Running 2007 NHL regular season thread

The least talked about non-move of the 2007 summer off-season was Pittsburgh GM Ray Shero deciding he needed to see more of Marc-Andre Fleury before giving him a long-term deal like Sidney Crosby and Ryan Whitney received over the summer.

If Shero wanted to be proven correct in that assessment, Fleury did all he could last night to kick bad rebounds to the slot for easy put-backs, prove he can't handle the puck moving it from point A to point B, and couldn't make the big save when it counted to keep the team into the game.

Meanwhile, Cam Ward was stonewalling great chances by Staal, Malkin, Roberts and Sykora.

How long will the fans in Pittsburgh stand behind their goalie even with the knowledge of Dan Sabourin behind the masked French-men or Ty Conklin in Wilkes-Barre (AHL)?

 

Sabourin looked solid in his short time in net last night. I don't know if I'd have a lot of confidence in Conklin.

 

It is not a true suspension, it is just a way to help them with the cap. i would have thought most Sabre fans would have known this.

 

Ty Conklin is a career minor league goalie. No way he's a bona fide starter in the NHL

 

He's good puck-handler behind the net in Stanley Cup finals games, though.

 

Geez, forgot about that. Good one.

 

Beat this, boys an girls.

The Don Mills Flyers, a very unusual minor atom hockey team of 8- and 9-year-old boys, can trace their ties to all 18 cups through family connections.


http://www.thestar.com/Sports/JuniorHockey/article/264256

The Don Mills Flyers is a AAA organization and a couple of dozen have gone on to play in the NHL

There's Blake. His dad, Paul Coffey, is the assistant coach for the minor AAA team and a four-time Stanley Cup winner with the Edmonton Oilers.

Over there is George; his granddad is Red Kelly, who won eight Cups with Detroit and Toronto. Then there's Tyson, son of Doug Gilmour, a Cup winner with the Calgary Flames. And Callum; his great uncle Carl Brewer captured three Cups with the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1960s. And don't forget James, great nephew of former Boston Bruin Don Awrey, whose name is inscribed on Lord Stanley's mug twice.

 

Man, I would love to be able to say 'my pops is Red Kelly.' So cool.

 

I believe at one time Kris Draper was a Don Mills Flyer.

 

Moves that make you scratch your head: The Canes re-sign defenseman David Tanabe, who couldn't even make the Blues roster in preseason.

 

He was.
So was Manny Legace, Kirk Maclean, Scott Mellanby, Rich Tochet, Larry Murphy & Peter Zezel

 

Oh hockeybeat, please tell me what's the scoop on Avery's shoulder?