The Calgary Flames have officially announced the signing of Mark Giordano, defencemen who played in Russia last season. He receives a three year one way contract. In other news it seems rumor mills are churning with the advent of another third - forth line LW coming to Calgary in Curtis Glencross.
http://flames.nhl.com/team/app/?service=page&page=NewsPage&articleid=367505
What's interesting about these deals is that Prust signs a one way deal for two years at about 500 000 million a year. Although Prust can fight, he's also not a heavyweight, something other teams in the NW are accomplishing. However, it seems Sutter won't be bobbing around for a heavyweight, which is fine, cause Detroit doesn't have one.
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July 1st marks the opening day in the NHL for free agency. What does that mean? For the pats couple years it's the first day struggling hockey teams can pay exorbitant amounts for semi-decent hockey players. We'll let TSN and the Calgary Herald point out the debacles for you--we'll stick to the moves that impacted the Flames.
With Edmonton pulling out all the free agent deals, Calgary jumped into the mix with another minor move acquiring Alberta boy Rene Bourque, a native of Lac La Biche, from Chicago. Bourque finished his third season with the Blackhawks in 07-08, recording 24 points from 10 goals and 14 assists.
To all our Canadian readers (which is most of you folks) we want to wish you a Happy Canada. Keep it real Canada! And away go the UFAs!
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This is how the NHL owners messed up the first time (actually, not for the first time.) Players who didn't deserve big contracts were for some reason being overpaid. What this does in the simplest terms is put marginal players at a premium thereby driving the whole salary expectations for all players up. At the end of the day, players hold out for more money, owners pay it out, and 5 years from now we wonder why there's a lockout. The only difference this time around is a 'salary cap' exists restricting the money teams can shell out (or it would be a free for all for rich teams.)
That begs the question, "who's overpriced" and who will become "overpaid" in the free agent market set to open July 1st. One thing is for sure, nobody is 'overpriced' if the team is worth spending the money. Take the case of Ryan Malone, a 51 point getter in a 'break out' season for the Penguins last season.
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The Calgary Flames announced the re-signing of centres Craig Conroy and Daymond Langkow, left wing Eric Nystrom and goaltender Curtis McElhinney. This answers some questions regarding the future of Conroy and the backup goaltending question. What is yet to be seen is which players on waivers will be picked up and which other UFAs will be signed (Vandermeer and Yelle?).
A complete outlook of the Flames' payroll situation will follow.
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