CBSS Swiss club Geneva-Servette has signed NHL veteran Richard Park to a three-year contract. Coach Chris McSorley says the 34-year-old winger chose Geneva-Servette over competing offers from the NHL and elsewhere in Europe. Park has played over 16 seasons in the NHL, including the past four with the New York Islanders. McSorley tells the Associated [...]
Posted on September 9th, 2010 by admin
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CBSSports.com Minnesota Wild center James Sheppard has a fractured left kneecap and there is no timetable for his return. The team disclosed the injury Tuesday. It said Sheppard was hurt in an off-ice accident on Saturday night in Vail, Colo., but did not say what happened. The timing couldnt be much worse for Sheppard, a [...]
Posted on September 8th, 2010 by admin
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CBSSports. The NHL has signed off on Ilya Kovalchuks latest contract with the New Jersey Devils. Five weeks after rejecting the Russians landmark 17-year, $102 million contract with the Devils, the league approved a revised 15-year, $100 million deal on Friday after reaching an agreement with the NHL Players Association on an amendment covering long-term [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2010 by admin
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CBSSports.com The San Jose Sharks signed the goalie who helped knock them out of the playoffs, agreeing to a one-year, $2 million deal with Antti Niemi on Thursday. Niemi joins fellow Finnish netminder Antero Niittymaki in San Jose as the replacements for longtime starter Evgeni Nabokov. Niittymaki signed a two-year, $4 million deal on the [...]
Posted on September 3rd, 2010 by admin
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CBSSpo The NHL has extended its deadline to Friday for approving Ilya Kovalchuks $100 million, 15-year contract with the New Jersey Devils. The league and the NHL Players Association announced the new deadline Wednesday. The NHL has already rejected a front-loaded, 17-year deal valued at $102 million because the structure of the deal would have [...]
Posted on September 2nd, 2010 by admin
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CBSSpo Chris Chelios, the longest-tenured defenseman in NHL history, is finally hanging up his skates. After 26 NHL seasons and three Stanley Cups, Chelios announced his retirement Tuesday at the age of 48. “I guess Ive been dreading this day for a long time,” he said at a news conference in Detroit. Chelios, who won [...]
Posted on September 1st, 2010 by admin
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CBSSports.com The Phoenix Coyotes have re-signed right wing Lee Stempniak to a two-year contract. Details of the contract were not released. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Stempniak, 27, arrived in Arizona in a trade deadline deal with Toronto last season and gave the Coyotes a playoff-run boost with 14 goals and four assists [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2010 by admin
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CBSSpor NHL deputy commissioner Bill Daly says the New Jersey Devils have submitted a new contract to the league for Russian star Ilya Kovalchuk. The league has five days to approve or reject the deal, which media reports say amounts to $100 million over 15 years. A month ago, the NHL rejected a 17-year, $102 [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2010 by admin
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CBSSports The Pittsburgh Penguins wont re-sign forward Bill Guerin, preferring instead to give several young forwards a chance to play on one of their top lines. The 39-year-old Guerin scored 21 goals last season and had four more during the playoffs while often playing on Sidney Crosbys line. He has 429 goals and 427 assists [...]
Posted on August 27th, 2010 by admin
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CBSSports. The Los Angeles Kings have agreed to terms on a two-year contract with unrestricted free agent defenseman Willie Mitchell. The team announced the deal Wednesday. Mitchell had four goals, eight assists and 48 penalty minutes in 48 games with Vancouver last season. The 32-year-old was sidelined for 34 games after sustaining a concussion on [...]
Posted on August 26th, 2010 by admin
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