Wake up.. Columbus!

So the new cannon fodder on dispatch.com brought up an interesting point…
Scott Howson may finally be realizing that Columbus is a very very difficult place to attract players.  They have the money, but players are going to places with more hockey tradition and more winning.
Fans are frustrated, and they’ve been fed promises.  In a way [...]

Restricted Free Agency

The talent pool in the UFA is shallow, and we missed the boat on quite a few players that we had our eyes on thus far.  Don’t even want to mention any names.  Anyway, my guess is that Howson may take a closer look at the Restricted Free Agents, there are some good ones out [...]

Tampa Bay Lightning strike again?

Well it looks though they completed a deal with Malone and Gary Roberts is supposedly close.  Now there are rumors that they acquired the rights to Brian Rolston??  What are we doing??!!  The suspense is ridiculous.  But for some reason, I feel like we might not be adding much come July 1.
Was reading some forums [...]

We blew it again!

Apparently we were going to go after Malone?  I guess not.  And he even said that he was going to test the market…  Not only that look below to see what they traded for.
This is our “aggressive” off-season?  I’m going to be very surprised to see what they are able to get done.  I just [...]

Ducks Answer

The Ducks have responded to Niedermayer’s “I’m coming back” by placing Todd Bertuzzi on waivers with the purpose of buying him out.  Bertuzzi has 1 more year left on his contract of $4 M and the cost of buying him out is 2/3rds of that that they can spread over 2 years.  The impact of [...]