GM Game #7 by 79AM, RR, and IR4

[TLinden]

Sign C John Madden to a 2 year contract.

Madden will slot into our 3rd line with Curtis Glencross and David Moss, although a spot on that line will be contested by Greg Nemisz in training camp as well.



Here is where I ask the advice of my fellow GM's.

Do I spend approx. 1.6 M on a forward upgrade for my bottom six

Glencross-Madden-Moss
Dawes-Neidermayer-Byers

or on my bottom pairing?
Pelech-Pardy

 

[TLinden]

Seriously dude that isn't that bad of a trade,Kipper is are number 1 goalie and we feel Neuvrith was just as good as Varlamov,we got a top 10 in Pysk and a great player in Eller you can say whatever you want but I like this trade for my team,and at the end of the day thats all that matters.



Ovechkin-Backstrom-Knuble
XXX-Laich-Fehr
Eller-Hodgson-Byfugglien
Gordon-Steckal-Bradley

Burns-Alzner
Carlsson-Bieksa
Schultz-XXX

Kipper
Neuvirth

That defense is going to get a WHOOPIN.. Wow.

 

[RR]

RRs Clinet Updates

UFA DEFENSEMEN
Volchenkov, Anton -- Has signed.
Corvo, Joe -- Has signed
Kubina, Pavel -- Has signed
Sutton, Andy -- Signed
Schubert, Chris -- Has signed
Foster, Kurtis -- Has signed
Tallinder, Henrik -- Has signed
Van Ryn, Mike -- Signing announced shortly
Girardi, Dan -- Has signed
Mara, Paul -- Signing announced shortly
Seidenberg, Dennis -- Signed

RFA OFFER SHEETS
Helm, Darren -- Edmonton matched, $1.75M per for 3 years
Latandresse, Guillame -- Three offers, with $4.2M per for 5 years leading. Decision imminent. If MIN doesn't respond to offer sheet, will announce by 5 pm EDT Saturday.
Abdelkader, Justin -- Two offers. $1.23M per top money so far.

 

[habsman56]

RR, congrats on your team man. I'm assuming you are pretty happy right about now?

 

[RandallRitchey]

Blues Ink Milan Jurcina To 2 Year Deal

Jurcina inks a 2 year deal with the St. Louis which will help solidify the Blues defense.


The St. Louis Blues have brought in defensemen Milan Jurcina to help solidify their defense.

"We are pleased to add Milan to our organization." Randall Ritchey said.

"Milan is a big physical defensemen who can play in both a higher paced and a shut down roll. For a big man, he's got good wheels and is a smart hockey player. We will look to pair him with Mike Weaver to have a very solid shut down pairing. This will likely bump Tyson Strachan down to Peoria but is likely to be up and down through out the year."

Juricina will make 1.7M per year for the next two years on his new contract with St. Louis.

 

[Jamie Benn]

have an announcement to make pretty soon.

 

[T_Cage]

Toront brings back D-man Carlo Colaiacovo, signed the free agent to a 2yr deal worth 1.25M per season.

"Carlo stepped it up when given the chance in STL, and we feel he'd be a good fit for our D core, at what is compared to other UFA defensemen a great price"

 

[RandallRitchey]

Wild Resign Harding and Latendresse

The Minnesota Wild have resigned RFA Josh Harding to a 3 Year Contract paying him 2 Million per year and Guillaume Latendresse to a 1 year 1.5 Million Dollar Contract.​

Hate to break the hearts of people bidding on Latendresse or Harding.
Looks like they resigned earlier this game.

 

[habsman56]

Hate to break the hearts of people bidding on Latendresse or Harding.
Looks like they resigned earlier this game.

oh snap!

Looks like Minnesota got some good contracts there too.

 

[SixthSens]

The Ottawa Senators have another trade to announce today. The club has dealt defenseman Filip Kuba to the New York Islanders in exchange for Corey Trivino and a 2011 3rd round draft pick.

"We wish Filip all the best in New York. On the other hand, we are excited to add Corey to our prospect stable."

 

[RR]

oh snap!

Looks like Minnesota got some good contracts there too.

I have no record of those signings.

 

[RR]

RR, congrats on your team man. I'm assuming you are pretty happy right about now?

