NHL Free Agent Game #5

[Blackhawkswincup]

Tampa Bay challenges anyone to come up with a line of players on their team as long as the last names of Artyukhin - Szczechura - Lemtyugov...28 characters long. If anyone beats that, I'll fork over the 2nd overall pick.

Ok!

Hawks move D Niklas Hjalmarsson to LW

Hjalmarsson-Versteeg-Byfuglien

 

[ESY16]

The Colorado Avalanche have a trade to announce:

To Colorado: Cody Franson
To Nashville: Marek Svatos

The Avalanche would like to thank Marek for his time in Colorado. We feel that Marek would be best served with a change of scenery. He should get plenty of playing time in Nashville with solid line-mates. This helps our team give more playing time to Chris Stewart and David Jones are RW.

Franson is a great prospect and will be given a long look in training camp. He put up solid number in the NHL and we feel that he will be a long-term contributor on our blueline.

 

[The Hockey Hitman]

ha thats not bad, but Versteeg is pretty easy, where as none of my guys names are easy, especially to a non-hockey fan.

Ok!

Hawks move D Niklas Hjalmarsson to LW

Hjalmarsson-Versteeg-Byfuglien

 

[General Borschevsky]

Ponikarovsky - Grabovski - Stempniak has you beat I'm afraid.

 

[vHAB]

Ponikarovsky - Grabovski - Stempniak has you beat I'm afraid.

Montreal raises you Latendresse - Metropolit - Kostopoulos

 

[The Hockey Hitman]

1) neither poni or grabovski is on your team anymore!
2) has more characters, but Stempniak is pretty easy to pronounce in my opinion, and really, so is Grabovski.

 

[LAKings88]

The Colorado Avalanche have a trade to announce:

To Colorado: Cody Franson
To Nashville: Marek Svatos

The Avalanche would like to thank Marek for his time in Colorado. We feel that Marek would be best served with a change of scenery. He should get plenty of playing time in Nashville with solid line-mates. This helps our team give more playing time to Chris Stewart and David Jones are RW.

Franson is a great prospect and will be given a long look in training camp. He put up solid number in the NHL and we feel that he will be a long-term contributor on our blueline.

Nashville confirms and looks forward to a "Hopefully" injury free productive season from Mr. Svatos. We believe he can infuse some needed offense into the lineup.

 

[stempniaksen]

Montreal raises you Latendresse - Metropolit - Kostopoulos

Even though I'm not Atlanta, the Thrashers raise you.

Kovalchuk- Peverley - Lavallee-Smotherman

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Well I am probably off for night! Might not be able to get on before I go for work!

See everyone in about 20 hours!

 

[vHAB]

Bergeron Headed to Florida
The Panthers acquired center Patrice Bergeron today in a trade that sent Greg Campbell, Colby Robak, Nick Tarnasky and Florida's second round pick in 2009 back to the Bruins.

This move gives the Panthers a legit top-line center who is still very young and signed to an inexpensive contract.


To Boston: Gregory Campbell, Nick Tarnasky, Colby Robak, 44th overall pick
To Florida: Patrice Bergeron

 

[stempniaksen]

If anyone wants to trade for the 15th overall pick there gonna have to do it before 1 pm, since I'm going to work after. PM me with trade ideas, willing to trade down, but would rather pick up a top-six LW.

 

[The Hockey Hitman]

sign top prospect Ian Cole

Ian Cole's contract: 3 year ELC, $787,500 NHL salary/year, $75,000 AHL salary/year, $87,500 Signing Bonus/year, $200,000 Individual A Bonus/year, $1,075,000 Cap Hit/year

"We're very pleased to get Ian under contract. He has not made up his mind whether or not he wants to turn pro this fall, but we've given him a deadline that we would like to know an answer by and we fully trust Ian will let us know by then. We still felt it very important to get him locked up, we look forward to one way or another, him patrolling our blueline for many years to come."

 

[NOTENOUGHJTCGOALS]

7th overall still available. Thrashers looking to move down in the draft for some immediate help. This is considered a top 7 draft so it will be a good pick.

 

[The Hockey Hitman]

announce team leadership changes

With the trade of Vincent Lecavalier, the Lightning needed a new captain, and wasted no time naming Martin St. Louis the new captain of the franchise. Previously, he had served as a alternate captain.

Marty's replacement as an alternate captain is none other than Ryan Malone.

