*sigh* More salary cap stuff… I’m going to be honest - I don’t completely understand this but here’s the story anyway:
Player paycheques will be 9.5 per cent smaller during the first quarter of the 2007-08 NHL season, but that money could find its way back later on depending on the league’s bottom line.
The money withheld […]
Wow… I used the word “earning” lightly since, really, deals can turn sour in a heartbeat. Still, tonight Daniel Brière of the Philadelphia Flyers earned his keep when he almost single-handedly spanked the Calgary Flames to lead his team to a 3-2 win for the season opener.
So, who are these men getting the […]
The NHL must be doing a lot better given the league has raised the salary cap to $50.3-million from $44-million. The minimum a team can spend is $34.3-million, while the top salary that an individual player can make is now $10.6-million.
Even though television revenue in the U.S. is almost non-existent, the salary cap has […]
With the NHL free-agent bonanza poised to kick off on July 1, the question you got to ask is how high will a team be willing to go to snap one of the top stars such as Daniel Briere, Chris Drury, Ryan Smyth or Scott Gomez.
With the salary-cap expected to climb to $50-million and […]
So let’s put the NHL draft behind us. After all, we’re talking about 18-year-old players with lots of potential but no guarantee they will ever become solid NHL players. Anyone remember Greg Joly or Doug Wickenheiser? (Note: Later this week, my brother, Sean, will be producing a multi-part analysis of the #1 picks in the […]
What does Dave Pelton see that other don’t? A Nashville businessman, Pelton believes the Nashville Predators deserve to be in Nashville. I guess this view must be based more on civic pride than the fact the team barely draws 14,000 fans a game and it has little corporate support. Meanwhile, Predators owner Craig Leipold suggests […]
The Toronto Maple Leafs signed veteran Mats Sundin to a one-year, $5.5-million deal today.
The fact it’s only a one-year deal is, if anything, intriguing. It suggests Sundin may want to give himself an out if the Maple Leafs don’t improve from last year’s performance in which they missed the playoffs for the third-straight year. […]
A bunch of interesting items from the hockey world - aside from the Anaheim Ducks holding a 3-1 edge over the Ottawa Senators in the Stanley Cup final.
1. The scandal-plagued NHLPA plans to meet with a couple of sports union heavyweights in Toronto this week: Major League Baseball Player Association’s Donald Fehr, MLBPA legal counsel […]
Andrei Markov, a steady but unspectacular defenseman, has signed a four-year, $23-million contract to stay with the Montreal Canadians. Last year, Markov had six goals and 43 assists in 77 games. The deal, which materialized five weeks before Markov was to become an unrestricted free agent, begs the question: is a steady, 29-year-old defenseman now […]
There’s only 38 days until the free-agent market opens on July 1, which begs the question: who will be the hottest commodity? To set the stage, here’s a list of the highest-profile unrestricted free-agents:
Daniel Briere, Buffalo
Chris Drury, Buffalo
Scott Gomez, New Jersey
Ryan Smyth, NYI
Teemu Selanne, Anaheim
Paul Kariya, Nashville
Peter Forsberg, Nashville
Bill Guerin, San Jose
Mike Comrie, Ottawa
From early […]
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Written by Jeanne Dupuis [email] for b5media.
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