Posts Tagged Marian Gaborik
Rangers lose Gaborik and Drury … Ballard leaves Canucks game … Souray makes AHL debut … Someone wearing #66
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL Injuries, NHL News on October 16th, 2010
- Jesse Spector NY Daily News: The New York Rangers lost Marian Gaborik last night for 2-3 weeks with a separated shoulder after taking a hit from Colby Armstrong. Chris Drury was also injured last night in his first game back after a broken index finger as he broke the same finger, but in a different spot, he’ll be out 6 weeks. Vinny Prospal will have knee surgery on Tuesday, and will be out indefinitely. Erik Christensen is expected to be back in the lineup on Monday after sitting out last night’s game.
- Jason Botchford of the Vancouver Province: Vancouver Canucks defenseman Keith Ballard left last night’s game after taking a hit in the first, he may have hurt his shoulder or possibly a concussion.
- Sheldon Souray made his AHL debut last night in a 7-1 Hershey Bears victory, recording 1 assist and was a +3 with 2 PIMs.
- Erik Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail: Calgary Flames rookie TJ Brodie will be wearing the number 66 this season. That doesn’t seem right to me, it’s one of those rare numbers that shouldn’t be worn by just anyone. Duncan Keith averaged just over 32 minutes of ice time through the first 4 games.
- Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The Atlanta Thrashers have waived 2004, 1oth overall draft pick, Boris Valabik. Thrashers fans may not want to see some of the other players they passed over to take Valabik, some guy named Mike Green, Travis Zajac, Andrej Meszaros (though many other teams passed on those guys as well).
Kuba out 5-6 weeks … Little-Peverley switching positions … Weber-Suter split up? Hodgson back Wednesday?
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL Injuries, NHL News, NHL Rumors on September 20th, 2010
- Ken Warren of the Ottawa Citizen: Filip Kuba will miss 5-6 weeks after breaking his leg on the first day of training camp. His leg won’t require surgery.
- Helene Elliott of the LA Times: Through 2 days of training camp, the top 3 lines have consisted of Anze Kopitar-Ryan Smyth-Dustin Brown; Jarret Stoll-Scott Parse-Justin Williams; and Michal Handzus-Alexei Ponikarovsky-Wayne Simmonds. Coach Terry Murray envisions a “gritty, heavy” fourth line.
- Chris Vivlamore of the Atlanta Journal Consitution: Bryan Little, who has played the last 2 seasons on right wing, will move to center. Rich Peverley, who played center last year, has moved over to the right side.
- Josh Copper of the Tennessean: Nashville Predators coach, Barry Trotz, is thinking of breaking up the defensive pair of Shea Weber and Ryan Suter.
- Josh Cooper of the Tennessean: Mark Dekanich heads into camp as the leading candidate to the be the backup for Pekka Rinne over Chet Pickard. GM David Poile has hinted that he may look outside for a backup goalie. Ryan Suter and Steve Sullivan were named as alternate captains.
- Iain MacIntyre of the Vancouver Province: Cody Hodgson could rejoin the full team Vancouver Canucks on Wednesday. Saturday and Sunday he was skating at the 2nd rink with “slightly injured players and fringe prospects”. Alex Burrows is still recovering from shoulder surgery, he’s skating but not taking contact. Mikael Samuelsson is expected to move up from the 2nd line to take Burrows spot until he comes back. A time frame for Burrows return may be known later this week after strength tests.
- Jesse Spector of the NY Daily News: The New York Rangers continue to build around their young core, and with many young guys looking good in camp, some veterans may find themselves on the outside. Derek Stepan has been centering Marian Gaborik and Alexander Frolov.
Lou having problems moving high-priced forwards? Frolov to play with Gaborik? Players don’t like DeBoer? and more
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL News, NHL Rumors on September 17th, 2010
- Mark Everson of the NY Post: As the October 6th deadline for Lou Lamoriello to move some salary gets closer, Lou is still having some problems moving out some high-priced players. Teams may not want to give up much to take on the salary when there are still some lower priced free agents on the market. Some may be punishing Lou for the Kovalchuk contract. So Travis Zajac’s name continue to be brought up in rumors. Sources are saying teams aren’t that interested in sending futures to Devils forwards (I would guess not including Zajac). Teams are more interested in their defenseman, mainly Bryce Salvador, but Lou doesn’t really want to have to deal him.
- Jesse Spector of the NY Daily News: John Tortorella said the Alexander Frolov will play on a line with Marian Gaborik at the start of pre-season in hopes of increasing his confidence. Tortorella says they are not signaling out Wade Redden to solve their cap problems, and will let things play out. Tort’s answers more questions regarding the Rangers in the article.
- Craig Custance of the Sporting News: Jose Theordore’s agent has said that he won’t be attending training camp on a tryout as he doesn’t feel that Theordore needs to tryout for anyone.
