Hockey Rambling

Evander Kane has signed an ELC with Atlanta. Do I think he will make the team? No, I think he is a year away. But I do believe he will get a nine-game tryout.   The Kings also signed Justin Azevedo to his first two-way deal. Prior to this, he was on an AHL deal. [...]

Angus here - fire away with your fantasy hockey-related questions to me all afternoon! Check it out in my section on the DobberHockey boards!   The Flyers signed Jason Ward as a UFA. His presense will not impact the odds of Nodl or JVR making the squad. Maybe Powe, Asham or Kalinski - depth guys [...]

Janis Sprukts has signed to play in the KHL next year.   Anaheim has signed Nick Deschamps to an entry-level contract. He is still several years away with second-line upside.   The Devils signed Patrice Cormier to an ELC, as well as Nathan Perkowich. Cormier is a power forward who several years away from making [...]

  The Kings have signed Jack Johnson. He'll be a stud, but I don't think it will happen this year or next. I am also worried about his fragility, but it's still too soon to judge for sure.   The Wild have signed Wade Dubie. That's a signal that Harding could be on the move [...]

  The Coyotes placed Nigel Dawes on waivers and the Calgary Flames picked him up. This is a great opportunity for him to turn his career back around with a second-line job. I still think that Boyd will be in the top six, and I would probably hurt Glencross as a dark horse consideration... unless [...]

  Adrian Dater is reporting in his Avs blog that the team will not sign Parshin this year, as I hinted at below. He will remain in the KHL for at least one more year.   The Coyotes have signed Korpikoski to a two-year contract.   The big news of the day - Kari Lehtonen [...]

  Carolina has signed Tom Kostopolous to a three-year deal worth about $900K per. Yep, that's the daily news we can look forward to for the next while...   The Bruins added some more depth in signing UFA forwards Trent Whitfield and Drew Larman.   The Isles have signed goalie Mikko Koskinen to an entry-level [...]

  I have some things to attend to personally that will wipe out my entire morning (July 14), so the ramblings won't begin until the afternoon. Ramblings don't really start rolling until the afternoon anyway.   Comcast Sportsnet is reporting that Chicago GM Dale Tallon has been fired and that Stan Bowman will take over [...]

  You may or may not be interested - Antoine Vermette was married on Saturday. Miroslav Satan's wife had a baby girl today.   Here are some rumors floating around that are not from solid sources, so I figure half of them will come true: Sergei Zubov, Martin Gerber and Lauri Korpikoski are talking with [...]

  Even though the Flames signed big Brian McGrattan, I don't think he'll hurt Prust's PIM any. In fact, I don't see McGrattan playing more than 45 games this year. Too much uncertainty.   The Pens have signed Jay McKee to help make up for the loss of Rob Scuderi. The latter had a huge [...]