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Sharks: Burns Likes Us, He Really Likes Us

I know I said I would focus on the Flyers here but the Flyers aren’t doing anything and the Sharks are.  So here’s my post from Kukla’s Korner this morning: Burns signed a 5 year extension with the San Jose … Continue reading

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Arbit Day

There isn’t really an arbitration day.  It’s just that today the arbitration hearings start between NHL teams and the RFAs they couldn’t come to terms with before now.  The hearing between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Teddy Purcell has been … Continue reading

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In the Works?

I interrupt my plodding effort to summarize Doug Wilson’s old news signings for this development: The Sharks signed Ben Guite. Until capgeek has it up, I can’t tell by the contract what their intent was, AHL depth or a guy … Continue reading

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Two: Brent Burns

This was really Wilson’s first move this summer, but it’s more difficult for me to sort out than the Vandermeer signing.  This doesn’t mean I’m going to make any sense of it now. It was one of the moves I … Continue reading

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One: Jim Vandermeer

Sharks Sign Defenseman Jim Vandermeer To A One Year Deal Wilson began his free agent acquisition project with the least high profile of the group so far.  Of Jim Vandermeer, he said: “We were looking for something specific and I … Continue reading

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And on the seventh day…

Doug Wilson traded Dany Heatley for Martin Havlat.  All right, so it’s the third day of NHL free agency 2011, but it is a Sunday. For Sharks fans, the magnitude of this trade is sort of difficult to describe.  Heatley … Continue reading

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Free Agency 2011, Day 1.5: The good, the bad, and the in between

Good News: Jagr’s a Flyer. Boosh has a contract (CAR), as do Roloson (TB), Mayers (CHI), Theodore (FLA), Smith (PHX), Eager (EDM), Carcillo (CHI), and O’Donnell (CHI). Even Mike Commodore, on the day he was waived yet again by Columbus, … Continue reading

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