- Tony Gallagher of the Vancouver Province: It appears that Florida Panthers coach, Peter DeBoer, is not liked by many of his players, as he’s said to treat them like Juniors. Keith Ballard was traded to Canucks after the season, and had screaming matches with DeBoer last season. Ballard had taken enough from DeBoer, and wasn’t going to put up with it any more without letting DeBoer know what he felt. “We had our differences, and it got loud but I don’t think it was anything more than a coach trying to get more out of a player.”
- Mike Brophy via twitter: Magnus Svensson-Paajarvi, Magnus Paajarvi-Svensson, Magnus Paajarvi could start the year on line with Sam Gagner and Ales Hemsky.
- Spector’s Hockey via twitter: With the New Jersey Devils inviting Adam Mair to training camp, it will only add to the speculation that a centerman will be either traded or demoted.
- Pierre LeBrun via twitter: LeBrun talked to Bruins GM Peter Chiarelli yesterday, and he said he’s never seen Tim Thomas more motivated.
Top 30 Salary Cap Numbers – Left Wingers
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL News on August 1st, 2010
Listed below are the Top 30 Salary Cap Hits for Left Wingers heading into the 2010-11 NHL Season. We’ve used the salary cap number over the total salary for this season, due to the front loading of contracts. If a free agent signs and makes the list, we’ll update accordingly, but that is unlikely to happen.
Take a look at Top 30 salary cap numbers by position:
Centers | Left Wingers | Right Wingers | Defenseman | Goaltenders
| Rk. | Player | Team | Age | 2010-11 Cap Hit | 2010-11 Salary |
| 1 | Alexander Ovechkin | Washington | 24 | $9,538,000 | $9,000,000 |
| 2 | Rick Nash | Columbus | 26 | $7,800,000 | $7,500,000 |
| T3 | Marian Gaborik | NY Rangers | 28 | $7,500,000 | $7,500,000 |
| Dany Heatley | San Jose | 29 | $7,500,000 | $8,000,000 | |
| 5 | Thomas Vanek | Buffalo | 26 | $7,143,000 | $6,400,000 |
| 6 | Ilya Kovalchuk | New Jersey | 27 | $6,666,666 | $6,000,000 |
| 7 | Ryan Smyth | Los Angeles | 34 | $6,250,000 | $5,500,000 |
| 8 | Daniel Sedin | Vancouver | 29 | $6,100,000 | $6,100,000 |
| 9 | Henrik Zetterberg | Detroit | 29 | $6,083,000 | $7,750,000 |
| T10 | Patrik Elias | New Jersey | 34 | $6,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
| Alexander Semin | Washington | 26 | $6,000,000 | $6,000,000 | |
| 12 | Simon Gagne | Tampa Bay | 30 | $5,250,000 | $5,250,000 |
| 13 | Martin Havlat | Minnesota | 29 | $5,000,000 | $5,000,000 |
| 14 | Kristian Huselius | Columbus | 31 | $4,750,000 | $4,750,000 |
| T15 | Martin Erat | Nashville | 28 | $4,500,000 | $5,250,000 |
| Ryan Malone | Tampa Bay | 30 | $4,500,000 | $6,000,000 | |
| 17 | Milan Michalek | Ottawa | 25 | $4,333,000 | $4,250,000 |
| 18 | Loui Eriksson | Dallas | 24 | $4,267,000 | $3,200,000 |
| T19 | Dustin Penner | Edmonton | 27 | $4,250,000 | $4,250,000 |
| David Booth | Florida | 25 | $4,250,000 | $3,750,000 | |
| 21 | Brenden Morrow | Dallas | 31 | $4,100,000 | $4,100,000 |
| 22 | Milan Lucic | Boston | 22 | $4,083,000 | $4,000,000 |
| 23 | Jason Blake | Anaheim | 36 | $4,000,000 | $3,000,000 |
| 24 | Sean Avery | NY Rangers/Dallas | 30 | $3,875,500 | $4,000,000 |
| 25 | Wojtek Wolski | Phoenix | 24 | $3,800,000 | $3,600,000 |
| 26 | Taylor Hall | Edmonton | 18 | $3,750,000 | $900,000 |
| 27 | Chris Kunitz | Pittsburgh | 30 | $3,725,000 | $3,800,000 |
| 28 | Cory Stillman | Florida | 36 | $3,533,000 | $3,500,000 |
| 29 | Marco Sturm | Boston | 31 | $3,500,000 | $3,500,000 |
| 30 | Rene Bourque | Calgary | 28 | $3,333,000 | $4,000,000 |
Marian Gaborik Hurt at Practice
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL Injuries, NHL News on February 9th, 2010
12:19: Steve Zipay via Twitter: Lundqvist’s skate hit Gaborik’s knee.
12:01: Steve Zipay of Newsday via Twitter: Zipay is reporting that Marian Gaborik was helped off the ice with an apparent leg injury. The injury occured during practice in a one-on-one drill, as Gaborik jumped over Lundqvist.
