Morning Hits: PTOs, Torres, Ritchie, Roy and Spotters
Eric Stephens: The Ducks have invited Sheldon Brookbank and Vitaly Vishnevski to training camp. Roger Millions: The Flames have invited defenseman Douglas Murray to training camp on a PTO. Roger Millions: The Flames have invited defenseman Aaron Johnson to training…
Morning Hits: Maple Leafs, Capitals, Kings, Lightning and Devils
Kevin McGran: MLSE's Tim Leiweke: “There are players we have in our org today whose numbers are off the chart good + whose character is just terrible.” Pierre LeBrun: In an email, Leiweke said that he was talking about players…
Quick Hits: Leafs, Carter, Alfie, PTOs, Robidas and Maatta
Steve Simmons of the Toronto Sun: Simmons thinks that Randy Carlyle has about a 40 game window to improve the Leafs or he could be out of job, regardless of the extension. David Clarkson will get a shot to be…
Garrioch’s Rumor Roundup … Kick-starting a Flames Rebuild … Canucks Knew About O’Reilly Waiver Issue
Bruce Garrioch of the Ottawa Sun: On the Flames offer sheet to Ryan O'Reilly, "Calgary should have known (the Avs) were going to match it no matter what," said a league insider Friday. "By doing this, what they've done is…
Decisions for Kessel and Leafs … Bruins to talk extension with Rask … GMGM talks with ownership … Starting goalies
James Mirtle of the Globe and Mail: Maple Leafs Phil Kessel finally scored his 1st goal of the season on Thursday, and now things are brewing as to what will happen regarding his contract. He'll be a free agent after…
Trade Rumors involving the Islanders, Flames, Kings and Maple Leafs
Arthur Staple of Newsday: Islanders GM Garth Snow said he received an email from Nino Niederreiter's Swiss agent, Andre Rufener and asked for a trade. A source said that Snow has no plans to trade Niederreiter. Rufener declined to comment.…
Trade Rumors: Luongo, Oilers, Blackhawks, Capitals, Niederreiter, Subban and Flames
David Ebner of the Globe and Mail: So the Canucks have said they have "two No. 1s" in net and their GM has a potential deal in place. “Would you not say I have two No. 1s right now?” said…
The Flames missed the playoffs for a 3rd straight year … Is change coming?
Wes Gilbertson of the Calgary Sun: Flames head coach Brent Sutter takes the blame for Flames missing the playoffs for the 3rd straight year, though he hinted that there is plenty of blame to go around. “I don’t really want…
State of the Calgary Flames: NHL Trade Deadline Edition
Written by Ryan Pike of The Hockey Writers and can be found on twitter at @RyanNPike. Heading into this year's trade deadline, the Calgary Flames sit in largely the same position they have been over the last few seasons: not…
Quick notes on Nash, Yzerman, Backstrom, Senators, Skinner, Weber, Mueller, Nugent-Hopkins, Steen and a couple starting goalies
Pierre LeBrun via twitter: Blue Jackets GM Scott Howson regarding Rick Nash: "Our position on Rick has not changed.'' ... meaning he doesn't want to trade him. Erik Erlendsson via twitter: Lightning GM Steve Yzerman was in Calgary watching the…
Fantasy hockey news, injury updates, starting goalies, and waivers
Bob McKenzie via twitter: The Ducks put Ben Maxwell on waivers. The Coyotes put Patrick O'Sullivan on waivers. Nick Kypreos via twitter: Predators forward Jordan Tootoo will have a hearing at 5 PM EST for hit running over of Ryan…