With news today that the Red Wings were able to avoid arbitration and sign Valtteri Filppula to a 5-year contract extension, the next likely step for general manager Ken Holland is to trim some salary to get the roster finalized before the team heads off for training camp.
When I first took a look at the […]
So Valtteri “Wally” Filppula is set to go to arbitration on Friday, August 1st. The reports indicate both sides have a two-year deal in their hip pocket that is all but signed, sealed and delivered. But they’d like to work out a longer-term deal so they have used the time up until the […]
No updates from me for a little while. Now seems like a good time to take a short break.
Go Tigers!
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You know it’s summer when the big news in the NHL is the persistent girlfight between Brian Burke and Kevin Lowe. Lowe has managed to stay above the fray for the most part, basically telling the Anaheim GM to:
Apparently Lowe had enough with the latest outburst and responded by calling Burke a moron. […]
If you’re someone who avidly follows Red Wings draft picks - and given Detroit’s history of success drafting players why wouldn’t you be? - then inveterate link hound and sleuth George James Malik has quite a nice little find. He posted the audio from a Ken Holland interview with Stoney and WoJo and it […]
That’s an email signature [by way of Virgil] my cousin has used for a little while now and I think it fits the Marian Hossa signing. While fortune favors the bold it don’t guarantee jack. That’s the only thing I find off-putting about the suggestion that next year’s Stanley Cup can be handed […]
Being wrong never felt so very, very right. I’ve written a couple times in a couple different contexts that it was nothing more than a pipe dream to suggest the Red Wings could sign Marian Hossa. The first was at the trade deadline this past winter.
If I’m close in my calculations that would […]
In trying to wrap my head around the Marian Hossa signing the only thing I can come up with is the NHL video games. In those games when your team scores it’s first goal or two the players on the ice celebrate and high five and hug and do stuff you’d expect them to […]
Brad Stuart running Floppa
Ken Holland likely signed Andreas Lilja yesterday afternoon as an insurance policy in case he couldn’t get Brad Stuart to extend his stay in Detroit. We’ll likely find out if that’s the case at some point in the near future as the general manager was able to ink Stuart to a […]
