Official NHL offseason thread

[Halladay_is_God]

everything at www.tsn.ca/nhl

Detroit Red Wings waive (buying out), Derian Hatcher, Ray Whitney, and Darren McCarty. For the upcoming season, including the 24 per cent rollback, Hatcher's contract calls for a salary of $4.94 million, McCarty $1.71 million and Whitney $2.66 million.

Phoenix Coyotes buy out Brian Savage, The Coyotes bought him out for $1.9 million

The Montreal Canadiens have decided not to exercise club options on the contracts of defenceman Patrice Brisebois and minor league forward Gavin Morgan.

The Colorado Avalanche said Monday they plan to honour the big-ticket contracts of Joe Sakic and Rob Blake
With the 24 per cent rollback on all current contracts, Sakic (at $6.65 million) and Blake ($6.36 million) would cost about $13 million combined for the upcoming season. Forsberg and Foote are both unrestricted free agents. If they are not signed by Aug. 1, they will be on the open market.

John Muckler: No buyouts in Ottawa
That means they'll retain the services of forward Bryan Smolinski (scheduled to earn $2.24 million in 2005-06) and defenceman Greg de Vries ($2.28 million) - both rumoured to be headed out of Ottawa.

If Mike Modano doesn't return to the Dallas Stars this season he would consider joining former teammate Brett Hull in Phoenix.

The Pittsburgh Penguins will know long before the start of training camp in September if 2004 first-round draft pick Evgeni Malkin will join an ever-growing lineup of scorers that will soon include Sidney Crosby.

[Halladay_is_God]

best news all year
Bob Goodenow is steppin' down
http://tsn.ca/nhl/news_story.asp?id=131693

[Witlon]

Word.

No more Goodenow. I will toast to that as I get trashed this evening.

[realmofotalk]

The Ducks are shopping their #2 overall pick. A trade could involve Vancouver's Todd Bertuzzi or Ed Jovanovski.

Brian Burke would be out of his mind if he's trying to trade the #2 pick for mainly Jovanovski. Bertuzzi's a top goal scorer, but trading the #2 for him has "Alexei Yashin for Justin Spezza and Zdeno Chara" written all over it, IMO.

[Halladay_is_God]

Burke would be lucky to land someone like Bertuzzi or Jovo for the 2nd overall, it isn't a great draft outside of Crosby

the chances of getting jovo is very small with the re-signing of Ozzie

[Halladay_is_God]

draft day makes me so happy, too bad my oilers pick 25th

[Halladay_is_God]

draft is starting now

[Halladay_is_God]

i'll keep this updated for the 1st round

1. Pittsburgh - C Sidney Crosby (CSS #1 NA, TSN #1)
2. Anahiem - RW Bobby Ryan (CSS #3 NA, TSN #4)
3. Carloina - D Jack Johnson (CSS #4 NA, TSN #2)
4. Minnesota - LW Benoit Pouliot (CSS #2 NA, TSN #3)
5. Montreal - G Carey Price (CSS #1 NA goalie, TSN #7)
6. Columbus - C Gilbert Brule (CSS #5 NA, TSN #6)
7. Chicago - RW Jack Skille (CSS #11 NA, TSN #9)
8. San Jose via Atlanta - RW Devin Setoguchi (CSS #10 NA, TSN #26)
9. Ottawa - D Brian Lee (CSS #15 NA, TSN #14)
10. Vancouver - D Luc Bourdon (CSS #6 NA, TSN #11)
11. LA - RW Anze Kopitar (CSS #1 EURO, TSN #5)
12. NY Rangers via Atlanta via San Jose - D Marc Staal (CSS #9 NA, TSN #8)
13. Buffalo - C Marek Zagrapan (CSS #23 NA, TSN #12)
14. Washington - D Sasha Pokulok (CSS #39 NA, no TSN ranking)
15. NY Islanders - C Ryan O'Marra (CSS #14 NA, TSN #10)
16. Atlanta via NY Rangers - RW Alex Bourret (CSS #17 NA, TSN #15)
17. Phoenix - C Martin Hanzal (CSS #2 EURO, TSN #13)
18. Nashville - C Ryan Parent (CSS #8 NA, TSN #16)
19. Detroit - D Jakub Kindl (CSS #18 NA, TSN #20)
20. Florida via Philly - LW Kenndal McArdle (CSS #7 NA, TSN #17)
21. Toronto - G Tuukka Rask (CSS #1 EURO, TSN #23)
22. Boston - D Matt Lashoff (CSS #12 NA, TSN #22)
23. New Jersey - RW/LW Niklas Bergfors (CSS #5 EURO, TSN #19)
24. St Louis - C T.J. Oshie (CSS #43 NA, no TSN ranking)
25. Edmonton - C Andrew Cogliano (CSS #63 NA, TSN #18)
26. Calgary - D Matt Pelech (CSS #41, no TSN ranking)
27. Washington via Colorado - D Joe Finley (CSS #32 NA, no TSN ranking)
28. Dallas - D Matt Niskanen (CSS #31 NA, no TSN ranking)
29. Philly via Florida - RW Steve Downie (CSS #73 NA, no TSN ranking)
30. Tampa Bay - D Vladimir Mihalik (CSS #12 EURO, no TSN ranking)

[Halladay_is_God]

Atlanta trades the 8th overall pick to San Jose for the 12th overall, 49th overall (2nd round), 207th overall (7th round)

[McKain]

Where are you getting those CSS rankings from?

[Halladay_is_God]

www.hockeysfuture.com

its right near the top of the news

i couldn't find the total ranking, best i could do is NA / EURO rankings

[McKain]

They never produce a combined ranking, I thought.

I just couldn't find naywhere with the rankings at all; only 2004's. Thanks.

I love the Canucks pick

[Halladay_is_God]

i'll add the TSN ranking too

[Halladay_is_God]

Atlanta trades the 12th to the NYR for the 16th and 41th picks

[McKain]

ATL's looking to stockpile prospects this year, I guess.

Nice strategy, I'd say.