NHL awards/draft/off-season/training camp/preseason running thread

hockeybeat · Jun 26, 2007

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Does your team need a lousy defenseman? Karel Rachunek can be had!

http://www.nypost.com/seven/06262007/sports/rangers/blueshirts_cut_rachunek_loose_rangers_larry_brooks.htm

JR · Jun 26, 2007

Re: 2007 NHL awards, draft and off-season running thread

Damien Cox goes after MLSE about Ferguson. Either let him do his job or fire him

http://thestar.blogs.com/thespin/2007/06/let-the-man-do-.html

Keeping the current setup is why Colin Campbell and other respected hockey people weren't interested in the job when JFJ got it. Lou Lamoriello and Brian Burke would never, ever work in a situation in which they had to run everything past a board of directors.

Hasn't changed since the days when Dryden was President.

hockeybeat · Jun 27, 2007

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Atlanta traded the rights to Keith Tkachuk to St. Louis for a draft pick.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HKN_THRASHERS_BLUES_TRADE?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=NYDN-AP-Sports.html

JR · Jun 27, 2007

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hockeybeat said:

Atlanta traded the rights to Keith Tkachuk to St. Louis for a draft pick.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HKN_THRASHERS_BLUES_TRADE?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=NYDN-AP-Sports.html
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I wonder if he'll report to camp 30 lbs overweight.

One of my least favorite hockey players. Wasn't he one of the guys involved in the room trashing at Nagano?

hockeybeat · Jun 27, 2007

Re: 2007 NHL awards, draft and off-season running thread

JR said:

hockeybeat said:

Atlanta traded the rights to Keith Tkachuk to St. Louis for a draft pick.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HKN_THRASHERS_BLUES_TRADE?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=NYDN-AP-Sports.html
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I wonder if he'll report to camp 30 lbs overweight.

One of my least favorite hockey players. Wasn't he one of the guys involved in the room trashing at Nagano?
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He and Guerin trashed a hotel room and sprayed a sleeping Mike Richter with a fire extinguisher.

Beef03 · Jun 27, 2007

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hockeybeat said:

JR said:

hockeybeat said:

Atlanta traded the rights to Keith Tkachuk to St. Louis for a draft pick.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/H/HKN_THRASHERS_BLUES_TRADE?SITE=NYNYD&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=NYDN-AP-Sports.html
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I wonder if he'll report to camp 30 lbs overweight.

One of my least favorite hockey players. Wasn't he one of the guys involved in the room trashing at Nagano?
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He and Guerin trashed a hotel room and sprayed a sleeping Mike Richter with a fire extinguisher.
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My favourite part of that whole "scandal" is how apparently Team USA's Hockey team was the only group of people who got stuck with 'substandard' chairs, with the breaking and so on.

hockeybeat · Jun 28, 2007

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Marty Brodeur is off the competition comittee, after they didn't heed his requests to make the game safer for goaltenders.

Unable to make a difference, Brodeur quits committee

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Saying the NHL is not doing enough to protect its goaltenders, New Jersey's Martin Brodeur abruptly resigned from the league's competition committee, the Toronto Star reported on Wednesday.

"I just don't want that responsibility any more," Brodeur told The Star. "I thought I would be able to make a difference, but I guess I was wrong."

Brodeur, a three-time winner of the Vezina Trophy, was brought on the committee 18 months ago for, among other reasons, giving the five-player group at least one goalie's voice. But Brodeur told The Star that his ideas have been ignored.

"I didn't feel I was making a difference, and I hate wasting my time when it doesn't seem to matter," he told the newspaper. "I brought up a lot of different points, suggested different ideas like a bigger crease, but nothing's changed. The protection of goaltenders has just become ridiculous.

"It's hard when nothing's improving and your name is associated with it. I didn't want to live with that."

Whereas the NHL adopted a more wide-open style of play following the 2004 lockout, the competition committee has been charged with making recommendations to help alter rules and rule interpretations. In the past, when players were not at all allowed in the crease, the new standard often sees players making contact with goaltenders or having two skates in the crease when a goal is scored.

Dallas Stars goaltender Marty Turco is expected to be appointed by the NHL Players' Association to take Brodeur's spot, according to The Star.

"I talked to [Turco], and he's got a lot of passion for it, and I told him if he has the energy to go for it," Brodeur told The Star. "I tried for a year-and-a-half, and I guess I figured it was better to take my time and energy and take care of my team, not worry about the rest of the world."

NHLPA spokesperson Jonathan Weatherdon told ESPN.com on Wednesday that the executive board will consider Brodeur's replacement "in the near future."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2918344
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Terry Frei's HHOF vote and reasons whyfore:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/columns/story?columnist=frei_terry&id=2918472

hockeybeat · Jun 28, 2007

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Donald Fehr advised the NHLPA not to conduct secret meetings and read players' private e-mails. Words fail me.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=2918961

ondeadline · Jun 28, 2007

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If Francis and Messier aren't two of the four picked today, they ought to drug-test the committee. The only real question is who the other two picks for the Hall will be. I'm thinking Scott Stevens has a decent shot along with Larionov and MacInnis.

ondeadline · Jun 28, 2007

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It's official: Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens are in the Hall and NHL executive Jim Gregory was voted in as a builder.

Huggy · Jun 28, 2007

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Gregory should be in for no other reason than his job pronouncing European player names and teams after the first round of the NHL Draft.

Sam Mills 51 · Jun 28, 2007

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ondeadline said:

It's official: Mark Messier, Ron Francis, Al MacInnis and Scott Stevens are in the Hall and NHL executive Jim Gregory was voted in as a builder.
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It should have been a formality for Ron Francis. As much as I want to wear the jersey/sweater, it's freaking hot here.

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