Official NHL 2007-2008/Trade Deadline/Playoffs Thread

[Gondi Stylez]

Put all the free agent signings and comments in here!

But before that I think I have been living under a rock because I never new Nashville traded Tomas Vokoun to Florida for two picks and a conditional pick (maybe getting rid of money to sell the team?)

And Toronto got Vesa Toskala and Mark Bell from San Jose for three draft picks! Still hate TO though


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Bruins get Manny Fernandez

Thrashers sign Todd White

Capitals sign Tom Poti

Panthers sign Richard Zednik and Brett McLean

Ducks sign Mathieu Schneider

Flyers sign Daniel Briere to 8 year, $52 million deal

Oilers sign Dick Tarnstrom and Denis Grebeshkov

Flames sign Cory Sarich to 5 year, $18 million deal

[TeamBestBud]

What's up with Philly? Signing KIMO TIMONEN to a 6 year 48 mill deal and signing scott harnell to a 6 year 37.2 million deal and now signing briere to an 8 year 52 million deal. why would you sign all these players for such a long time

[Phlav]

Damn Briere 6.5 mil/season IMO what a waste of money, that guy is so overrated, I woulda rather gone for Drury for that kinda money. Just wait until everybody is used to the new rules, that guy will suck worse than he did before the new rules. Oh well good for him I guess.

[CCM Pro]

Red Wings get Brian Rafalski for just a little more than Schneider's getting and Rafalski is solid...I hate Detroit...also Yanic Perreault to Chicago for a 1 yr deal

[SilverGS]

Cory Sarich for 3.6M/year?? Hmm D-men are steep thats double what he made last year, he is not exactly offensively minded and his+/- is not that great.. in Sutter we trust in Sutter we trust

[md14]

The Edmonton Oilers have traded captain Jason Smith and forward Joffrey Lupul to the Philadelphia Flyers for Joni Pitkanen, Geoff Sanderson and a third round draft pick in 2009.

[bmeier]

sarich is a good solid dman. we need that especially if regehr leaves. plus aucoin and phanuef are the big PP shots.
and his plus minus sucks because he played for tampa bay

[A2VR6]

WOW... Drury AND Gomez to the Rangers... Gomez with a 51.5 mil contract for 7 years. JasonBlake to the Leafs as well...

[toyboy88]

The Colorado Avalanche have signed D Scott Hannan to a four-year deal worth $18 million.

Wouldn't have minded him with the flames

oh yeah, best site with up to date info on signings:

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?fid=4965

[rvd]

The rags disgust me.

[spyce]

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=212495&hubname=

looks like we'll still have to see this guy at least 8 times a year..

[HyperZell]

Damnit, I was hoping Smyth would stay far, far away. At least Calgary didn't pick him up.

So the initial outlook is that NYR is going to be a force to contend with, while NYI is the new Edmonton next season. Edmonton is going to be the new old Edmonton (read: they'll suck). Philly will be making a big comeback while NJ will be sinking. Detroit will be as strong as ever and Colorado might return to form. St. Louis will have some more goals but still have no defense, while Buffalo will have to find more magic in their balanced system.

I'm going to love the upcoming season...

[hjr]

Calgary's lineup seems pretty strong. i dont think they need to make too many moves outside of a goal scorer. seems strange that sutter would go for another dman. i found that the flames d was pretty decent all season (scoring the problem).

Oilers seems like they are in rebuilding season type of mode, which is pretty lame. battle of alberta is gonna suck this season.

[TE4MFaint]

Wow, I'm definately wonderin how Gomez and Drury will do in New York.


This years hockey fantasty pool is gonna be tough.


Also, I wonder what line Sykora will play on with the Pens.

[TeamBestBud]

Originally posted by hjr
(scoring the problem).

7th in the league in Gf/g scoring problem? IMO our offense was better this season but I understand what you mean in that the scoring wasn't there when it needed to be.

[Mr_John]

Pens: Sign Sydor and Sykora
They're gonna be a great team to watch next season.

Oilers: Sign Center Micheal Nylander.
Guess Gomez will be replacing him on the top line in NY.

Kings: Sign defenseman Tom Priessing.

Blues: Sign Paul Kariya

[Nissanaddict]

Originally posted by Mr_John


Oilers: DO NOT!!!! Sign Center Micheal Nylander.

That was a TSN report before a deal was done. Nylander is now a Washington Capital.

Hamrlik is a Canadien (whoo....we rip on him pretty bad here....imagine in Montreal)

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/feature/?fid=4965

The whole breakdown there.

[l8braker]

WOW on Hammer to MTL, Smyth to the Avs and Sydor, Sykora to the Pens....

[Team_Mclaren]

well, after all these signings, a few teams are royally fucked:

Islanders, Oilers, Nashville, NJ, Sabres

Hammer only signed for 4 years 12mil, man i dont know why we didnt keep him.

And Nylander to Washington, wow Ovechkin finally has someone worth playing with.

[mac_82]

Originally posted by Mr_John

Oilers: Sign Center Micheal Nylander.

Washington: Nylander

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/news_story/?ID=212549&hubname=