By AJ Petronzi
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3:30 pm: The first 30 minutes after the deadline has doubled the number of trades and revealed that the rumored trade of Jason Arnott to the Washington Capitals did indeed go through. Odds are that a few more deals might come sliding through, but likely by four everything should be quite.
3:00 pm: The deadline has come and only seven trades have been made around the NHL. However, there are still trades that could have been submitted and might not be made known until after the deadline.
2:30 pm: The NHL is heating up, but let’s have some fun of our own. We're going to peel back the salary cap and look at the kind of trades we saw from Ken Holland a decade ago. How would you feel about these trades involving some of the rumored names around the NHL that I feel would have brought Stanley home to Detroit?
Trade 1: Paul Stastny and John-Michael Liles from Colorado to Detroit for Jonathan Ericsson and Valterri Filppula or Jiri Hudler.
Trade 2: Brad Richards from Dallas to Detroit for Jan Mursak and 2011 1st Round Draft Pick.
No love lost for Ericsson, Filppula, Hudler, or Mursak, but this would have been a good deadline day with these deals.
2:05 pm: With less than an hour to the deadline, the rumor wagon's broken down and the NHL doesn't even have speculation deals in the works right now (At least none that have made it to the blogosphere). This last hour looks likely to be as exciting and fast-paced at the 100-meter dash at the senior Olympics.
1:30 pm: Now that the Howard deal is official, signed, and ancient history as far as Deadline day news, let’s take a quick look at what it'll mean moving forward next season. The cap-starved Red Wings will have to shave at least one and a half million from next year’s payroll in order to make the cap, if it doesn't go up. With Chris Osgood saying he'd like to be back next year, it's likely he'll take some concessions, but that's nit-picky stuff. The Wings are going to be forced to move a multi-million dollar player, likely a forward, or let someone walk. Be prepared to possibly see Ken Holland drop a high dollar prospect moving forward in the next hour and a half to compensate for Howard's salary increase.
Lunch Break Update: Sources are saying the deal with Jimmy Howard has gone through. The two year deal worth roughly five million will make Howard the highest paid goalie for the Wings since the trade deadline and will make his cap hit around 2.5 million, just shy of a two million dollar increase from this season.
Morning Rumor Wagon: Despite the rumors that the Red Wings will be quiet today at the NHL trade deadline, it looks like the Wings might be making a "trade." The Wings might be close to trading Jimmy Howard's current contract to the recycle bin in favor of a two-year extension.
Howard, who leads the NHL in wins at the deadline, has been a little shaky as of late, but a contract extension with Howard is about as likely as a cloudy winter day in the D. At this point, it’s probably just a matter of waiting for Howard to get a shower in after the morning skate to get this deal done.
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3:30 pm: The first 30 minutes after the deadline has doubled the number of trades and revealed that the rumored trade of Jason Arnott to the Washington Capitals did indeed go through. Odds are that a few more deals might come sliding through, but likely by four everything should be quite.
3:00 pm: The deadline has come and only seven trades have been made around the NHL. However, there are still trades that could have been submitted and might not be made known until after the deadline.
2:30 pm: The NHL is heating up, but let’s have some fun of our own. We're going to peel back the salary cap and look at the kind of trades we saw from Ken Holland a decade ago. How would you feel about these trades involving some of the rumored names around the NHL that I feel would have brought Stanley home to Detroit?
Trade 1: Paul Stastny and John-Michael Liles from Colorado to Detroit for Jonathan Ericsson and Valterri Filppula or Jiri Hudler.
Trade 2: Brad Richards from Dallas to Detroit for Jan Mursak and 2011 1st Round Draft Pick.
No love lost for Ericsson, Filppula, Hudler, or Mursak, but this would have been a good deadline day with these deals.
2:05 pm: With less than an hour to the deadline, the rumor wagon's broken down and the NHL doesn't even have speculation deals in the works right now (At least none that have made it to the blogosphere). This last hour looks likely to be as exciting and fast-paced at the 100-meter dash at the senior Olympics.
1:30 pm: Now that the Howard deal is official, signed, and ancient history as far as Deadline day news, let’s take a quick look at what it'll mean moving forward next season. The cap-starved Red Wings will have to shave at least one and a half million from next year’s payroll in order to make the cap, if it doesn't go up. With Chris Osgood saying he'd like to be back next year, it's likely he'll take some concessions, but that's nit-picky stuff. The Wings are going to be forced to move a multi-million dollar player, likely a forward, or let someone walk. Be prepared to possibly see Ken Holland drop a high dollar prospect moving forward in the next hour and a half to compensate for Howard's salary increase.
Lunch Break Update: Sources are saying the deal with Jimmy Howard has gone through. The two year deal worth roughly five million will make Howard the highest paid goalie for the Wings since the trade deadline and will make his cap hit around 2.5 million, just shy of a two million dollar increase from this season.
Morning Rumor Wagon: Despite the rumors that the Red Wings will be quiet today at the NHL trade deadline, it looks like the Wings might be making a "trade." The Wings might be close to trading Jimmy Howard's current contract to the recycle bin in favor of a two-year extension.
Howard, who leads the NHL in wins at the deadline, has been a little shaky as of late, but a contract extension with Howard is about as likely as a cloudy winter day in the D. At this point, it’s probably just a matter of waiting for Howard to get a shower in after the morning skate to get this deal done.
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