2009 nhl free agency Stories - SB Nation
USA Hockey, NHL to blame for denying transfer card for Hudler
Peter Adler, a reporter for the Edmonton Journal, reports via their Cult of Hockey blog that USA Hockey and the NHL are the reasons for the IIHF blocking Jiri Hudler's request for a transfer card. He ...
IIHF reportedly denies Hudler transfer card
According to the Cult of Hockey (which referenced a Sovetski Sport article), the IIHF denied Jiri Hudler a transfer card. Since the transfer card is what allows players to play in IIHF-sanctioned game...
Red Wings make one-year offer to Todd Bertuzzi
According to Greg Brady's Twitter account (hat tip to Kukla's Korner), the Detroit Red Wings have offered former Wing Todd Bertuzzi a one-year deal worth $1.5 million. DRW has put a tasty 1-yr/1.5m o...
Jiri Hudler talks about the Red Wings
Thanks to a fantastic interview by Sovetsky Sport's Pavel Lysenkov (and translated by Dmitry Chesnokov, who also blogs for Puck Daddy), we know how the Wings and Jiri Hudler left things through this w...
Wings sign Jason Williams to one-year deal
Michael Zuidema of the Grand Rapids Press reports that former Wing Jason Williams has returned to the organization, inking a one-year deal today. Financial terms have yet to be released, but we'll be ...
Summer Fill: A few questions for the Tampa Bay Lightning
During the slow part of the off-season, some of us SBN hockey bloggers decided to pose questions to one another about the other bloggers' team whether it's on the ice or off the ice situations. The p...
Patrick Eaves signs one-year deal with Wings
The Detroit Red Wings have signed forward Patrick Eaves to a one-year deal worth $500,000 per Bruce MacLeod of The Macomb Daily. Eaves' salary is $500,000 ... which makes this a marvelous signi...
Hudler awarded $5.75 million in arbitration
The Jiri Hudler saga has finally come to an end -- thank goodness! And as has been typical in this situation, it wasn't your straight forward arbitration hearing either. According to Ansar Khan at MLi...
Evaluating Stays in Motown: Marian Hossa
Marian Hossa, RW Year Games Goals Assists Points +/- PIM 07-08 74 40 31 71 +27 63 How he came to Detroit: Everyone knows the story here. Hossa left the Penguins following the 2008 Stanley Cu...
Quick Hits on July 30
There always seems to be some sort of tiny piece of news to talk about this off-season regarding Detroit, but there has yet to be something really exciting to discuss yet. As a result, WIM has compile...
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