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Posted in NHL, Signings, Transactions on Sep 1st, 2010
Former Chicago Blackhawks goalie and Stanley Cup champion Antti Niemi has decided to accept a contract with the San Jose Sharks, a source tells ESPNChicago. It’s a one-year, $2 million deal. This tells us even more about how much it means for an individual to win a championship. People rag on Dan Marino and Jim [...]
Edmonton Oilers goalie Nikolai Khabibulin was sentenced to 30 days in jail when he decided to drive after pounding some Early Times whiskey. We don’t know for sure that he was drinking Early Times (we sure hope it was), but he definitely had too much of some kind of booze. Khabibulin was found guilty on [...]
Posted in NHL, Retired, Transactions on Aug 31st, 2010
Former Montreal Canadians, Chicago Blackhawks, Detroit Red Wings, and Atlanta Thrashers defenseman Chris Chelios, with his wife and children seated in front of him, officially retired from the NHL on Wednesday at Joe Louis Arena. Chelios will remain on board with the Red Wings serving the organization in a multifaceted role as adviser to hockey [...]
Posted in NHL on Aug 25th, 2010
This is getting interesting. Someone doesn’t want Ilya Kovalchuk to sign with the New Jersey Devils. An arbitrator voided the contract he originally signed with the team, and now the NHL has rejected the latest proposed framework. While no formal contract was submitted, the two sides talked conceptually. Photo Caption: Devils executives are asked about [...]
Posted in NHL on Aug 9th, 2010
An independent arbitrator has agreed with the NHL that the contract between Ilya Kovalchuk and the New Jersey Devils is a bunch of crap. Kovalchuk had signed a 17-year, $102 million deal with the Devils that was completely outrageous and designed to pay him a ton while keeping his cap number low. You see, the [...]
Posted in NHL on Aug 3rd, 2010
The Philadelphia Flyers had an amazing run through the playoffs and at times got some great goaltending from Brian Boucher and Michael Leighton. But, the bottom line is that they are backups who should not be starting on a team that has a Stanley Cup on the brain. So, one would think that if the [...]
Posted in NHL, Signings, Transactions on Aug 2nd, 2010
The Chicago Blackhawks won a Stanley Cup with Antti Niemi as their goalie. Great, right? Re-sign him, right? Not really. First of all, he’s not that good and they won in spite of him rather than because of him (thank you to the Philadelphia Flyers for having Michael Leighton in their net). Second of all, [...]
Posted in NHL on Jul 20th, 2010
Remember that 17-year contract that the New Jersey Devils agreed to with Ilya Kovalchuk? It was set to pay him tons of money until the last six years of the deal, when they’d only owe him some $550,000 per year. Well, it ain’t happening. The NHL has blocked the contract, saying that it circumvents the [...]
Posted in NHL on Jul 20th, 2010
Philadelphia Flyers defenseman Chris Pronger was a huge reason the Flyers made a deep run into the Stanley Cup Finals. He shut opposing teams down like it was his job (it is his job). But at 35-years old, Pronger probably can’t handle 30 minutes of ice time for too much longer over the course of [...]
Posted in NHL, Signings, Transactions on Jul 19th, 2010
You read that right. Ilya Kovalchuk has re-signed with the New Jersey Devils and it’s an insane contract. The NHL’s CBA is a complete joke and teams are abusing it constantly. Kovalchuk signed a 17-year (you read that corrently), $100-plus million contract with the Devils that will keep him in a red jersey until he’s [...]
This is great. The main reason that the Philadelphia Flyers couldn’t conquer the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Finals was goal tending. Sure, the Blackhawks didn’t have great goal tending either (we aren’t huge Antti Niemi fans), but they had enough firepower elsewhere to take the Fly Guys down in six games. Well, maybe [...]
Posted in NHL, Trades, Transactions on Jul 19th, 2010
The Philadelphia Flyers have continued their busy offseason today. Over the salary cap and in need of a salary dump, they have traded Simon Gagne to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Matt Walker and a fourth-round pick. This gives the Lightning quite an attack with Gagne, Vincent Lacavalier, Martin St. Louis and Steven Stamkos. And [...]
Posted in NHL on Jul 11th, 2010
Yes, we all know by now that the Chicago Blackhawks are the 2010 Stanley Cup champions of the NHL. And there are tons of people in the Chi-town area (and those not in the area who just like to jump on bandwagons. Those folks are also huuuuuge Los Angeles Lakers fans and think that Drew [...]
Posted in NHL, Signings, Transactions on Jul 1st, 2010
This was certainly unexpected. Most people figured that defenseman Sergei Gonchar would be headed to Washington or Pittsburgh. But nope, Gonchar has actually signed a three-year, $16.5 million contract with the Ottawa Senators. The 36-year old Russian was the best offensive defenseman on the market, and now he’ll help out Ottawa on the blue line [...]
Posted in Baseball, Funny Tweets, NBA, NFL, NHL on Jun 25th, 2010
Here at OTR we wonder about a lot of things. We wonder how many times Jay Bilas used the word ‘tremendous’ last night at the 2010 NBA Draft. We set the over/under at 233. We wonder when the panel for the NFL pregame show will go six men deep, then seven. We wonder if sideline reporters [...]
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