Hockey Rambling

According to 640Toronto, Brian Murray announced that he had a deal in place for Redden at the draft, but Redden refused to waive his no-trade clause. The only reason Murray would make this public is to pressure Redden into accepting a deal, otherwise why make it public? Mike Cammalleri will be going to arbitration, as he [...]

As Jason Banks pointed out in our forum, Adam Munro had already signed with Chicago in the NHL, so Syracuse just signed for his AHL rights. If he goes to the NHL, it will be after an injury to Khabibulin or Lalime.   The Sens have avoided arbitration with Ray Emery by signing him to a [...]

Full analysis on this tomorrow morning...but I'll give you my quick write-up on it that I did for the SCORE Forecaster: The St. Louis Blues have acquired goaltender Hannu Toivonen from the Boston Bruins for center Carl Soderberg. What does it give the St. Louis Blues? At 23 years old, Toivonen still has a lot [...]

Eric Godard's contract with the Flames is a one-way deal for the minimum, so he'll stick with the big club this year. Dustin Boyd and Andrei Taratyukin hare having solid prospect camps for Calgary so far. One or both should make the team this season. Columbus GM Scott Howson will sit down with Nik Zherdev and his [...]

Curtis McElhinney has signed a contract with Calgary. He will battle Brent Krahn for the backup role behind Kiprusoff. Also signing were Eric Nystrom and Tomi Maki, neither of whom will ever put big points on the board. John Zeiler signed with Los Angeles. He has a shot at making the team as a fourth-line winger. [...]

Done AND Done! Yashin has signed a deal to go back to Russia. There is NO out clause. The Oilers have signed Joni Pitkanen to a contract.  The Coyotes have a 1A goalie after signing David Aebischer to a deal. Mikael Tellqvist will be 1B. Neither goalie deserves to be a starter, but both are capable of [...]

Looks like Dany Sabourin will have some competition as Fleury's backup. The Pens have signed Ty Conklin...so the two will compete for the position.  Petr Nedved has signed a contract to play in the Czech League this season. His NHL days, as expected, are over.  The Wild have re-signed the Boogeyman Derek Boogaard to a multi-year contract. [...]

The Canucks signed Ryan Shannon, who is a great dark horse - he's not there to be a checker, I'll tell you that much. Watch him and his role in camp. The 'Hawks signed Jim Vandermeer and Danny Richmond. The Preds signed their last RFA - Vern Fiddler. Two years, $1.7 million. They have about $1.5 (give [...]

The Kings have signed their fourth overall pick from this summer Thomas Hickey to a three-year entry level deal. He will not be on the pro roster this year. The Caps have re-signed Steve Eminger and Brian Sutherby to contracts.  New York has traded Matt Cullen back to Carolina for Andrew Hutchinson, prospect Joe Barnes, and a [...]

DOBBER'S POOL GUIDE - READY IN...  A great article on some Russian prospects, for your perusal: LINK   The Denver Post is reporting that Peter Forsberg underwent ankle surgery a few days ago. It was a casual, opinion column so I'm not sure I would put any stock in it, but if true he may miss [...]