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The NHL has announced that the salary cap for the 2010-11 season will be $59.4 Million dollars and that each team must spend $43.4 Million (cap floor). It's hard to believe that 23 teams have already spent, at least, the cap floor amount of $43.4 Million dollars. On average, each NHL team has spent roughly $48 Million dollars and have committed salary to 18 players. Teams like Calgary, Philadelphia, Vancouver and Pittsburgh have ...

These are the top 15 NHL free agent players left on the market. With a flurry of signings last week when free agency opened we saw a very slow Fourth of July weekend in terms of signings and trades. But expect the floodgates to open this morning as we see many teams try to improve their clubs. There are still some big names on the market, and there is no lack ...

The Los Angeles Kings are reported to be out of the Ilya Kovalchuk sweepstakes. At one point, they seemed like the front-runners, but after a lucrative offer from the New York Islanders, the Kings have fled from the Russian superstar. Kings GM Dean Lombardi would not tell exactly why they removed their bid on the talented winger. "We took our best shot to meet his needs and the team's," Lombardi explained to the ...

The Rangers have been pretty busy since July 1, the first day of free agency. Although their moves have been under the radar, they have been filling out their roster quite well. Did they forget that there is a roster limit? Glen Sather may have his hands full coming into training camp. Prospects Evgeny Grachev and Dale Weiss are said to be NHL ready. It would be difficult not to offer ...

It has been repeated emphatically and often by Brian Burke that he believes in building a team in a certain way; a group of talented, scoring top six forwards and a bottom six of gritty, hard-hitting checkers.  Burke also believes in the importance of getting your goaltender situation figured out, then building up your blue-line.  Since he has already taken care of those two factors in ...

It's his third stint with the Leafs and Ron Wilson's trials as I like to call it are beginning to foreshadow an end to his career as a coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Ron Wilson was named the 27th head coach in Toronto Maple Leafs history on June 10, 2008. In his first season with Toronto, the Maple Leafs compiled a record of 34-35-13. Since then, his record has fallen to ...

After tons of speculation suggesting that highly sought after free agent sniper, Ilya Kovalchuk was going to sign with the Los Angeles Kings, the L.A. Times is reporting that they were informed by Kings’ general manager Dean Lombardi that Kovalchuk would not be headed to Tinseltown.“We took our best shot to meet his (Kovalchuk’s) needs and the teams”, Lombardi wrote to the L.A. Times via email.At this point there are ...

  While Lou Lamoriello battles other general managers over superstar left winger Ilya Kovalchuk, there is a curious question not being asked by Devils' analysts and fans. Why not spend their surplus of cash on a player who could potentially make more sense for the short and long term success of the franchise?   That player is none other than future star, standout U.S. Olympian, and New Jersey native right winger Bobby Ryan.   Ryan, ...

Bringing back Olli Jokinen is a huge gamble to say the least. The TSN panel covering free agent frenzy on July 1 was speechless when word broke Darryl Sutter was working on signing Jokinen. Calgary was speechless too. Tanguay back at $1.7 million wasn't a bad deal, only one year and it's cheap. He had decent chemistry with Iginla, but needed to shoot the puck more and could have added ...

Like his predecessors before him, Canucks' GM Mike Gillis made a couple of trades in the free agent market that will go down as his identifying mark of approval by the 'Nucks Nation. Brian Burke brought the Sedins and Dave Nonis on his watch—Roberto Luongo. Mike Gillis signed two top D-men that may end up getting the Canucks past a couple of second round playoff exits. Keith Ballard and Dan Hamhuis will challenge ...