Going to a big party at the Arena tonight. Playoffs are clinched; it's a sellout; Lanche are in town; and Jovo probably has a greeting to send to Peter Mueller tonight. Little **** admitted he quit on this team, didn't go over too well with his Phoenix teammates.

 

[Jamie Benn]

AVS LAND RAY WHITNEY

Player | Description

| Although we overapaid, we realized that we need a veteran who can bring leadership to the team, Ray Whitney is that plus more, he can score goals and rack up points as well, A Stanley Cup champion, we think we have what it takes to take the team to the next level.

Player | Salary | Years RAY WHITNEY | $5,000,000 | 3 [NTC]

 

[Dichow Stopper]

*** UFA FORWARDS ***

79 André Marcoux

Player | Age | Last Team | 2009/10 Cap | New Team | 2010/11 Cap | Term
Jokinen, Olli|31|NYR|$5,250,000|---|---|---
Whitney, Ray|37|CAR|$3,550,000|COL|$5,000,000|3
Modano, Mike|39|DAL|$3,450,000|DAL|$1,500,000|1
Cullen, Matt|33|OTT|$2,875,000|NYI|$3,300,000|3
Nolan, Owen|37|MIN|$2,750,000|---|---|---
Tanguay, Alex|30|TBL|$2,500,000|TOR|$3,000,000|2
Lehtinen, Jere|36|DAL|$2,500,000|---|---|---
Pisani, Fernando|32|EDM|$2,500,000|---|---|---
Weight, Doug|38|NYI|$2,200,000|---|---|---
Halpern, Jeff|33|LAK|$2,000,000|---|---|---
Sykora, Petr|33|MIN|$1,600,000|---|---|---
Bertuzzi, Todd|34|DET|$1,500,000|CLB|$2,250,000|2
Williams, Jason|29|DET|$1,500,000|---|---|---
Laraque, Georges|32|MTL|$1,500,000|---|---|---
Metropolit, Glen|35|MTL|$1,000,000|---|---|---
Niedermayer, Rob|34|NJD|$1,000,000|CGY|$900,000|1
Maltby, Kirk|36|DET|$883,333|---|---|---
Boogaard, Derek|27|MIN|$875,000|---|---|---
Park, Richard|33|NYI|$750,000|---|---|---
Hilbert, Andy|28|MIN|$650,000|---|---|---
Weller, Craig|28|FLA|$600,000|---|---|---
Ivanans, Raitis|30|LAK|$600,000|---|---|---
Glumac, Mike|29|MTL|$600,000|---|---|---
Mauldin, Greg|27|NYI|$600,000|---|---|---
Barch, Krys|29|DAL|$575,000|---|---|---
Reich, Jeremy|30|NYI|$575,000|---|---|---
Jackman, Tim|28|NYI|$550,000|---|---|---
Petersen, Toby|31|DAL|$550,000|---|---|---
Minard, Chris|28|EDM|$550,000|---|---|---
DiSalvatore, Jon|28|MIN|$550,000|---|---|---
Smith, Nathan|27|MIN|$550,000|---|---|---
Guite, Ben|31|NAS|$550,000|---|---|---
Scatchard, Dave|33|NAS|$550,000|---|---|---
MacIntyre, Steve|29|FLA|$537,500|---|---|---
Johnson, Jamie|27|FLA|$500,000|---|---|---
Durno, Chris|29|COL|$500,000|---|---|---
Hendricks, Matt|28|COL|$500,000|COL|$900,000|3
Peters, Warren|27|DAL|$500,000|---|---|---
Newbury, Kris|27|DET|$500,000|---|---|---
Milroy, Duncan|26|MIN|$500,000|---|---|---
McAmmond, Dean|36|NJD|$500,000|---|---|---
Pikkarainen, Ilkka|28|NJD|$500,000|---|---|---
Parenteau, Pierre-Alexandre|26|NYR|$500,000|---|---|---
Sertich, Marty|27|COL|$487,500|---|---|---
Ebbett, Andrew|26|MIN|$487,500|---|---|---

Olli Jokinen : Announcement imminent...

Owen Nolan : He was about to sign with a Western Conference team but the team had to take back their offer due to cap restrictions.

Jeff Halpern : Announcement imminent...

Richard Park : Top offer at $900,000 per for 3 years. He will take a decision tomorrow.

*Other players don't have any significant offer on the table or no offer at all for now.

PM!

