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This is the place to do all the 07/08 Free Agent talking....

So let's start things off.

Where do you all think Cristobal Huet will be?? Or if Mike Green will get signed in time for the deadline??:oops:



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6/24
Carolina has re-signed Tuomo Ruutu to a one-year, $2.25 million deal
Nashville TRADES Janne Niskala to Philadelphia for Triston Grant and a 2009 7th round pick
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6/25
Marty Sertich (acquired from Dallas 6/10) has re-signed with Colorado...
Scott Parker has signed a one-year deal with Colorado...
Hendry and Hambly re-sign with Chicago...
Brian McGratton to Phoenix for 5th round pick in 2009...
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6/26
Florida re-signs Greg Campbell
Canucks claim Kyle Wellwood off waivers
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6/27
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6/28
Stars sign Loui Eriksson to a 2 year deal worth $3.2 million
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6/29
Lightning sign Ryan Malone to a 7 year contract worth $31 million
Flyers sign Steve Eminger to a 1 year contract
Avalanche Sign John Michael Liles to a 4 year contract worth $16 million (?)
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6/30
Edmonton trades Jarret Stoll and Matt Greene to Los Angeles for Lubomir Visnovsky
Flyers Trade Kyle Greentree to Flames for Tim Ramholt
Flyers Resign Jeff Carter to multi year deal
Avalanche sign Adam Foote to a 2 year contract
Sharks Re-Sign Left Wing Jody Shelley
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7/1
Sabres signed Paul Gaustad 4 years $9.2 million
Mike Green resigns with Washington 4yrs 21 mill
Bryce Salvador resigns with New Jersey 3yrs 12 mill
Brule to Edmonton for Torres
Red Wings sign Brad Stuart to 4 years $15(?) million
Rene Bourque (Chicago) to the Flames for a future 2nd rounder
Pitkanen to the Canes for Cole
Curtis Joseph signs with Toronto 1 year $700,000
Corey Perry Re Signs with the Ducks. 5 years $26.25 million
Penguins sign Pascal Dupuis to a 3-year deal.
Anton Babchuk signs with Carolina. 1yr/1M.
Bruins sign Blake Wheeler.
Flyers trade Denis Gauthier and a second round choice in 2010 to LA for Patrik Hersley and Ned Lukacevic
Mark Eaton signed with the pens for 2yrs and 2mill
Capitals sign Jose Theodore to 2 years $9 million
Blackhawks sign Cristobal Huet to 4 years $5.625 million per year
Lightning sign Olie Kolzig
Ottawa signs Alex Auld
The Vancouver Canucks have signed RFA David Backes
Darcy Tucker with Colorado 2 year/4.5 million
Kurt Sauer with Phoenix 4 years 1.75 million per year
Andrew Brunette with Minnesota.. Undisclosed
Ty Conkin with Detroit 1 year $700,000
Mark Eaton with Pittsburgh.. 2 years
Jeff Finger with Toronto 4 years $3.5 millin per year
Andrei Kostitsyn with Montreal 3 years $3.25 million per year
Andrew Raycroft with Colorado 1 year $800,000
Cory Stillman with Florida 4 years, $4.53 million per year
Patrick LaLime with Buffalo 2 years $1 million per year
Aaron Voros with the Rangers... Undisclosed
Eric Godard with Pittsburgh 3 years
Adam Hall with Tampa Bay 3 years, $600,000 per year
Brian Campbell with Chicago 8 years $7.14 million per year
Todd Fedoruk with Phoenix 3 years $1,058,333 per year
David Clarkson with New Jersey.. Undisclosed
Barrk Tallackson with New Jersey Undisclosed
Bobby Holik with New Jersey 1 year $2.5 million
Brian Rolston with New Jersey 4 years $5 million per year
Niklas Hagman with Toronto.. Undisclosed
Darcy Hordichuk with Vancouver 3 years
Glen Metropolit with Philadelphia 2 years
