Lots of candidates for GM award
The NHL General Manager of the Year award is pretty much an in-house salute, like the movie directors voting for best director that year. They do let a select few scribes and some league executives...
View ArticleBringing Grigorenko in a telling sign for Oilers
We knew Russian winger Nail Yakupov would be here to see the Oilers’ dressing room, be checked out physically and eat with the owner Daryl Katz. Defenceman Ryan Murray will get the same treatment...
View ArticleOilers can send guys to minors now
According to several reports, with a lockout impending, NHL teams have been notified there is a waiver window from now until 10 p.m. MDT Saturday to send organizational players to their minor league...
View ArticleRyan Murray and Oscar Klefbom shouldering pain
Canada’s junior team for the worlds in Russia over the Christmas break took a huge hit Tuesday when likely captain Ryan Murray was told the labrum tear in his shoulder would require surgery and put...
View ArticleMatty’s Short Shifts-Jagr won’t retire anytime soon
HIS ‘N THAT, BY THE NUMBERS: *Dallas Stars’ Jaromir Jagr has told people he’d like to play until he’s 50, which is another 10 years. We’re talking this year and maybe another in Dallas and probably the...
View ArticleWould Ryan Whitney be a fit in Ottawa with Karlsson out?
Ottawa GM Bryan Murray, who was wearing black as he told the media Thursday that the game’s best defenceman Erik Karlsson was gone for the season, jokingly said he’s getting lots of calls from...
View ArticleSo Brian Burke’s back with the Anaheim Ducks
There is one given in the NHL when a GM is fired during the season. Another one of the lodge-brothers will give GM X a scouting job because they’re usually thick as thieves, except if there’s a rogue...
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