Ryan joins Andrej Meszaros as one of the team's two alternate captains, a post Meszaros had been given at the beginning of last season.

The Lightning are also pleased to announce they have hired Gary Roberts as a special hockey advisor to GM Brian Lawton.

 

[BigG44]

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The Vancouver Canucks would like to announce that they have completed a trade with the Montreal Canadiens which will see veteran defenceman Willie Mitchell heading east. In return, the Canucks will receive young defenceman Ryan O'Byrne.

We'd like to thank Willie for his strong play on our blueline over the past three seasons, and wish him luck in Montreal. Unfortunately, in a cap environment, it simply wasn't feasible to keep him in the same role heading into next season. We look forward to seeing what Ryan can do for us, and feel that he still has plenty of upside that will have a better chance of realization in Vancouver.

This trade is on hold until C-Saku and THH confirm they allowed Willie Mitchell to waive his NTC.

 

[General Borschevsky]

This trade is on hold until C-Saku and THH confirm they allowed Willie Mitchell to waive his NTC.

My mistake on the Mitchell deal regarding his NTC, I deleted the trade posting. I don't see any way he'd waive his NTC.

 

[habs4eva]

The Habs are looking to deal Latendresse, Plekanec, Hamrlik, O'Byrne, D'Agostini.

Looking for a Center and Top 4 D-man.

If interested then PM me.

 

[BigG44]

GM Game 5 Announcement ​

1st Round of the draft will be on Wednesday night, Time: 7 PM Eastern

Each GM is responsible for sending in their Top 61 rankings (or whatever list the GM chooses) for the draft to The Hockey Hitman and BigG44. Only Anaheim, Los Angeles, Nashville, and Toronto submitted a list.

If you don’t send a list, your pick will automatically be made based on the current ISS, the HF boards draft list, and any other resource the league commissioners or draft moderator chooses.

Each GM will only have 10 minutes to make a pick before they are autoed.

Every draft pick is final unless a mistake was made by a league commissioner or draft moderator.

This is the list we will use to Auto-Pick:

1 Tavares, John - C - London (OHL)
2 Duchene, Matt - C - Brampton (OHL)
3 Hedman, Victor - LD - Modo (SEL)
4 Paajarvi-Svensson, Magnus - LW - (SEL)
5 Kane, Evander - C - Vancouver (WHL)
6 Schenn, Brayden - C - Brandon (WHL)
7 Cowen, Jared LD - Spokane (WHL)
8 Kadri, Nazem - C - London (OHL)
9 Ekman-Larsson, Oliver - LD - Leksands (SweAl)
10 Kulikov, Dmitri - LD - Drummondville (QMJHL)
11 Josefson, Jacob - C - Djurgarden (SEL)
12 Leblanc, Louis - C - Omaha (USHL)
13 Ellis, Ryan - RD - Windsor (OHL)
14 Schroeder, Jordan - RW - Minnesota (WCHA)
15 Holland, Peter - C - Guelph (OHL)
16 Moore, John - LD - Chicago (USHL)
17 Ferraro, Landon - RW - Red Deer (WHL)
18 Shore, Drew - C - USA Under-18 NTDP
19 Glennie, Scott - C - Brandon (WHL)
20 Kassian, Zack - RW - Peterborough (OHL)
21 Leddy, Nick - LD - Eden Prairie (MN-HS)
22 Rundblad, David - RD - Skelleftea (SEL)
23 Palmieri, Kyle - C - USA Under-18 NTDP
24 Kreider, Chris - LW - Andover (MA-HS)
25 Caron, Jordan - C - (QMJHL)
26 Werek, Ethan - C - Kingston (OHL)
27 Morin, Jeremy - C - USA Under-18 NTDP
28 Nattinen, Joonas - C - Espoo (FinJrA)
29 Orlov, Dimitri - F - Novokuznetsk (KHL)
30 Despres, Simon - LD - Saint John (QMJHL)
31 Erixon, Tim – LD - Skellefteå (SEL)
32 deHaan, Calvin – LD - Oshawa (OHL)
33 Rajala, Toni – LW - Ilves (SM-Liiga)
34 Ashton, Carter – RW - Lethbridge (WHL)
35 Elliot, Stefan – D - Saskatoon (WHL)
36 Budish, Zach – RW - Edina (MN-HS)
37 Klingberg, Carl – F - Frolunda (SEL)
38 Panik, Richard – C - Třinec (CzeE)
39 Roussel, Charles-Olivier – D - Shawinigan (QMJHL)
40 O'Reilly, Ryan – C - Erie (OHL)
41 Roy, Oliver – G - Cape Breton (QMJHL)
42 Tatar, Tomas – C - Zvolen (SvkE)
43 Olsen, Dylan – D - Camrose (AJHL)
44 Lee, Mike – G - Fargo (USHL)
45 Lander, Anton – C - Timra (SEL)
46 McNabb, Brayden – D - Kootenay (WHL)
47 Eakin, Cody – C - Swift Current (WHL)
48 Lehner, Robin – G - Frolunda Jr. (Swe)
49 Johansson, Marcus – C - Farjestad (SEL)
50 Paradis, Philippe – C - Shawinigan (QMJHL)
51 Gelinas, Eric – D - Lewiston (QMJHL)
52 Birkholz, Josh – RW - Fargo (USHL)
53 Beck, Taylor – LW - Guelph (OHL)
54 Hackett, Matt – G - Plymouth (OHL)
55 Chiasson, Alex – RW - Des Moines (USHL)
56 Bertilsson, Simon – D - Brynas (SEL)
57 Pasquale, Edward – G - Saginaw (OHL)
58 Barrie, Tyson - D - Kelowna (WHL)
59 Doherty, Taylor – D - Kingston (OHL)
60 Latta, Michael – C - Guelph (OHL)
61 Hutchings, Alex – LW - Barrie (OHL)

