will be buyers and sellers leading up to February 27th's trade deadline. Interesting and worth reading if you want to keep track of the comings and goings on that day. We could say it's the NHL's version of boxing day sales, we love them don't we ?
This week on Sportsnet, an incident happened, when the face of the well known anynomous hockey blogger Eklund, saw his face be revealed. Was it an accident or was it intentional, I guess you would have to ask the parties involved. Eklund has been subject of criticism about his connections and sources, but this week he batted a 1000 with the Forsberg deal, and had it posted on his site before the majority of the news web outlets did, so i have to say he his the real thing, but I would like to see him come up with a few more before i am totaly convinced.
Alot of rumblings coming the fans in Habland, they are not happy campers as we speak, just go visit some Forums, either in english or french, they are pointing fingers everywhere, either the players take the wrath or it's the management, starting with Gm, Bob Gainey and down to head coach, Carbonneau and his associates. I'm surprised they have not asked for the zamboni driver to be fired. As mentionned in the above piece from Bruce Garrioch, he mentions them as being buyers, this in light of the Huet injury and the six game losing streak, that has brought the habs from fourth to tenth place, that is incredible, seeing it being the 30th anniversary of the great season they had in 1976-77, when they recorded 60 wins and only lost one thenth of their games, a team on which Bob Gainey and Doug Jarvis played on. How times have changed in the land of Les Glorieux.
There seems to be a general consent among bloggers that Montreal's Sheldon Souray will be the menu du jour until Bob Gainey makes a public statement that he has no intention on trading his defenceman. An another loss tonight against the Blue Jackets could lead Gainey to decide to tank the season and become a seller rather than a buyer. Could underachieving Samsonov and fellow russian Kovalev be on the block, if such a decision is made ? My personal point of view, I don't think to many people in Montreal or other places that the Canadiens have a fan base, will be too sad to see Kovalev leave the Habs, my myself included. I think he is the source of the teams downfall since christmas, his attitude and not caring does not fall in to Carbonneau's or Gainey's play as a team philosophy. I think Gainey maybe a little more patient with Samsonov, because of the meeting he had with his winger,and he has played better and is working and seems to be more interested in helping the team get out of it's slump than before the meeting, but we will have to see.
That's all for now folks !
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