- Jeff Neiburg of the Philadelphia Daily News: The Flyers have sent Andrew MacDonald to the AHL and GM Ron Hextall is having to deal with Vincent Lecavalier’s contract.
“The salary cap is hard,” Hextall said in an interview with the Daily News. “There’s no way around it, so you’ve got to stay within it. You always have to be cognizant of it. I can’t sit behind my desk and look at this year, or just this year and next year. I’ve got to look two, three, four years. As hard as it is to project where the salary cap’s going to be and what you’re going to have to pay certain players, I don’t want to get into a position where we’re forced to trade a young player. So you just have to constantly be on top of it.
“You have to constantly be monitoring where you’re at, where you think you’re going to be at in one year, two years, three years. There’s guys you’ve got to look at and say, ‘OK, in three years, this guy is up, or these four guys are up.’ And we better have some space. So you can’t make moves to help you – sign a guy to a long-term deal that might help you for a year or two, it’s going to hurt you in three or four years. We’re just not going to do that.”
- AP in USA Today: Devils owner Josh Harris said the team has no intentions of giving up futures to just to earn a couple more wins this year.
“We’re in a hurry,” he said. “I’m not a patient person. I have never been a patient person. I hate to lose, so when we lose I don’t have a good time. I want to win but I’m not willing to sacrifice our ultimate goal, which is to be an elite team by making short-term decisions on or off the ice that will inhibit our ability to consistently compete for the Stanley Cup.”
- Helene Elliott of the LA Times: Ducks owners Henry and Susan Samueli have cut their yearly losses down to “less double-digit millions” due to increased revenue and revenue sharing. Henry on profitability.
“is something to dream about. I think it’s not impossible for that to occur. As long as we can continue this steady climb it’s definitely possible and it’s certainly a goal, at least to get to break-even. A grand goal. If we get to break-even we’re all drinking champagne.”
