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Who will rise to the visor challenge in Tampa Bay?
The Tampa Bay Lightning's 2011-12 training camp is looming. Players are already practicing together in Brandon at the Ice Sports Forum, while the official start of training camp will be two-weeks from now. It's worth a reminder that there is a forthcoming challenge to Lightning players, handed...
Ken Holland's Draft Success
Jonathan Willis recently penned an article on the Detroit Red Wings' development model and how the Oilers could reshape their model to match Detroit's success. One passage caught my eye: The really interesting thing is that Detroit really hasn’t found a lot of NHL’ers in the draft. ...
Tuesdays with Dani: Replica jersey giveaway tonight
The Lightning are giving away a replica jersey to the first 5000 fans who show up in Lightning gear to tonight's game. If you aren't going already, that's a pretty good reason to me to go to tonight's game. Lightning links: Ryan Dixon of The Hockey News on Coach Boucher being a go-for-broke kind...
Tuesdays with Dani: Lightning stay quiet at the deadline
Like Ken Holland with the Detroit Red Wings, Steve Yzerman decided to just take yesterday off. Maybe he slept in late, or did some touristy things in NYC perhaps, with his extra free time. In the end, the Lightning stayed quiet at trade deadline day while the rest of Southeast Division made some...
Five Years of Panthers Draft Picks - Round Seven
In building up to June's NHL Entry Draft, this series will look at Florida's performance in each round - from seventh to first - covering the five Drafts from 2005 through 2009, along with any players of note selected after the Panthers' pick(s) in the same round. As would be expected, the seventh...
Ilitch attempts a staff shuffling in order to keep Yzerman
Interesting bits of information about Red Wings owner Mike Ilitch trying to shuffle staff in Detroit in order to keep Steve Yzerman with the franchise. Yzerman, of course, is thought to be the leading candidate for the Lightning general manger role: "Stevie Y wants to become a GM; we'd love to...
Testing Ken Holland
Last year, Tyler over at mc79hockey.com included a quote by Red Wings GM Ken Holland in an article he wrote about the goaltending market: My feeling is if you can get one of the five or six best goalies in the league you can spend the money. We can’t get into those guys, and the difference...
New Jersey Devils News and notes, March 5, 2009
Check out last night's update NEW JERSEY DEVILSClemmensen not going anywhere - (The Bergen Record)New Jersey Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello never wavers from winning formula - (The Star Ledger)No more Devil deals - (The New York Post)Devils get deeper - (FOXSports.com)NHL Standings -...
Zetterberg signs 12-year, $73 million contract
Congrats to the 28% of those WIM readers who voted that the Detroit Red Wings would re-sign Henrik Zetterberg by the end of January. At a 2 p.m. press conference today (which you can watch on the Wings website), the Wings announced that they have re-signed Hank to a 12-year, $73 million contract....
Wings close to signing Zetterberg to contract extension
According to the Detroit Free Press, the Detroit Red Wings are close to signing forward Henrik Zetterberg to a contract extension. So what does this mean for us? First, we get the comfort of knowing that this talented athlete wants to stay in Detroit for quite some time. Many believe, myself...
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