Rumors: Stamkos, Lightning, Carlyle, and Compensation
On the Lightning and Steven Stamkos ... Luke Fox of Sportsnet: Sportnet's Mark Spector mentioned this week that the Flames spoke with the Lightning about Steven Stamkos. “The Flames would be willing to deal a top young player, perhaps Sam Bennett, to…
Top 10 Best NHL Contracts: Rankings 6 to 10
To blatantly borrow from my intro to my “Worst” article – I’m a salary nerd. When I was asked to write about the top 10 best and worst contracts, I thought it would be a piece of cake. Silly me.…
Rumors and Notes: Stamkos, Kruger, McDonagh, and Babcock
Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet: The biggest hurdle with regards to the Tampa Bay Lightning and Steven Stamkos is the expected salary cap hit in the $10.5 million range. GM Steve Yzerman, agent Don Meehan or Stamkos are not talking about…
Rumors III: Bruins, Leafs, Stars and Ducks
Joe Haggerty of CSNNE: The Boston Bruins are on Phil Kessel's list of teams that he'd accept a trade too. Would the Bruins be interested? Kneejerk answer is not a chance. Sources saying the Leafs want to quickly move Kessel…
Injuries: Miller, Palat, Islanders, Blue Jackets, Voracek and More
Luke Fox of Sportsnet: Ryan Miller's agent, Mike Liut, on the radio yesterday. “He is not behind schedule; he is on schedule,” Miller’s agent, Mike Liut told Vancouver’s News 1130 Thursday. “As I told you two weeks ago, goalies take…
Injuries: Stars, Avs, Wings, Blues, Rangers, Lightning and more
Tom Layberger of the Dallas Morning News: Stars defenseman John Klingberg suffered a lower-body injury against the Lightning on Saturday. He played through it, but left Tuesday's game with an upper-body injury in the third period after taking a hit…
Injuries: Orpik, Green, Palat, Luongo, Avs, Blues, Sabres and More
Chuck Gormley: Capitals Brooks Orpik is dealing with a lower-body injury and Mike Green is dealing with an upper-body injury. Alex Prewitt: Green is considered day-to-day. Erik Erlendsson: Lightning's Ondrej Palat left last night's game with a lower-body injury. Head…
Injuries: Blues, Pens, Jets, Lightning, Coyotes, Sens and Sabres
Tom Timmermann of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Blues Carl Gunnarsson has been cleared to play. He suffered a concussion on December 6th from an elbow by Islanders Anders Lee. “He’s cleared head-wise and now it’s conditioning-wise,” Hitchcock said. “How he conditions…
NHL Rumors III: More on Taylor Hall
Jim Matheson: Wouldn't trade Taylor Hall, but this is the Oilers and they've traded Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier, Jari Kurri, Paul Coffey, Grant Fuhr and Kevin Lowe. Dennis Bernstein: A team that is in 30th overall shouldn't have any untouchable.…
Injuries: Leafs, Avs, Sens, Pens, Lightning and Blackhawks
James Mirtle: Maple Leafs assistant GM Kyle Dubas on Leo Komarov's concussion: "Once his symptoms are gone then we'll start the return to play protocol and progress from there." James Mirtle: It will be the middle of December at the earliest…
Injuries: Wild, Ducks, Jackets, Lightning, Bruins and Blackhawks
Michael Russo of the Star Tribune: Jonas Brodin and Marco Scandella are feared to have the mumps. Keith Ballard had missed eight games and has said that he had the mumps. Christian Frolin missed five games with similar symptoms. Several…
NHL Rumors I: Bruins, Ducks, Blue Jackets and Wild
Joe Haggerty of CSNNE: Things are quiet regarding Torey Krug and the Bruins. Krug and Reilly Smith don't have a lot of leverage as they are coming off their entry level deals with no arbitration rights and are not able…