Team Canada News:
- Everyone and their brother has told Mike Babcock who should be on the Canadian team.
- Eric Duhatschek tells readers which players are on the bubble of the Canadian roster.
- Make no mistake, this team is going to be younger than the 2006 version of Team Canada.
- How does a number one line of Sidney Crosy-Rick Nash-Jarome Iginla sound?
- Team Canada management wants Sidney Crosby to just go out and play, so it doesn’t seem he is a candidate to captain the 2010 Olympic team.
- Jarome Iginla has been mentioned as a terrific candidate for captain of the 2010 squad.
- It is amazing just how humble Sidney Crosby is, writes George Johnson.
- Chris Pronger says that Team Canada is going to play a far different style than it did in 2006.
- Who is going to start for Canada? Roberto Luongo or Martin Brodeur?
- Some people think the Team Canada goaltending job is Roberto Luongo’s to lose, writes Cam Cole.
- Speaking of Canadian goaltending, part of Marc-Andre Fleury can’t believe that he is competing with his idols to start for Team Canada.
- “I think we can take highly skilled players and ask them to fill a specific role. I don’t want to leave a really top NHL player, a top Canadian player, off the team to bring in a guy who has been customarily a third-line checking player or something like that,” said Canadian team director Steve Yzerman on Monday.
- Ryan Smyth has no illusions of his chances of making this team, explains Jim Matheson.
- Does Milan Lucic have any chance to make this squad?
Other NHL News:
- Long-time Ducks beat writer Dan Wood has been hired as the Ducks’ analyst on the team’s radio broadcasts.
- Thrashers GM Don Waddell is confident a deal with get done between him and Ilya Kovalchuk.
- No one has any issues with each other in the Hurricanes locker room in terms of the Aaron Ward/Scott Walker incident from last year’s playoffs, writes Chip Alexander.
- Brenden Morrow is at the Canadian orientation camp, and says his injured knee feels great.
- Here is the Wild roster for the team’s prospect tournament.
- Paul Martin doesn’t think his hamstring pull will force him to miss any time at New Jersey Devils training camp.
- Scott Stevens will have a very hands-on approach this year when it comes to teaching the Devils’ young defensemen.
- “It’s not my place to defend him,” said Jason Spezza about Dany Heatley’s desire to leave Ottawa.
- “I love playing in Canada. I think there were some Canadian teams on the list that I gave the Senators earlier in the summer,” said Dany Heatley in Calgary yesterday.
- Ken Warren of the Ottawa Citizen kind of feels bad for Cory Clouston.
- A federal appeals court has ruled that the state of Delaware’s plan to offer single-game betting violates federal law.
- In Coyotes news, Jim Balsillie has submitted an amended offer for buying and moving the Coyotes to Hamilton.
- With so much controversy surrounding his team all summer, give credit to Don Maloney for keeping the team moving in the right direction.
- Even if Evgeni Nabokov’s conversation with GM Doug Wilson was heated after the team’s first round exit, it seems to be behind both of them, writes David Pollak of the San Jose Mercury News.
- Tony Gallagher thinks that Roberto Luongo wants to finish his career in Vancouver.
- It sounds like the Canucks could be close to signing Mathieu Schneider to a one-year contract. (Writer’s note: If this report is true, I think it is a great move. The Canucks lack another top-six defenseman on the blue line and Schneider’s experience and puck-moving ability will certainly help–especially if/when Sami Salo has his usual injury problems. Granted, he isn’t as good as he once was defensively–or as a fast, but he’d certainly be an upgrade over what they have on the roster right now.)
