roster-moves Stories - Anaheim Calling
The 1.5 Million Dollar Man
ARTHUR:Anaheim calling to the hockey world...Three days ago, the Ducks announced the signing of former Panthers defenseman, Nick Boynton. Dan Wood of the OC Register reports the contract as 1 year/1.5M. That salary is a paycut from the 3 year/2.95M per year deal he signed with Phoenix in 2006, a...
Prongs/Jiggy: Who Do You Move?
ARTHUR:The offseason talk has begun for the Anaheim Ducks. At this point, it looks like they'll make a play for most, or all, of their Restricted Free Agents (Bodie, Brown, Christensen and Wisniewski), as an unmatchable offer sheet for any of those players is unlikely and well-worth the draft picks...
Selanne to Mont-- I Mean --Koivu to Anaheim?
[2008 IHWC: Koivu to Selanne to Kloistinen and through the side of the net.]ARTHUR:Anaheim calling to the hockey world...For a few offseasons now, we've heard the rumor: Selanne to Montreal. Apparently, between calls from Paul Kariya, Teemu fields impassioned pleas from his countryman, Saku Koivu,...
RFA-Hunting We Will Go
ARTHUR:Anaheim calling to the hockey world...Barring a Giguere trade or Rob Niedermayer signing, Anaheim's offseason activity has concluded. By shipping Chris Pronger to Philadelphia and signing a handful of key and affordable free agents, Bob Murray has rebuilt his playoff team at (or slightly...
Pogge Mo Thóin
DANIEL:On August 10th, the Ducks officially announced the acquisition of Toronto goaltending prospect Justin Pogge in exchange for a conditional 6th Round pick in 2011, the condition being that if Pogge starts 30 or more regular season NHL games for Anaheim or a team he is traded to by Anaheim...
Ar Tyu Happy?
ARTHUR:Anaheim calling to the hockey world...Daniel has been clamoring for a checking forward this offseason, insisting that if the Ducks did not re-sign Rob Niedermayer, they had to acquire a valuable checker in his place. Anaheim has since acquired Evgeny Artyukhin.Daniel, with this acquisition,...
Is Murray Missing Out?
DANIEL:This is Anaheim Calling to the hockey world. The Free Agent maelstrom is continuing around the league. No one knows why the Rangers gave that much money to Gaborik, how the Blackhawks are going to re-sign the key players that go RFA next year, what the Kings did to scare away every elite...
Half Way Home Horrid
41 games in and I want a do over. 41 games in and I half (pun intended) to wonder just where the Lightning would be if Rick Tocchet had been in charge of the club, starting last summer? Where would the Lightning be with a training camp that was more than a few scrimmages and a European vacation? ...
A Marketing disaster
Opening day for the Tampa Bay Lightning and you know what? I had no clue it was today. I had no clue start time was before noon here in the Tampa Bay television market. I had no clue what station it was going to be broadcast on -- nationally!...right?! This is an international game after all...
Up, down, all around...
March 16th: Josef Melichar. Sent down. March 17th: Matt Lashoff. NHL Debut. He's teh Lightning's 20th D-man of the season March 18th: Cory Murphy. Out and done for the season... March 19th: Josef Melchar: called up / clears waivers. in the lineup tonight. I don't know whether to be...
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