The Hockey Talk Thread - Summer 2011 edition!!!

[PhillyPuckNut]

Just watched the introductory press conference with Voracek, Simmonds, and Schenn. Holmgren seems positive that Schenn will play on the Flyers this season.

Some things I thought were interesting.

Former Flyer Petr Svoboda is Voracek's representative.
Both Simmonds and Schenn had MRIs and are meeting with doctors at 2pm est today.
Press Conference only lasted 8 minutes with very few questions. 1 for Voracek, 2 for Simmonds, 2 for Schenn, 1 for Holmgren.

 

[pghbuccos]

Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe and Joe Nieuwendyk were all selected as 2011 Hockey Hall of Fame inductees today.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=567567&navid=mod-rr-headlines

 

[stu]

Great news for Eddie and Nieuwy.

 

[pghbuccos]

I posted this in the FA thread but wanted to post it here as well...

NHL teams are now free to contact agents Don Meehan and Mark Guy to negotiate offer sheets for RFA Steven Stamkos.

which teams do you think will send an offer sheet and for how much money?

 

[KC37]

Ed Belfour, Doug Gilmour, Mark Howe and Joe Nieuwendyk were all selected as 2011 Hockey Hall of Fame inductees today.

http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=567567&navid=mod-rr-headlines

How the hell is Pat Burns STILL not on this list?

 

[PhillyPuckNut]

I posted this in the FA thread but wanted to post it here as well...

NHL teams are now free to contact agents Don Meehan and Mark Guy to negotiate offer sheets for RFA Steven Stamkos.

which teams do you think will send an offer sheet and for how much money?

Could literally be anybody except the teams that ride real close to the cap. I've come to grips that he's not coming to the Flyers so I won't mention them. I'd like to see him go to Calgary, Edmonton, or Winnipeg if he doesn't resign with the Bolts.

 

[lumm0x]

Happy for Mark Howe. He was a favorite growing up. Underrated d-man for sure.

 

[pghbuccos]

ROOT Sports just showed this guy during the Pirates @ Blue Jays game...

 

[jeff550]

Was going thorugh some old files and found some pictures from caps practice that I took, I am uploading them now and will post the when they are uploaded. There were some decent ones in there

link to the photos, will get a post up later

http://s717.photobucket.com/albums/ww17 ... %20Photos/

 

[matchpenalty]

Luxury Suite is live.....anybody interested in anything in it

 

[pghbuccos]

Luxury Suite is live.....anybody interested in anything in it

MAF singles as always and some random Pens cards.

 

[PhillyPuckNut]

Luxury Suite is live.....anybody interested in anything in it

Schenn and Bobrovsky rookies and anything Briere and Giroux.

 

[matchpenalty]

First good LS box break I've seen. G$ will like it...
http://www.youtube.com/user/chri5784#p/u/0/lrXbR0cdRAc

 

[pghbuccos]

[strike:w0goghs7]Washington Capitals goalie Semyon Varlamov is headed to the KHL.[/strike:w0goghs7]

Varlamov was traded to the Colorado Avalanche on July 1st. the Caps received a 1st and 2nd round pick in exchange.

Paul Kariya announced his retirement today.

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=370372

 

[Junior Griffey]

Just saw that Jagr signed a 1 year deal with Philly. How has he done the last few years overseas?

 

[PhillyPuckNut]

Just saw that Jagr signed a 1 year deal with Pittsburgh. How has he done the last few years overseas?

Actually, he signed with Philly for $3.3mil and I don't know how he did in the KHL. I heard he was good on the powerplay.

 

[matchpenalty]

If you like lazy older selfish players. Jagr still has game. I give it 6 weeks into the season and Flyers fans will want to run this guy out of town.

 

[matchpenalty]

Puck nut. You hearing any BOB trade rumors. With what Caps got for Varly, you would think Bob could get a nice return.

 

[PhillyPuckNut]

Puck nut. You hearing any BOB trade rumors. With what Caps got for Varly, you would think Bob could get a nice return.

All I've heard about Bob was that some armchair GMs think the Flyers should dangle him out there in the trading pool and see who will bite so they can get a winger.

He's a relatively low cap hit, has ability, and can only get better. Having him back up Bryzgalov could be the best thing for his career.

 

[Junior Griffey]

Yeah, I meant Philly, not sure why I typed in Pittsburgh.