Pyatt was alright at best. That's not gonna get you missed around here. :lol

http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2009/...gillis_sweden/

"Our focus is trying to get our own players signed first," Gillis said. "Beyond that we will explore every opportunity we have ... but we have budgeted for our own players plus some other significant additions, so we'll see how successful we are on July 1."

The NHL free-agent period opens at Noon ET on Wednesday.

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0...yeah_super.jpg

Come on we want new fricken news here!!!!!

Any word on Wellwood? I do wish the Canucks would resign him. I thought he played pretty well in the playoffs.

Did not see it in Stuff99 post of the article from the SUN this morning, but there was a side note that they talked to Gabroiks agent and the rumor of him buying a house in Vancouver was completely false:(. Hes been in Slovakia the whole time and has not even been here. Another Canuck rumor down the drain....:(

If we played more of an offensive game, Gabby is the best UFA out there. Hossa got owned this year, and I dont think he will be the same. Havlat go K.O'd and he will be f'd for a little while. Mike Camalari is good, but he was on Calgary...

Ohh and still no info on Lu..... But that deal must be done....

As discussed before.. Do you think the Agent will go ahead and tell the world that the Canucks violated the rules of talking to FA before july 1st? Ala Demitra saying the same thing.


But ya, I do have a good feeling that Gaborik will be signing here and it will be hella exciting.

I guess I will believe it when it happens.

Thank God Pyatt's not coming back.

Have you taken into account the countless other teams that will be competing for his services? I think it's wiser to wait and let things unravel on its own.

In the free agent market you can't wait cause lots of team will be calling and if you wait to
Decide you will lose out in the end

cdc saying rumors sedins signed for 5 yrs... hopefully its 5-5.5

according to TSN,
the sedin's have not released the terms of the offer but gillis said he would prefer a 5year deal. it sort of sounded like they are thinking about it.
bobby Lu's deal sounds like its about 5 years @ 8million. we will know tomorrow
TSN said gabby, camalleri and a puck moving D is plan B

also according to TSN, minus the sedin's we have 13 players signed and $22m left.

I think that was the initial offer, the offer that Gillis made in Sweden was better then that.

i thin its reasonable for them to sign for 5-5.5

1 Evgeni Malkin 113 9.000
2 Alex Ovechkin 110 9.000
3 Sidney Crosby 103 9.000
4 Pavel Datsyuk 97 6.700
5 Zach Parise 94 3.000
6 Ilya Kovalchuk 91 7.500
7 Ryan Getzlaf 91 5.125
8 Jarome Iginla 89 7.000
9 Marc Savard 88 5.000
10 Nicklas Backstrom 88 0.850
11 Joe Thornton 86 7.200
12 Jeff Carter 84 5.000
13 Michael Cammalleri 82 3.600
14 Daniel Sedin 82 3.575
15 Henrik Sedin 82 3.575
16 Martin St. Louis 80 4.000
17 Mike Richards 80 5.600
18 Rick Nash 79 7.000
19 Alexander Semin 79 5.000
20 Patrik Elias 78 6.000
21 Mike Ribeiro 78 5.000
22 Martin Havlat 77 6.000
23 Ray Whitney 77 3.550
24 Vyacheslav Kozlov 76 3.850
25 Eric Staal 75 6.000
26 Simon Gagne 74 5.250
27 Daniel Alfredsson 74 9.100
28 Jason Spezza 73 8.000
29 Shane Doan 73 4.550
30 Mike Green 73 5.000

right now we are looking at

X, X, Demitra
Burrows, Kesler, Bernier
Raymond, X, X (maybe grabner?)
Hordichuk, Johnson, X
Ripien

(Bolduc also under contract)

Bieksa, Mitchel
Edler, Salo
X, X

Luongo
Shneider


If Luongo signs for 5 years, expect to see Shneider go in a trade.


Unsigned:

Hansen
Pylon
Sedin
Sedin
Sundin
Welwood
Jaffry

Davidson
Obrien
Ohlund
Vaananen

JLB
Sandford

i would jump up and down peeing my pants with excitement if they signed for 5-5.5 for 5

+1

Wellwood is awesome. Tomorrows gonna be a big day.. So excited!

quick hurry we have a few hrs to obtain said bag of pucks

Gomez to Montreal

Wellwood will be back, he's an rfa

Nice, 8 million dollar cap hit should take them out of the Sedin sweepstakes if there is one.

Canucks have qualified Kyle Wellwood and Sedins deal is done according to Tony

http://twitter.com/Tony_Gallagher

The Canadiens acquired centre Scott Gomez, winger Tom Pyatt and defenceman Mike Busto from the New York Rangers in exchange for winger Chris Higgins and defencemen Doug Janik, Ryan McDonagh and Pavel Valentenko.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=283329

frees up cap for the rangers, which is really good cause their team is a fucking mess
gomez is a ripoff