Northeast Rumors & News
Preseason starts on Tuesday
Bruins Blog | Boston Globe — Although full training camp officially opens on Sept. 17 with fitness testing for veterans, the preseason unofficially starts at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at Ristuccia Arena with informal skates. The sessions are closed to the public. The only camp sessions...
Boston Bruins 4 hours agoFifty-seven players to compete at camp
Bruins Blog | Boston Globe — Thirty-two forwards, 19 defensemen, and six goalies will participate in rookie camp and main camp this month. It is undetermined how many rookies will advance to the big-boy sessions. Here is the roster: Forwards Jamie Arniel Patrice Bergeron Gregory Campbell...
Boston Bruins 4 hours agoFriday grab bag: MSM v. Bloggers, defence, television
Hockey Capital | Ottawa Citizen — Since I took over this job a few years ago, I've put a lot of effort into trying to create more links between the paper and the web, and bloggers and the mainstream media. I quite enjoy some of the blogs produced by fans in Ottawa, and have had some great laughs on both The 6th Sens and Sens Underground podcasts over the past year or so. Last season, four bloggers joined our popular prediction panel, writing entertaining projections for each Senators game and cracking me up on a regular basis.Yet there still seems to be a disconnect on some levels between the MSM and interweb authors, so our S...
Ottawa Senators 5 hours agoSmith signs one-year contract
Bruins Blog | Boston Globe — The Bruins have signed veteran forward Wyatt Smith to a one-year contract. The Bruins were hunting for up-front depth after center Trent Whitfield suffered an injured Achilles tendon. Smith has appeared in 211 career NHL games for Phoenix, Nashville, the...
Boston Bruins 6 hours agoBasta!
Habs Inside/Out Mike Boone | Montreal Gazette — It's a word I learned watching movies and listening to my Italian friends.It means "Enough!" – and the exclamation point is added because "Basta!" is usually shouted by someone who has about as much as he/she can take.The generally agreed-upon facts:In 2005, the Montreal Canadiens did not draft Anze Kopitar. They drafted Carey Price.In 2007, the Canadiens did not billet Price with an older and more mature player, like the Penguins did with Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. They let the future of the franchise live on his own, in Old Montreal.This summer, the Canadiens traded Jaroslav Halak and ...
Montreal Canadiens 6 hours agoSens' prospects see opening
Ottawa Citizen — Two of Ottawa's top young defensive prospects, Jared Cowen and Patrick Wiercioch, were among the two dozen or so NHL players getting some pre-training camp skating in at the Bell Sensplex on Thursday.
Ottawa Senators 7 hours agoNot making a big deal out of it
The Boston Globe — With a deadline set for today at 5 p.m. on whether to approve or reject Ilya Kovalchuk’s latest contract with New Jersey, the NHL continues to place that deal in its crosshairs. As a result, the investigation into Marc Savard’s seven-year, $28.05 million contract is not a priority. New Jersey - Ilya Kovalchuk - Marc Savard - National Hockey League - United States
Boston Bruins 10 hours agoPrice, Price and more Price
Habs Inside/Out | Montreal Gazette — • Pat Hickey's take:"There was never any doubt that Price would sign and my only surprise was that Gauthier seemed unnecessarily generous, giving Price $2.5 million in the coming season and $3 million the following season. "It's a bargain if he can surpass the numbers he put up as a rookie. But it will be wasted money if he doesn't improve over his performance since February 2009. Since Price appeared in the 2009 All-Star game in Montreal, he has looked like anything but an all-star. His record in that period has been 20-32-10 which means that he has lost more than twice as ma...
Montreal Canadiens 10 hours agoPhotos: Sens and 67s skate
Ottawa Citizen — Preparation for training camp begins. First Day of the Ottawa 67's training camp at the Ottawa Civic Centre, also Senators and assorted professional hockey players gather at the Bell Sensplex, September 2, 2010, for some skating drills and a scrimmage as they get ready for training camp to begin in the next couple of weeks.
Ottawa Senators 18 hours agoYoungsters Cowen, Wiercioch aim to impress Sens
Ottawa Citizen — Two of the Ottawa Senators’ top young defence prospects, Jared Cowen and Patrick Wiercioch, were among the two dozen or so players getting some pre-training camp skating in on Thursday.
Ottawa Senators 18 hours ago
- Ilya Kovalchuk's re-worked contract with Devils to be approved, report says Newark Star-Ledger NHL, NHLPA agree to amendment to rules that govern long-term contracts
- Penguins single-game seats to go on sale Pittsburgh Post-Gazette About 2,000 single-game tickets for each Penguins home date for the first season at Consol Energy Center will go on sale at 10 a.m. next Friday.
- NHL and NHLPA reach agreement, Kovalchuk deal to be approved (confirmed) Fire & Ice | Bergen Record The NHL and the NHL Players’ Association have reached an agreement on guidelines for future long-term contracts and the official paperwork is being worked on with the aim of completing it before today’s 5 p.m. deadline, multiple sources have confirmed to me. As part of the agreement, the 15-year, $100 million contract Ilya Kovalchuk signed with the Devils a week ago will be approved. The news that an agreement had been reached was first reported by ESPN and TSN. A source said the new guidelines include stipulations about how the salary cap hit would be calculated for long-term deals that go...
- Short summer over, Eager reports for voluntary work Thrashers Blog | Atlanta Journal-Constitution Ben Eager’s summer was short. That’s what happens when you play into the month of June en route to winning the Stanley Cup. Still the new Thrashers forward – one of four members of the title-winning Blackhawks to join the franchise this offseason – had enough time off. He joined the many other players that have reported to the team’s practice facility for voluntary workouts in advance of training camp. He is the first of the former Blackhawks to arrive. “It was that time,” Eager told the AJC. “I had been off for a couple months. I like to get back at it early and get back on the ice and get ar...
- Mike Knuble: Caps 'can't wait to get to spring' Capitals Insider | Washington Post Mike Knuble was back in his usual spot -- directly in front of the goaltender -- today at Kettler Capitals Iceplex, where he is the latest to join the group of Capitals players skating in the mornings. We're in the home stretch of summer, with more players expected to return to the ice after Labor Day weekend and rookie camp slated to open a week from Sunday. The oldest of the Capitals regulars, 38-year-old Knuble said he feels more comfortable heading into his second season in Washington and that he knows from the get-go what kind of expectations and questions the team will face. "I expect, r...
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