- Greg Wyshynski of Puck Daddy: Brian Burke talking about the Maple Leafs and the World Hockey Summit.
Brian Burke talks Kaberle, World Hockey Summit from Greg Wyshynski on Vimeo.
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- EJ Hradek via twitter: Meeting at the League office in New York yesterday involving Kovalchuk’s agent, Devils GM Lou Lamoriello and Devils owner Jeff Vanderbeek.
- Tom Gulitti via twitter: A contract for Kovalchuk was submitted to the league, just talked about the structure.
- Gordon McIntyre of the Vancouver Province: Willie Mitchell won’t discuss where he might sign, but he did say that a decision is coming soon.
- NHL Sources Say via twitter: Reporting the Kings are out on Willie Mitchell. Canucks a long shot. Capitals or Sharks front runners.
- Brad Ziemer of the Vancouver Sun: Canucks GM Mike Gillis will be looking into the the team’s captaincy between now and the beginning of training camp. Roberto Luongo is still the team’s captain (I’ve never understood that move), but Henrik Sedin could be ready to take over.
- Curtis Zupke of the OC Register: Joffrey Lupul has a re-occurrence of a blood infection in his back and will miss the beginning of training camp, and may not be ready for the start of the season. Lupul is taking antibotics and is not able to do any excercise for the next 4 weeks. He’ll be re-evaluted on September 20th.
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Jeff Marek of CBCSports: A summary of some happenings at the World Hockey Summit. Slava Fetisov says that Russia isn’t interested in transfer agreements with the NHL but will work together to go the game worldwide. Daniel Afredsson says the larger ice surfaces creates a slower game, perfers NHL ice size. Yzerman said the lack of arenas in Florida has hurt the development of the sport.
And at the end of Day 1, many of us came away with the same question: What is this?
I’d like to say it was a discussion but it really wasn’t. Hockey personalities from across the globe, representing a myriad of different interests, had their say on their “sweet-spot” topics and then answered a couple of questions. Each session lasted no longer than 30 minutes.
- Jesse Spector (NY Daily News) via twitter: Still “nothing new” on to report on the Marc Staal – New York Rangers contract talks.
- Craig Custance of the Sporting News: Now that Bryan Little has signed, the Atlanta Thrashers will now focus on re-signing Niclas Bergfors. GM Rick Dudley also said the team has touched base with Lee Stempniak. They may leave a roster spots open for young players like Patrice Cormier and Alexander Burmistrov.
- Neil Koepke of the Lansing State Journal: Tim Kennedy has talked to 5 or 6 teams, and would like to be signed in the next week or two.
#1 by Joseph at August 24th, 2010
I wonder how awkward it’ll be for Daniel when Henrik gets the captaincy???
Daniel’s in a sucky situation, I mean, his PPG last year was basically the same as Henrik’s, but because of the injury he gets the short end of the stick.
They should have co-captains, a la Buffalo circa 2006. They’re clearly the team’s best players and leaders, and then they can just have one A (Kesler).
#2 by Mark Easson at August 24th, 2010
I don’t think it would be that big of a deal. Less pressure not having the ‘C’ … I’m sure it’s a situation they’ve had to deal with in the past.
#3 by Joseph at August 24th, 2010
Ya, but still. Even with the “MVP” season Henrik had last year, here’s a good stat for you from last season only:
Henrik: 1.35 PPG
Daniel: 1.34 PPG
I mean, they were drafted within one pick of each other, have basically identical career stat lines, signed the exact same contracts, not to mention they look exactly the same. Making one the C and one the A will be the first time they haven’t been the exact same people in their lives.
Luongo obviously wasn’t their first choice for captain when he was actually named captain. Henrik and Daniel both deserved it way more, but they couldn’t pick between them, so they picked Luongo.