Official NHL 2005-2006 Season Thread

[Communist China]

Yea that logo fucking sucks. Give the thing legs and and I'll upgrade it to "kinda sucks".

[Neemo]

Also, the Sabres have a new jersey. For 16 home games next year they will wear the old retro blue and gold, and for the rest of the games they will wear a NEW blue and gold design. I've seen one possible design, it looks like a squirrel with horns. I hope it's not that one...

why do buffalo teams always use buffalo's? it's so predictable...actually use a sword for the logo...make it flashy and movement lines and shit

[Communist China]

Well, our shoulder logo is a sword. And the old, awesome, jerseys (which will always be the best) was a buffalo jumping over sabres, which is awesome.

[Malcolm]

Buffalo Agreed to terms with center Tim Connolly on a multi-year contract.

Detroit Signed goaltender Dominik Hasek to a one-year contract.

[Neemo]

Detroit Signed goaltender Dominik Hasek to a one-year contract.

Sonofabitch they shoulda signed Legace...fucking fuck

[Malcolm]

Buffalo Accepted an arbitrator's decision to award center Daniel Briere a one-year, $5 million contract.

Philly Acquired left wing Kyle Calder from the Chicago Blackhawks in exchange for center Michal Handzus.

Russian centre Evgeni Malkin has signed a new contract and will play in Russia for the 2006-2007 season, according to a report on the Magnitogorsk Metallurg website.  However, his agents are hopeful that he will be playing in the NHL soon, as J.P. Barry has told the Associated Press that Malkin has indicated his preference is to play in the NHL this season.

An NHL arbitrator has awarded Phoenix Coyotes forward Ladislav Nagy a one-year $3 million contract for the 2006-07 season.

[KeVoRkIaN]

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Flyers defenceman Eric Desjardins, the second-highest scoring defenceman in team history, will retire this week, a team spokesman said Wednesday.

Flyers spokesman Zack Hill said the 37-year-old Desjardins, a native of Rouyn, Que., was going to make an official announcement Thursday.

A two-time all-star, Desjardins' 17-year career was slowed by injuries in recent seasons. He played only 45 games last season and just 48 two years ago and was not offered a contract by the Flyers this summer.

Desjardins, a seven-time winner of the team's most outstanding defenceman award, had surgery last season to repair a partially dislocated right shoulder and missed 29 games. He missed the 2004 playoffs with a broken arm.

Desjardins spent the last 11 seasons with the Flyers after he was acquired from Montreal in a 1995 deal that also brought John LeClair to Philadelphia. Desjardins had 396 points with the Flyers behind only defenceman Mark Howe's 480.

 

Desjardins finishes his career with 136 goals, 439 assists and 575 points in 1,143 career games. He was eighth in career games played with the Flyers with 738. He won the Stanley Cup with Montreal in 1993.

[Malcolm]

St.Louis signed Manny Legace

[Neemo]

St.Louis signed Manny Legace

I'm still mad

[KeVoRkIaN]

Yeah - bad move by Detroit... Legacy was their future, Hasek is their past.

[Malcolm]

Evgeni Malkin has yet to play one shift in the National Hockey League, but for the moment he is the NHL's most intriguing story.

Malkin has officially sent his resignation to Metallurg Magnitogorsk.  The team's head coach Dave King told the FAN 590 in Toronto on Wednesday morning that a fax was received by the team that indicated Malkin was exercising his "two-week window rights" to resign. Russian law allows any employee to leave an employer, even while under contract, simply by giving two weeks notice.

Malkin's whereabouts is not currently known.  However, sources tell TSN he is not in Canada and it is believed he will be escorted out of Europe by one of his representatives and into the United States within the next 24 hours.   Upon arrival in the United States his location will be exposed and the entire saga, including Malkin's reasons behind his sudden change of heart, will be made public.

The pressure on the 20-year-old Malkin has been immense.  A Russian source close to Malkin alleges team officials swarmed his car recently and followed him home in an effort to encourage him to agree to a new deal.

[Malcolm]

Owen Nolan and the Phoenix Coyotes have made his employment with the team official. Nolan signed a one-year contract with the Coyotes on Wednesday.

''A healthy Owen Nolan can help our hockey club,'' said Coyotes general manager Michael Barnett. ''After considerable due diligence, we've found his injuries to be well healed. He's fit, focused and anxious to get back battling on NHL ice.''

Tuesday, Coyotes doctors received the final medical verification Nolan is ready to return to the National Hockey League from a rigorous rehab on an injured knee.

[Mal Brossard]

Weird, Hasek hated Detroit (or at least refused to put his autograph on any Detroit items) and now has returned.  Maybe he just hated having Bowman as a coach (god knows I would).

Malkin was last seen in Finland, where Metallurg had its training camp.  Heard he's in either Canada or the US, likely hanging out with Sergei Gonchar or Alexander Ovechkin.  Coming next week on "As The Penguins Turn"...

So far, two players have gotten out of Russia with no transfer payment, even after lawsuits-- Ovechkin and Nikolai Zherdev of Columbus, not to mention all the defections back in the early 1990's.  So I wouldn't be too worried about the amoke Russia is blowing.  If they don't like it, they should have signed the transfer agreement.  Those greedy commie bastards.

[Neemo]

Heard he's in either Canada or the US, likely hanging out with Sergei Gonchar or Alexander Ovechkin.? Coming next week on "As The Penguins Turn"...

maybe Mario has him "sleeping over" like he did with Crosby Lemieux likes his young guns

[Mal Brossard]

It's official!

Evgeni Malkin...




Is in Los Angeles right now.

[Neemo]

It's official!

Evgeni Malkin...




Is in Los Angeles right now.

yeah i saw that last night...he's seeking legal advice on how to join the pens or something

[Malcolm]

PITTSBURGH (AP) -Now that Hall of Famer Mario Lemieux has retired again, the Pittsburgh Penguins are moving on behind another big star.

General manager Ray Shero and coach Michel Therrien must decide whether 19-year-old Sidney Crosby - the team's best player and the face of the franchise - should wear the "C" as the team captain at the Oct. 5 opener against Philadelphia.

Other possible choices include forwards Mark Recchi and John LeClair. But they are not the big scorers they once were, and both have spent most of their careers with other teams.

Crosby, making an unannounced appearance Tuesday at the Penguins youth camp, said he wouldn't turn down the "C" but won't campaign for it.

"If one day whoever makes that decision decides they'd like me to have it, it would be a huge honor," said Crosby, designated by Therrien as an alternate captain immediately after the coach was hired in December. "But, at the same time, it's something you have to earn. That's not something you take lightly. For me it's my second year, so it's not something you're thinking about. I'm working on improving myself as a player and a person, and that's all I really worry about."

Crosby acknowledged he and Recchi had issues before the 17-season veteran was traded to Stanley Cup champion Carolina. Apparently, Recchi felt Crosby was too vocal and demonstrative about calls that didn't go his way, especially for a rookie. The two since have talked, and Crosby said he welcomes Recchi's return.

[Communist China]

Crosby is a young punk and a whiner. Not a captain.

[Mal Brossard]

Crosby is a young punk and a whiner. Not a captain.

Damn straight!

Give the C to Recchi, A's to Crosby and Gonchar.

[Malcolm]

Not related to the Nhl but hockey news

Captain Cassie Campbell announced her retirement from the Canadian women's hockey team Wednesday. The 32 year old, the only Canadian hockey player to captain a national team to two Olympic gold medals, had 32 goals and 68 assists in 157 career games for the national team.