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More Featured Stories Flyers Team Report (Yahoo! Sports) Yahoo Sports - 09/08/2010 After weeks of silence, the Flyers' training facility in Voorhees, N.J., has come alive with sounds of skates cutting ice and pucks ringing off goalposts.
In his second-floor office that overlooks the rink, Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren is hoping his offseason moves will help the Flyers return to the Stanley Cup Final, something the Penguins and Red Wings managed in 2008 and 2009.
"I think we're deeper on defense, but I also think we've learned from the experience of the playoffs and I think we can use that to our advantage," Holmgren said. "I think the carrot that's hanging in front of them is we just went to the Final and there's a next step they need to take. Teams have done it." The Penguins lost to the Red Wings in the 2008 Final, then returned to beat... Sporting News NHL preview schedule (SportingNews.com) Yahoo Sports - 09/08/2010 Notice a chill in the air? September arrives and bring the return of the National Hockey League -- on the ice, not in boardrooms, conventional halls or hearing chambers. Feel free to cheer. Sporting News notes the change in season with its 2010-11 Hockey yearbook, which previews the marathon to next June's crowning of a new Stanley Cup winner. To mark the occasion, SN provides online looks at all 30 teams, leading up to the season's start -- which again this year is in Europe. Icy Bits: Senators in line for 2012 NHL All-Star Game (SportingNews.com) Yahoo Sports - 09/08/2010 Look for a Sept. 15 announcement giving the Ottawa Senators the 2012 All-Star Game. Commissioner Gary Bettman will be in Canada's capital that day for a luncheon. Also expected to attend, the Ottawa Sun reports, is Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, who reportedly was promised an All-Star weekend after the 2008 draft. The festivities would be in conjunction with the 20th anniversary of the Senators' return to the NHL. ... Free-agent forward Ryan Potulny landed a gig for next season, as the Chicago Tribune reports he signed with the Blackhawks. Which current players will own their sweater numbers in NHL? (Yahoo! Sports) Yahoo Sports - 09/07/2010 Hockey historian John Kreiser has done some of the most interesting hockey writing of the summer on NHL.com,... Blackhawks promote Bowman (AP) Yahoo Sports - 09/07/2010 General manager Stan Bowman has been promoted to vice president/general manager in a series of moves by the Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks. The 37-year-old Bowman became the youngest general manager in NHL history to win a Stanley Cup when the Blackhawks defeated the Philadelphia Flyers in June. What We Learned: Boss Bettman and the Kovalchuk contract fight (Yahoo! Sports) Yahoo Sports - 09/06/2010 Hello, this is a feature that will run through the entire season and aims to recap the weekend's events and... Suit threatened if Marc Savard contract is voided (SportingNews.com) Yahoo Sports - 09/04/2010 Boston Bruins center Marc Savard has had enough with speculation over whether the NHL might void his seven-year, $28 million contract. His agent, Larry Kelly, on Thursday threatened to sue the league if the deal is rejected. Savard signed his extension last season, at which time the league OK'd it. Now, following fallout from Ilya Kovalchuk's contracts with the New Jersey Devils, the league is poking into several long-term deals to see if they, too, violate terms of the collective bargaining agreement. Deal before dawn: The NHL, NHLPA CBA amendment is official (Yahoo! Sports) Yahoo Sports - 09/04/2010 News of a peace accord between the NHL and the NHLPA on long-term contracts hit the media at around 2:30 p.m. New CBA rules: Who came out ahead? (Yahoo! Sports) Yahoo Sports - 09/04/2010 The best news about the Ilya Kovalchuck contract resolution is that we can talk about hockey again. Bruins GM assures Marc Savard he won't be traded (SportingNews.com) Yahoo Sports - 09/04/2010 Apparently unsatisfied with the offers he received for Marc Savard, Boston Bruins general manager Peter Chiarelli on Friday said he won't be trading the high-priced center. "We told Marc we are not moving him and he is part of the organization," Chiarelli told ESPNBoston.com. Chiarelli acknowledged fielding proposals for Savard, who is one of the league's top playmakers. Chiarelli broke from his usual policy of not discussing trade rumors, saying he was addressing the Savard talk because it became public. |
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