Nate Raduns with Philadelphia 1 year
Ossi Vaananen with Philadelphia 1 year $1 million
Mike Commodore with Coloumbus 5 years $3.75 million per year
Wade Redden with New York Rangers 6 years $6.5 million per year
Patrick Rissmiller with New York Rangers.. Undisclosed
Mark Streit with New York Islanders 5 years $4.1 million per year
Michael Ryder with Boston 3 years $4 million per year
Steve Valiquette with New York Rangers Undisclosed
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7/2
David Backes with St. Louis 3 years $2.5 million per season
Michal Rozsival with New York Rangers 4 years $5 million per season
Ryan Craig with Tampa Bay 2 years
Ryan Johnson with Vancouver 2 years $1.15 million per year
Janne Niskala with Tampa Bay 1 year
Graham Mink with Washington Undisclosed
Tyler Sloan with Washington Undisclosed
Josef Melichar Carolina 1 year $1 million
Wade Brookbank with Carolina 1 year $475,000
Joni Pitkanen with Carolina 3 years $4 million per year
Jim Vandermeer with Calgary... Undisclosed
Anton Babchuk with Carolina 1 year $1 million
Curtis Sanford with Vancouver 1 year $650,00
Marian Hossa with Detroit 1 year $7.45 million
Sean Avery with Dallas 4 years $3.87 million per year
Curtis Glencross with Calgary 3 years $1.3 million per year
Petteri Nokelainen with Boston 2 years $850,000 per year
Alexandre Bolduc with Vancouver... Undisclosed
Nolan Baumgartner with Vancouver... Undisclosed
Shean Donovan with Ottawa 2 years $625,000 per year
Ron Hainsey with Atlanta 5 years $4.5 million per year
Jarkko Ruutu with Ottawa 3 years $1.3 million per year
Kurtis Foster with Minnesota 1 year $1.025 million
Wojtek Wolski with Colorado 2 years $2.8 million per year
Yann Danis with New York Islanders 1 year (2 Way deal)
Brooks Orpik with Pittsburgh 6 years $3.75 million per year
B.J. Crombeen with Dallas 1 year (2 way contract)
Doug Weight with New York Islanders 1 year $1.75 million
Randy Jones with Philadelphia 2 years $2.75 million per year
Riley Cote with Philadelphia 3 years $550,000 per year
Drew Fata with Phoenix... Undisclosed
Derek Nesbitt with Phoenix... Undisclosed
Al Montoya with Phoenix... Undisclosed
David Spina with Phoenix... Undisclosed
Kristian Huselius with Coloumbus 3 years $4.75 million per year
**Trade**Coloumbus gets: Fedor Tyutin & Christian Backman
New York Rangers gets: Nikolai Zherdev & Dan Fritsche
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7/3
Keith Aucoin with Washington 2 years
David Koci with Tampa Bay 1 year
Miroslav Satan with Pittsburgh 1 year $3.5 million
Ruslan Fedotenko with Pittsburgh 1 year $2.25 million
Alex Henry with Montreal 1 year... Undisclosed
**Trade**Toronto gets: Mikhail Grabovski
Montreal gets: Greg Pateryn & 2010 2nd round pick
Georges Laraque with Montreal 3 years $1.5 million per year
Markus Naslund with New York Rangers $4 million per year
Dmitri Kalinin with New York Rangers 1 year $2.1 million
Rob Blake with San Jose 1 year $5 million
Antti Miettinen with Minnesota 3 years
Brian McGrattan with Phoenix 1 year
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7/4
Matt Jones with Phoenix 1 year $550,000
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7/5
Matt Cooke with Pittsburgh 2 years $1.2 million per year
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7/6
Owen Nolan with Minnesota 2 years $2.75 million per year
Dennis Seidenberg with Carolina 1 year $1.2 million
Matt Stajan with Toronto 2 years $1.75 million per year
Todd Bertuzzi with Calgary 1 year $1.95 million
Arron Asham with New Jersey 1 year Undisclosed
R.J. Umberger with Coloumbus 4 years $3.75 million per year
David LeNeveu with Anaheim 1 year Undisclosed

