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$7.5 million for Doan is outrageous, and there's probably a GM out there who will give it to him.

Shanny deserves to be there, and will be.

Sundin lugged around dead weight for wingers for almost 13 years and still scored over 1,300 points. He took Jonas Hoglund, an absolute worthless sack of crap of a hockey player and got nearly 30 goals out of him.

I'll bet the Leafs wear one of these two uniforms:

We'll see what we can do on this side of the border to turn this thing into a Leafs home game.

Going to be a lot of fun.

The amount of bitterness in this thread is hilarious.

It's actually up to the president of the AHL if Smith can serve his time at the AHL level.

It's up to him if they let him play during his suspension, but he has to be on an NHL roster for the games to come off his suspension. The AHL generally allows players to play when they are suspended in the NHL, only when it's a major suspension do they make the player sit.

All the AHL can do is issue a suspension of their own which does NOT affect the NHL suspension that he has to serve while on the NHL roster.

The Flyers had to do that with one of their boneheads a few years ago. They had to call him up before every game and then send him down immediately afterwards in order to take games off his suspension while he played in the AHL.

This account is usually pretty credible on rumors, at least they have so far.

The only problem I see here, is that I dont believe there is anybody left we could be interested now that we have signed White and Commo. That leads me to think this is wrong.

What do you guys think? Who else is even out there? Would it have to be a trade to get anyone else?

That site seems really good because it deletes the stuff they get wrong.

They forgot "Connolly and Lombardi on the IR", but you can only fit so many words into a headline.

Still better than Lebda!

Maybe the Montreal PD should worry about you know, REAL crimes. This is really pathetic that they are trying to question him on a hockey hit, sure it was a bad hit that resulted in an injury but it's Hockey, s*** happens.

It's Montreal. They get their panties twisted in a bunch anytime one of the glorious Canadiens are injured in a malicious attempt to destroy the Quebecois culture.

Had it been the other way around and a Hab had nearly decapitated a Bruin player, there'd be no police investigation, no Air Canada outrage. Nothing.

Only in Canada

No, only in Montreal.

There is no re-entry waivers during the off-season. Have to be able to assign a player to the AHL (and he has to report) in order to place him on re-entry waivers and you can't do that until training camp.

well there is a catch... As long as our offer is below 7.8 million then we would give up only 2 1st round picks and a 2nd and a 3rd. Yes that is a still a steep price but I highly doubt we draft a Doughty character with the 3rd and 2nd and if we stay competitive our 1st round picks will be 25 and later. This isn't like the leafs giving up a the picks and getting the 2nd overall pick. I say we offer him around 7 and either jack the price up on LA or we get him and he is our Lidstrom replacement 1 year ahead of time. Lidstrom, Doughty, Kronwall, Stuart as our top 4. That would be AMAZING!!!

It would have to be an absolutely insane offer for L.A. to let him go. It's a pipe dream to expect him to leave for another team via offer sheet.

Here's the list of first-time eligible candidates:

- Ed Belfour
- Trevor Linden
- Glen Wesley

The remaining candidates:

- Joe Nieuwendyk
- Doug Gilmour
- Pavel Bure
- Alex Mogilny
- Eric Lindros
- Adam Oates
- John LeClair
- Phil Housley
- Theo Fleury
- Guy Carbonneau
- Dave Andreychuk
- Tom Barrasso
- Sergei Makarov
- Mark Howe

To consider, on the door-step in 2012:

- Mats Sundin
- Jeremy Roenick
- Brendan Shanahan
- Gary Roberts
- Claude Lemieux
- Olaf Kozig
- Markus Naslund
- Joe Sakic
- Curtis Joseph

Who would you pick, given four choices?

Sportsnet's Nick Kypreos just tweeted that Brian Rafalski will retire this week.

In a surprise if not shocking move sources tell Sportsnet the #RedWings will announce retirement of D Brian Rafalski as early as this week.

http://twitter.com/#!/RealKyper/status/72770206837121024

FAN 590 via Kypreos and MacLean reporting the Phoenix Coyotes will re-locate to Winnipeg after the playoffs.