Ranger fans and fantasy owners will be holding their breath on this one.
Around the Boards: Fri. Oct. 30th
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL News, NHL Rumors on October 30th, 2009
- Chris McCosky of the Detroit News: The Detroit Red Wings offense took another hit last night with Valtteri Filppula broke his right wrist. He’ll be out for 6 to 8 weeks. Darren Helm may be given the first chance to replace Filppula on the 2nd line with Cleary and Bertuzzi.
- Michael Russo of the Star Tribune: It looks like Marian Gaborik’s return to Minnesota will have to be postponed as it doesn’t look like he’ll be returning to the New York Rangers lineup.
- Sam Carchidi of the Philadelphia Inquirer: Randy Jones was claimed off re-entry waivers by the Los Angeles Kings. Jones was in the final year of a 2 year, $5.5 million deal. Both the Flyers and Kings will have a $1.375 cap hit for Jones.
- Mark Zwolinski of the Toronto Star: Maple Leafs coach Ron Wilson said there is a good chance that Phil Kessel will make his Toronto debut on Tuesday versus Tampa Bay. Vesa Toskala was activated and may see action tomorrow. Joey MacDonald and rookie Viktor Stalberg were sent to the AHL’s Marlies. Jiri Tlusty was recalled to take Stalberg’s roster spot.
- Pat Hickey of the Montreal Gazette: Carey Price will be making the start tonight, his first since October 17th. The Canadiens are also mixing up their top 2 lines: Andrei Kostitsyn, Scott Gomez and Brian Gionta; Mike Cammalleri, Tomas Plekanec and Maxim Lapierre.
There have been rumors floating around that the Canadiens and Blackhawks might be talking trade involving Carey Price and Cristobal Huet, but they don’t appear to be true.
Around the Boards: Wed. Oct. 28th
Posted by Mark Easson in NHL News, NHL Rumors on October 28th, 2009
- Robert Tychkowski of the Edmonton Sun: Fernando Pisani, who’s had some tough luck with injuries the past couple seasons is close to returning to the Edmonton Oilers. It may not be the best time to return to the Oilers dressing room as players, staff and members of the media that follow the Oilers have been getting sick. Ladislav Smid was confirmed as having the Swine Flu (H1N1).
- Terry Frei of the Denver Post: Coach Sacco confirmed that backup goalie, Peter Budaj, has been diagnosed with the Swine Flu. John-Michael Liles (shoulder) and Tom Preissing (knee) are both back skating with the club, but remain out.
- Mark Emmons of the San Jose Mercury News: Joe Pavelski and Torrey Mitchell took part in their first practice yesterday. Setoguchi is doubtful for tonight’s game.
- Don Brennan of the Ottawa Sun: Yesterday Brennan wrote that Erik Karlsson would most likely be sent back to Sweden, today Karlsson finds himself on his way to Binghamton, the Sens AHL club. They won’t lose a year on his contract by sending him to the AHL.
- Steve Gorten of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel: 2009 1st round pick Dmitry Kulikov’s solid play to start the season will keep him with the Panthers. Kulikov has been averaging over 17 minutes a game so far this season.
- Frank Seravalli of the Philadelphia Daily News: Philadelphia is going to miss Simon Gagne for an extended period of time as it was revealed that he has 2 small sports hernia’s. He’s been placed on IR and could be moved to LTIR. The course of action to fixed the injury has yet to be determined.
- Chip Alexander of the Raleigh News & Observer: Eric Stall has been moved to the point in an attempt to kick start the Hurricanes powerplay. Rod Brind’Amour, Ray Whitney and Sergei Samsonov, are the 1st line powerplay forwards with Stall and Joni Pitkanen on the point.
- David Satriano of the New York Post: It appears that Marian Gaborik will miss tonight’s game against the Islanders.
- Jim Matheson of the Edmonton Journal: Answers a readers question about a Tom Gilbert to Buffalo for Drew Stafford trade rumor. Matheson says this rumor has been out there for a year.
Marian Gaborik will test free agency
Posted by Derek in NHL Free Agents, NHL News, NHL Rumors on June 30th, 2009
It appears that the Minnesota Wild will not be offering a contract to the often injured superstar. Marion Gaborik, the team’s top pick in its inaugural draft, is the last remaining original franchise member and its career scoring leader with 219 goals and 437 points. In 2007-08, he set single-season franchise and career marks with 42 goals and 83 points.
The flip side, of course, is the right wing’s injury problems. He has played just one full season since 2002-03, last year missing 63 games because of groin and hip injuries. Over the past year, he has had both hips surgically repaired.
The last procedure was in January, when surgeon Marc Philippon told him the procedure had a 93 percent chance to eradicate his chronic groin problems. Gaborik came back with 11 games left in the season and scored 10 goals as the Wild went 7-3-1. (source:TwinCities.com)
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