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Westcoastin':
No way is Burrows leaving, he just signed a bargain 4 year contract. Schneider will be a good addition.. the paper this morning said it would be 1 year for about 1.5 mil. Makes our top 6 D very solid: Bieksa, Mitchell, Salo, Edler, Schnieder and OBrien
I wonder if they're trying to grab another Top 6 forward... We dont have alot of Cap room, but we could easily spare Cory Schneider and 2 of the extra guys fighting for 2nd/3rd line duty
Sedin Sedin Burrows
Demitra Wellwood Kesler
Raymond Hodgson Samuelsson (or Grabner, Hanson, Bernier)
Hordichuk Johnson Rypien
Jaydc555:
canucks should dump hordichuk and put bernier on the fourth line.Horduchuk is so one dimensional and al liabiliy on the ice.hanse will be a rotation and depth guy.Im curioius to see if grabner makes it out of camp.Im guessing sundin isnt coming back but who knows.
The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES:
I would really love to have Sundin, but they've signed too many people and have no room...
Sedin Sedin Samuelsson
Burrows Kesler Demitra
Raymond Wellwood Bernier
CoHo/Shirokov Johnson Rypien
Benched: Hordichuk, Hansen
PS: I guarantee that Gillis is saving Schneider for a mid-season trade. With Luongo reports saying he wants to finish his career as a Canuck, there is no room for Cory anymore. Gillis gonna assess what area needs improvement and he'll probably be part of the bargain. (Grabner, Demitra (cuz I hate him) too?)
The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES:
Ottawa Senators coach Cory Clouston denied Wednesday that winger Dany Heatley's role diminished on his watch.
In a media availability at Scotiabank Place, Clouston suggested any moves he made were meant to help the team, not punish the player.
“As far as a diminished role, it was very slightly diminished and, in my opinion, it wasn’t diminished,” Clouston said. “It was to try and spread out the scoring, as it’s been printed on several occasions.
“Everybody knows (Heatley’s) production actually went up over the last while as well,” he added.
On Friday, Heatley told reporters that he requested a trade from the Senators in the spring because he was unhappy with his role on the team. It's believed a slight reduction in ice time and a demotion to the second power play unit were big factors in his decision.
Clouston said Heatley was always respectful in their meetings, during which both men spoke their minds and discussed what a bigger role meant.
“Basically we needed from Dany what we needed from everybody else,” Clouston explained. “Come into camp with the right frame of mind, be a team guy, work extremely hard and if those things were done then absolutely his ice time was not going to be diminished by any way, shape or form.”
Ottawa general manager Bryan Murray’s inability to swing a fair deal this summer means No. 15 could be just weeks away from a return to the nation’s capital.
Clouston said he’s preparing for that possibility. One issue Clouston wasn't ready to discuss was the status of Heatley's assistant captaincy, however.
“We’ll wait and see on that. Until we see the whites of his eyes in the dressing room, we’ll address it then.”
The-Leak (aka) kingwell (bka) JULES:
The Vancouver Canucks and goaltender Roberto Luongo are under a Sept. 13 deadline to agree to new contract terms. Luongo, who is attending Hockey Canada’s summer orientation camp for 2010 Olympic hopefuls, said he will not negotiate once the NHL team’s training camp begins at the University of British Columbia next month. He said he is unwilling to let his expiring contract become a daily distraction.
“We’re trying to get it done before camp,” Luongo said in Calgary yesterday. “If it doesn’t happen before camp, I will not be negotiating during the season. I don’t want to have that distraction.”
Yesterday, Canucks general manager Mike Gillis said a contract extension is not finished, but he is confident the sides will arrive at terms over the next 18 days.
“I’d prefer that we have it wrapped up [by camp],” Gillis said. “We’re all confident that we’re moving in the right direction.”
Gillis and Luongo denied reports yesterday that said the sides had agreed to a six-year pact worth $6.5-million (U.S.) a season. Luongo, 30, is entering the final year of his current deal, and is to earn $7.5-million.
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