Bobby Ryan Needed To Be Traded

After loosing their captain Daniel Alfredsson,  the Ottawa Senators needed a new star player who could jump into their top line immediately.  So the Ottawa Senators made a trade to get young star Bobby Ryan.  Bobby Ryan is a pure goal scorer, and that's what Ottawa needs.  They finished 27th in goals for in the regular season, that's behind the Colorado Avalanche and the Tampa Bay Lightning.


But after all that, fans still can't believe that their franchise player and longtime captain Daniel Alfredsson has left and signed with now division rival Detroit.  That's right, after the conference re-alignment that had Detroit move to the east and Winnipeg move to the West, Detroit and Ottawa are now Division D rivals.  So Alfredsson hasn't left yet Ottawa fans, you will just be seeing him scoring goals for Detroit now.


Bobby Ryan was drafted (Behind Sidney Crosby) second overall in the 2005 NHL entry draft, by the The Mighty Ducks Of Anaheim.  Ryan had 5 goals and 10 points in 23 games, in his first season with the Ducks.  Bobby Ryan was traded  from Anaheim to Ottawa for Jakub Silfverberg, Stefan Noesen, and Ottawa's first round draft pick in the 2014 NHL entry draft.

Montreal Signs Ryan White

The Montreal Canadians have signed forward Ryan white, white (age 25) is known for his fighting skill and pest-like play.

White signed a one year $700 thousand dollar contracts with the Canadians, where he has spent his entire career.

He was drafted by Montreal in the third round 66th overall in the 2006 NHL Entry draft and made his NHL debut November 5th, 2009 with an assist.

Bruins Sign Bergeron

The Boston Bruins have signed playoff-star Patrice Bergeron.  Bergeron played game 5 in the playoffs last season, with a broken rib and a punctured lung.  Even though the Bruins didn't win the Stanley Cup, they came one game within it.  


Bergerons contract is very good for the Bruins cap-space, an 8 year $52 million dollar contract ( $6.5 million dollars per year )


Bergeron has spent his entire career with the bruins and he had 9 goals and 15 points in 22 games with the Bruins in the playoffs last season.

Kovalchuk Retires

At the age of 30 Ilya Kovalchuk has retired from the New Jersey Devils.  Kovalchuk had just signed a big and had 12 years and $77 million dollars left on his contract.  It is not often a player leaves the NHL in his prime, but on this case he is going home to go play in the KHL (Kontinental Hockey League) back in Russia.  

Kovalchuk was traded from Atlanta (Now Winnipeg) to New Jersey  for Johnny Oduya, Niclas Bergfors, Patrice Cormier, and a first round draft pick in 2010 (That pick got traded later on to Chicago).

Jagr Signing In Carolina?

It is rumored that 41 year old Jaromir Jagr is joining the Carolina Hurricanes.  Jagr was traded from Dallas to Boston at the trade deadline, in exchange for a second round pick and two prospects.  Jagr didn't have any goals, but had 10 assist in 22 playoff games for the Bruins last season.  Being 41 he may retire this season or next, but the Hurricanes could use that kind of veteran player on their team.

Edmonton Needs A Captain

After trading away their captain to Dallas for a prospect and a late draft pick Edmonton doesn't have a captain.  The most likely candidate for Edmonton's captain spot would be Taylor Hall.  Taylor hall got the assistant captain job and notched 16 goals and 50 points in 45 games with the Oilers last season.

Hall showed a a lot of leadership last year, after he got cut by a skate blade in warm-up for a game against the Columbus Bluejackets, he went off for 30 stitches just above his eye and only missed one game. 

Jordan Eberle is the only other person I can see getting captain status, he was the only other person who got the assistant captain role last year.

Free-Agent Frenzy

The Free-Agent market began yesterday, and NHL teams spent over $350 million dollars in contracts.  Players like Mike Ribeiro, Jerome Iginla, and David Clarkson all said goodbye to their previous teams and signed with new ones.  Daniel Alfredsson left his career team Ottawa to Join Detroit, and than Ottawa traded Jakub Silfverberg and a first round draft pick to the Anaheim Ducks for Bobby Ryan.  The Winnipeg Jets aquired Devin Setaguchi from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for a second round draft pick, in this years NHL draft.