I haven't heard much Huet discussion, but I'm hoping Edmonton makes a bid. Garon/Roloson did okay last season, but Roli isn't getting any better, and I can't help but think that Garon's first season as an Oiler may not be repeated. What did he ever do prior to last year?

Now that my homerism is out of the way, there are a lot of teams that will likely be interested in both. LA still has a goalie issue, as does Tampa (sorry, Mike Smith isn't the answer), so I could see both teams go hard for Huet.

Any chance he'll resign with us?? If he doesn't we're basically screwed in the goalie department. Brent Johnson won't do.

Huet's gotta week.. and apparently discussions were very back and forth according to Tarik's blog.

I think Green is going to play hardball... rightfully so

zeus3007 Wrote:I haven't heard much Huet discussion, but I'm hoping Edmonton makes a bid. Garon/Roloson did okay last season, but Roli isn't getting any better, and I can't help but think that Garon's first season as an Oiler may not be repeated. What did he ever do prior to last year?

Now that my homerism is out of the way, there are a lot of teams that will likely be interested in both. LA still has a goalie issue, as does Tampa (sorry, Mike Smith isn't the answer), so I could see both teams go hard for Huet.

I disagree with the Mike Smith comment. He's a very good goalie. Unfortunately he has to prove it on Tampa.

Huet should be a hot commodity during free agency. It seems that Washington is serious about being a contender and they've obviously shown faith in Huet. So while it's up to him, it appears at face value that Washington would be a good fit for him. But he did start off in the LA Kings organization, so perhaps that may become a natural path for him to take.

zeus3007 Wrote:I haven't heard much Huet discussion, but I'm hoping Edmonton makes a bid. Garon/Roloson did okay last season, but Roli isn't getting any better, and I can't help but think that Garon's first season as an Oiler may not be repeated. What did he ever do prior to last year?

Now that my homerism is out of the way, there are a lot of teams that will likely be interested in both. LA still has a goalie issue, as does Tampa (sorry, Mike Smith isn't the answer), so I could see both teams go hard for Huet.

To the OP: If this ends up being the official free agency thread (usually we get about 4 of these in the week before July 1st will you be editing the top page with all the signings so people don't have to sift through 39 pages of me being Beckett's Pierre McGuire? I find that to be the most effective way so people can find information they want fast and not create additional threads that Trish just has to lock anyway)...

Anyway, Mike Green and the Caps are no where close right now...and I expect this to be hashed out after July 1st...it might take an offer sheet for Washington to come to terms with him...

As for Cristobal Huet, I've heard that negotiations are ongoing and making progress, but they are still a long way off...

to Zeus - Garon is a really good goalie, I thought he showed that in the minors and throughout his time in Los Angeles and Montreal...but maybe that's just me...I always held him in high regard though...

Los Angeles does not have a goalie issue, I wish people would stop saying that...they have enough parts there to make something, LaBarbera is a solid goalie, Ersberg was very good down the stretch and Ron Hextall said that he'll be given a chance to win a spot on the team, Jeff Zatkoff has progressed very well at Miami of Ohio and of course Jonathan Bernier may be ready to go this year...there'd be no point in grabbing any sort of a UFA goalie on a long-term deal or anything like that...

Tampa Bay just got Mike Smith, and in my eyes, he projects to be a starting goalie, he has a pretty good tool set in my opinion and has really impressed me in Dallas, Iowa, Houston and Tampa Bay...plus they have Karri Ramo and Riku Helenius on the way...I could see maybe grabbing a goalie, but ownership doesn't have the deepest pockets and they still are paying Marc Denis in the minors...

I have a feeling that Atlanta is going after either Brian Campbell or Mike Green.

Also...

With a total disregard for what may or may not be best for the team...

Brendan Shanahan to the Habs...ONE TIME DEALER!!!!!!

digitalmonkey Wrote:I have a feeling that Atlanta is going after either Brian Campbell or Mike Green.

I'm not sure about that, Atlanta is prone to stupid mistakes, but they aren't prone to spending big time money...I can't see a perpetually rebuilding team dump four 1st round picks and $6.5 million on Mike Green...and Brian Campbell probably would have to want to be there to sign there...he says he wants to live close to his home in Buffalo if at all possible...the Rangers have been given permission to speak with his agent (amongst a couple other Eastern Conference teams)...so we'll see how that goes...

I also believe I heard some talk that Shanahan was gonna retire and become an assistant coach with the Rangers, but now that Perry Pearn probably isn't leaving, I guess that's not happening...that also could have been a weird dream, so don't hold me to it...