 

[habsman56]

Has anybody noticed besides the few big guys getting overpayment, FA has been really quiet in this game?

 

[Backstrom #19]

Columbus BlueJackets

Columbus signs Todd Bertuzzi to a 2 year, 4.5 million(2.25 million per) deal. NTC is included.

Kristian Huselius - Jeff Carter - Jakub Voracek
RJ Umberger - Antoine Vermette - Todd Bertuzzi
xxxxxxx - Derick Brassard - Ryan Callahan
Derek Dorsett - Sammy Pahlsson - Maxim Lapierre
Jared Boll

Jan Hejda - Pavel Kubina
Fedor Tyutin - Rostislav Klesla
Braydon Coburn - Anton Stralman
Kris Russel - Marc Methot

Steve Mason
Mathieu Garon

Players in bold are available. Send me a PM if you have any interest in them.

 

[Dichow Stopper]

Has anybody noticed besides the few big guys getting overpayment, FA has been really quiet in this game?

Not enough money remaining...

I'm glad my team was pretty much set before free agency!

 

[habsman56]

Not enough money remaining...

I'm glad my team was pretty much set before free agency!

I know, mine too

But seriously, I've gotten 15 offers at most for all my FA's.

 

[Joey Moss]

Edmonton has matched the Darren Helm offer sheet worth 1.75 mil per over 3 seasons.

That should just about do it for Edmonton in free agency, we might be more active in the trade market but for now this will be the 2011-2012 Oilers look like this:

Taylor Hall - Sam Gagner - Ales Hemsky
Dustin Penner - Andrew Cogliano - Gilbert Brule
Magnus Paajarvi - Darren Helm - Jordan Eberle
Ryan Potulny - Shawn Horcoff - Zach Stortini
Ryan Jones

Ladislav Smid - Sheldon Souray
Ryan Whitney - Tom Gilbert
Aaron Johnson - Jeff Petry

Nikolai Khabibulin
Jeff Deslauriers
Devan Dubnyk

Thoughts?

 

[BillyShoe1721]

I bet Jokinen gets at least 8M.

 

[GordieHoweHatTrick]

Have signed defenseman, and hometown guy, Paul Mara to a 1-year contract worth $1,000,000

 

[habsman56]

Dan Hamhuis (Top Offer - 5 years, 5M/Year)
Rob Blake (Top offer - 1 year, 2M/Year)
Kim Johnsson (Top Offer - 1 year, 3.5M/year)
Ruslan Salei (No Offers)

Some of the top guys still looking for a team. Gotten a couple decent offers, but looking for more.

 

[Jamie Benn]

AVS SIGN SHATTENKIRK TO ELC

Player | Description

| Kevin Shattenkirk, a 14th overall pick in the 2007 entry draft, has been signed to an Entry Level Contract with the Avalanche, we plan on sending down Kevin to the AHL for a conditioning stint before being called up to the big leagues.

Player | Salary | Years KEVIN SHATTENKIRK | $1,300,000 | 3

 

[TLinden]

Sign Raffi Torres to a 1 year 1.4M dollar contract.

We feel this is great value for a 20 goal 3rd line guy like Raffi who can play a great offensive and defensive game. Torres-Madden-Moss will be a great 3rd line in Calgary, and it allows Glencross to stabalize out 4th line a little more.

 

[Jamie Benn]

Edmonton has matched the Darren Helm offer sheet worth 1.75 mil per over 3 seasons.

That should just about do it for Edmonton in free agency, we might be more active in the trade market but for now this will be the 2011-2012 Oilers look like this:

Taylor Hall - Sam Gagner - Ales Hemsky
Dustin Penner - Andrew Cogliano - Gilbert Brule
Magnus Paajarvi - Darren Helm - Jordan Eberle
Ryan Potulny - Shawn Horcoff - Zach Stortini
Ryan Jones

Ladislav Smid - Sheldon Souray
Ryan Whitney - Tom Gilbert
Aaron Johnson - Jeff Petry

Nikolai Khabibulin
Jeff Deslauriers
Devan Dubnyk

Thoughts?

Scratch Horcoff
Move Svensson, Eberle to second line.

Hall - Gagner - Hemsky
Paajarvi - Cogliano - Eberle
Penner - Helm - Brule
Jones - Poultny - Stortini
Horcoff


Other then that, solid looking team,