Dallas Edmonton Trade

The Dallas Stars and the Edmonton Oilers made a trade today: Dallas gets Horcoff and Edmonton gets a draft pick.  The Dallas Stars are already acquiring another center,  Stars GM Jim Nill is not wasting any time at rebuilding this team, as he has already acquired Tyler Seguin and Rich Peverly from the Boston Bruins.  The Oilers should be glad to get rid of the $5.5 million dollar cap hit on his contract, and still get a draft pick in return.

Wild Sign Ballard

Keith Ballard was only a free-agent for 5 hours and the Minnesota Wild have already signed him.  Ballard was put on waivers and than bought-out by the Vancouver Canucks earlier today.


His new contract with the Wild see's him earn $1.5 million for 2 years.  Ballard (age 30) had no goals and 2 assists with the Vancouver Canucks last season

Canadians Sign Briere

I think that the Montreal Canadians have something about signing small players, this time it is forward Daniel Briere.  After being bought-out by Philadelphia, all 5 feet 10 inches of Briere is join the Montreal Canadians.

His new contract is for 2 years and worth $4.0 million dollars per year,  Briere (35) had 6 goals and 16 points in 34 games with the Flyers last season.

Briere is generally known for his amazing playoff performance, the Flyers didn't make it into the playoffs last year...but the Canadians did so you can see why he was happy to get away from the Flyers and onto the Canadians rooster.

Bruins And Stars Trade

The Boston Bruins and the Dallas Stars have made a trade today, the Bruins are sending Tyler Seguin, Ryan Button, and Rich Peverly To the Stars for Loui Eriksson and Prospects.

Seguin had 16 goals and 32 points in 48 games for the Bruins this year,  Peverly had 6 goals and 18 points in 47 games for the Bruins this year,  Eriksson has 12 goals and 29 points in 48 games for the Stars.

The prospects coming from Dallas are, Reilly Smith, Matt Fraser, and Joe Morrow (Who was just acquired from Pittsburgh in the Brenden Morrow trade).

Seguin didn't have great Playoffs with the B's and their was rumors floating around that he was going to be traded sometime at the NHL draft.

Leafs Buy-Out Grabovski

The Toronto Maple Leafs have more gaping holes in their rooster now.  The Leafs bought-out 29 year old Mikhail Grabovski today, although Grabovski didn't have many points with the Leafs this year, he played great for them.  It seems the reason for buying him out was the monster contract given to him by former General Manager of the Leafs Brian Burke. 

 A 5 year $5.5 million dollar contract and 16 points in 48 games will get you bought out, but normally teams will give it a year or two and not buy someone out in just the starting of the second year.

 The FreeAgentFrenzy is tomorrow and the leafs need to fill the third line, they have 12 players signed and  just over 24.5 million in cap space.

Florida Buys-Out Filip Kuba

As first reported by @TSNBobMcKenzie on Twitter, Florida has Bought-Out Filip Kuba.  Kuba (36) has a No-Movement-Claus in his contract so he does not have to go through the Waiver-Wire.

He had 1 goal and 10 points in 44 games, and was a -12 with the Panthers this season. he is now a Free-Agent.

Coyotes Staying In Phoenix

The Coyotes are staying in Phoenix. The city council had a meeting and they voted 4-3 to keep the hockey team in Phoenix. Eliminating the thought  that they would move to either Quebec City, or Seattle.

The Renaissance Sports Group (A Canadian company) signed a $225-million dollar lease for the arena, which will keep the team in Phoenix for 15 years.  

The coyotes were originally owned by the National Hockey League, and they were going to be moved if they couldn't find a owner by the end of this year.

Flyers Sign Lecavalier

The Philadelphia Flyers have signed forward Vincent Lecavalier. as first reported by Darran Drager, it is a contract for 5 years valued at 4.5$ per year.  The flyers are over the salary-cap again ($318,522), this time they could have avoided it. The Flyers already bought out Ilya Bryzgalov (in the second year of his nine year contract), and forward Danielle Briere.  Adding another center to the mix makes it difficult to test out rookie Centers Brayden Schenn, Sean Couturier, and Scott Laughton.  The flyers also need another goalie, adding another goalie in Free-Agency will make them even higher above the maximum salary-cap.  
The Flyers need to make a trade now, and when they make one they should trade for a goalie to either back-up Mason, or start for the Flyers.