 

[Kessel>Seguin +]

If Kubina is traded it will be before the draft, PM if still interested

 

[BigG44]

Current Draft Order:

Round 1

1) NY Islanders
2) Tampa
3) Colorado
4) Toronto (from Atlanta)
5) Los Angeles
6) Phoenix
7) Atlanta (from Toronto)
8) Dallas
9) Ottawa
10) Edmonton
11) Nashville
12) Minnesota
13) Buffalo
14) Toronto (from Florida)
15) Anaheim
16) Columbus
17) Tampa (from St. Louis)
18) Tampa (from St. Louis from Montreal)
19) NY Rangers
20) Calgary
21) Philadelphia
22) Vancouver
23) New Jersey
24) Washington
25) Boston
26) NY Islanders
27) Carolina
28) Chicago
29) Pittsburgh
30) Detroit

Round 2

31) NY Islanders
32) Tampa
33) Colorado
34) Atlanta
35) Los Angeles
36) Tampa (from Phoenix)
37) NY Islanders
38) Dallas
39) Ottawa
40) Edmonton
41) Nashville
42) Nashville
43) San Jose
44) Boston (from Florida)
45) Atlanta
46) Ottawa
47) NY Rangers
48) Tampa (from St. Louis)
49) Colorado
50) Toronto
51) Carolina
52) Phoenix (from Tampa)
53) Vancouver
54) Calgary (from New Jersey)
55) Washington
56) NY Islanders
57) San Jose
58) Toronto
59) Chicago
60) Detroit
61) Pittsburgh

 

[BigG44]

Dallas is shopping the 8th overall pick (to move down ONLY) and prospects Ondrej Roman, Perttu Lindgren, and Colton Sceviour (to swap prospects).

 

[The Hockey Hitman]

signings

Tampa Bay has re-signed restricted free agents Matt Lashoff, Justin Keller, Lauri Tukonen and Karri Ramo.

Ramo is set to backup Mike Smith in Tampa and signed a 2 year, one way contract with a cap hit of 750k. Lashoff signed a two year, one way contract with a cap hit of 900k. Justin Keller and Lauri Tukonen signed one year, two way contracts, with Tukonen's contract having an out clause to play with his Finnish league team if he doesn't make the NHL roster.

 

[Kessel>Seguin +]

Justin Pogge could be moved in a prospect swap. If you need a solid goalie prospect PM.

 

[stempniaksen]

A trade has been finalized between Anaheim and a division rival. Rumour is that it involves a roster player and prospect coming to the Ducks.

 

[C-Saku Koivu MTL]

Kings might have a big trade to announce today.

If this deal ever finalize, I can say the Kings will consider moving down from their 5th overall position in the draft.

We'd look to move down anywhere from 7th to 11th overall and will ask for a addition of 2009 picks or good prospect to do so.