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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knightfall" data-source="post: 2998509" data-attributes="member: 2012">From TSN.ca!Ice Chips for Wednesday, August 9> Forward Alexei Mikhnov has informed Russian club Yaroslavl that he wants to play in the NHL this season which means the 2000 first round draft pick of the Edmonton Oilers could be at training camp in September. The 24 year old is expected to sign a one year deal with the NHL club, likely worth $817,000 with a minor league clause... the Oilers have also begun contract talks with recently acquired forward Joffrey Lupul, who earned $949,000 in Anaheim last year... The Oilers have also expressed interest in free agent forward Petr Sykora, who played with Lupul in Anaheim before finishing the season with the Rangers. - Edmonton Journal> The Ducks have announced the retirement of right wing Jonathan Hedstrom, who left the team during last season's Stanley Cup playoffs because of family concerns in his native Sweden. Hedstrom collected 13 goals and 27 points in 79 regular-season games for the Ducks in 2005-06. He added one assist in three playoff games. Hedstrom had one year remaining on his contract at a salary-cap figure of $512,500, money that will not count against the Ducks' salary cap this season. - Orange County Register> The Coyotes and RoadRunners have reached an affiliation agreement for the 2006-07 season. The franchises clashed privately last year after the RoadRunners announced they would be returning to the Phoenix market after nine years, but the hatchet has apparently been buried. Per the affiliation, between four and eight RoadRunners players are guaranteed spots at this year's training camp for the Coyotes' top minor league franchise in San Antonio, and one RoadRunners player will play for the Coyotes entry in next month's rookie tournament in Los Angeles. GM Michael Barnett said a key element to the affiliation is that the Coyotes will be able to position an emergency goalkeeper with the RoadRunners in case one is needed to fill in at a Coyotes practice or possibly a game. The RoadRunners play in the ECHL, a 26-team league widely considered to be two levels below the NHL. Their home arena is US Airways Center, and former Coyotes forward Claude Lemieux is the team's president. - Arizona Republic> Jaromir Jagr considers his former accountant the Six Million Dollar Man. The former Penguins star sued accountant Gary Schick on Tuesday, demanding he turn over a tax form that was supposed to be filed with the IRS in 2003. The lawsuit claims that if Jagr does not get the form, it will cost him $6 million. Jagr's attorney, James A. Marchewka, insisted that Schick has refused for two years to turn over the paperwork, which concerns the hockey player's stock trading. Jagr has had previous tax problems. According to court records, the Internal Revenue Service filed tax liens against Jagr totalling more than $35,000 in 2002, $3.2 million in 2003 and $1.4 million in 2004. All of the liens have been satisfied, court records state. Jagr is appealing his 2003 tax return to the IRS, according to the lawsuit. Schick said he prepared that tax return. - Tribune Review> St. Louis Blues owner Dave Checketts, the former president of Madison Square Garden, was a serious contender as recently as 10 days ago to succeed Paul Tagliabue as NFL commissioner. The New York Daily News has learned that Checketts, the head of a group that bought the Blues in June, still was in contention when the NFL reduced the list to 11 candidates. League sources said Monday they believed Checketts, the Blues chairman, would have made a good commissioner, but after the 11 were interviewed in Detroit the week of July 24, Checketts did not make the cut to the final five announced July 30. - St Louis Post Dispatch</blockquote>

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