NHL: Free Agency, Trade, Injury, and Rookie News!
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Sens' Varada sidelined with knee injury
TSN.ca Staff
9/19/2005 4:17:23 PM
The Ottawa Senators will be without the services of winger Vaclav Varada for four to six weeks with a sprained MCL in his right knee.
The injury happened in the second period of last night's game in Toronto when Varada missed a check along the boards.
Varada, 29, missed 52 games in the 2003-2004 season with a left knee injury and finished with ten points in 30 games. The hard-driving forward has 162 points in 417 career NHL games.
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Sens' Varada sidelined with knee injury
TSN.ca Staff
9/19/2005 4:17:23 PM
The Ottawa Senators will be without the services of winger Vaclav Varada for four to six weeks with a sprained MCL in his right knee.
The injury happened in the second period of last night's game in Toronto when Varada missed a check along the boards.
Varada, 29, missed 52 games in the 2003-2004 season with a left knee injury and finished with ten points in 30 games. The hard-driving forward has 162 points in 417 career NHL games.
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Holland: Datsyuk returning to Red Wings
Associated Press
9/20/2005 1:25:49 AM
DETROIT (AP) - Pavel Datsyuk will return to the Detroit Red Wings for the upcoming season, general manager Ken Holland said Monday.
The Russian centre will sign with the team and be in Detroit by the weekend, ''unless I get a major curve thrown at me,'' Holland said.
Datsyuk is a restricted free agent, who signed a contract with Avangard Omsk, which was then matched by Moscow Dynamo, the team that Datsyuk played with during the lockout in 2004-05. Both teams are in the Russian SuperLeague.
Holland said he talked to Datsyuk's agent, Gary Greenstin, before Monday night's exhibition opener against the Tampa Bay Lightning. The two sides have been negotiating since before the NHL lockout began on Sept. 16, 2004.
''He said, 'We have a deal,''' Holland said of his conversation with Greenstin.
Detroit's last offer to Datsyuk was a two-year deal worth $3.8 million US a season.
Datsyuk, 27, had a breakthrough season in 2003-04, his third in the NHL and with the Red Wings. He tied for the team lead in scoring with 30 goals and 38 assists for 68 points.
But he hasn't scored a goal in the playoffs since Game 7 of the 2002 Western Conference Finals against the Colorado Avalanche. Detroit was swept by Anaheim in four games in the 2003 Stanley Cup Playoffs and eliminated in the second round in six games by the Calgary Flames in 2004.
''My expectation is that Pavel will be back to play for us,'' Holland said.
He also said an arbitration was scheduled for Tuesday to determine which of the Russian teams owned Datsyuk's rights.
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NHL Transactions for Monday, September 19th
Columbus Blue Jackets - Signed prospect right winger Adam Pineault to an entry-level contract.
Dallas Stars - Released centre Rob Hisey.
Los Angeles Kings - Released left winger Shawn Legault.
San Jose Sharks - Signed prospect winger Lukas Kaspar and prospect defenceman Brad Staubitz to entry-level contracts. Released defenceman Scott Ford.
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Blue Jackets sign 2004 second-round draft pick Adam Pineault
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September 19 @ 20:34, EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Columbus Blue Jackets signed right wing Adam Pineault, the club's second-round pick in the 2004 draft, on Monday.
The 19-year-old had 26 goals and 20 assists in 61 games with Moncton of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in 2004-05. The six-foot-one, 193-pound Pineault was the 46th overall pick in the draft. He played for Team USA at the 2005 World Junior Championships where he had an assist in seven games.
A native of Holyoke, Mass., he spent the 2003-04 season with Boston College, totalling four goals and four assists in 28 games.
Columbus Blue Jackets - Signed prospect right winger Adam Pineault to an entry-level contract.
Dallas Stars - Released centre Rob Hisey.
Los Angeles Kings - Released left winger Shawn Legault.
San Jose Sharks - Signed prospect winger Lukas Kaspar and prospect defenceman Brad Staubitz to entry-level contracts. Released defenceman Scott Ford.
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Blue Jackets sign 2004 second-round draft pick Adam Pineault
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September 19 @ 20:34, EST
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Columbus Blue Jackets signed right wing Adam Pineault, the club's second-round pick in the 2004 draft, on Monday.
The 19-year-old had 26 goals and 20 assists in 61 games with Moncton of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League in 2004-05. The six-foot-one, 193-pound Pineault was the 46th overall pick in the draft. He played for Team USA at the 2005 World Junior Championships where he had an assist in seven games.
A native of Holyoke, Mass., he spent the 2003-04 season with Boston College, totalling four goals and four assists in 28 games.
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Here's the latest on this weighty issue...
NHL Players' Association files grievance on behalf of Keith Tkachuk
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September 19 @ 19:04, EST
(CP) - The NHL Players' Association has filed a grievance on behalf of Keith Tkachuk after the star winger was suspended Friday by the St. Louis Blues for failing his team physical.
NHLPA spokesman Jonathan Weatherdon said Monday the union filed the grievance the same day as the suspension. "We have disagreed with the suspension and are continuing to work at resolving it," Tkachuk's agent, Bob Murray, said Monday from Boston.
"Hopefully we can find a quick and amicable resolution."
Blues general manager Larry Pleau had little to add Monday.
"There's really not much to say other than he didn't pass the physical and he's suspended," Pleau said from St. Louis, adding that Tkachuk can't come back until he passes the physical.
The Blues open the pre-season Wednesday at home against the Predators.
The 33-year-old power winger is the second-highest paid player in the NHL at $7.6 million US, tied with Nicklas Lidstrom and Alexei Yashin behind Jaromir Jagr's $8.36 million.
Murray doesn't understand why the Blues dealt with the situation in the manner they did.
"I guess the more common approach has been, if they feel a guy has come in and isn't properly conditioned they would bring him into camp and have him do extra work," said Murray.
Tkachuk, who is working out on his own in St. Louis, had 33 goals and 38 assists in 2003-04.
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Mat Cooke update...
Report: Cooke signs deal with Canucks
TSN.ca Staff
9/20/2005 12:53:24 PM
Matt Cooke appears to be returning to the Canucks.
According the Mojo 730 radio in Vancouver, the team has re-signed the winger to a three-year $4.6 million contract.
Cooke, who is a restricted free agent has not been at Canucks camp this season.
The 27-year old had 11 goals and 12 assists in 53 games with the Canucks in 2003-04.
Report: Cooke signs deal with Canucks
TSN.ca Staff
9/20/2005 12:53:24 PM
Matt Cooke appears to be returning to the Canucks.
According the Mojo 730 radio in Vancouver, the team has re-signed the winger to a three-year $4.6 million contract.
Cooke, who is a restricted free agent has not been at Canucks camp this season.
The 27-year old had 11 goals and 12 assists in 53 games with the Canucks in 2003-04.
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