NHL News: Rick Nash resigns with Columbus Blue Jackets

Also a potential Holy Crap story for the blackhawks.

From TSN:
"Sources tell TSN the NHL and the NHLPA are investigating what might have been an enormous mistake by the Chicago Blackhawks.

Chicago tendered qualifying offers to several key players this week, including Kris Versteeg, Cam Barker, Ben Eager, Colin Fraser, Aaron Johnson and Troy Brouwer, however the investigation underway is to determiner whether the qualifying offers were filed correctly.

If not, there is the remote possibility the qualifying offers could be ruled invalid and the players listed above, conceivably, could be deemed unrestricted free agents because of the blunder.

There are few details, but one source says the players involved didn’t receive the necessary notification of the offers."

If this is true i would definitely try to sign Versteeg and Barker even if it means dumping Zherdev and Rozi (we all want him gone anyway). Versteeg is more consistent if somewhat less talented than Z, but a 23 year old with a somewhat similar game to cally would be a great pickup for this team and adding Barker who gives us another young 23 year old big d-man who is experienced and would only further allow us to deal one of our d-prospects for a forward prospect.

Staal-Girardi
Redden-Gilroy
Barker-d-prospect

That is a solid crew and in a year will be even better when MDZ should be ready, maybe McDonagh and hopefully redden gone.

Hey Mleetch, in the future, when you find stories like this, do them up as Fan Posts, this way I can move them to the main page and everyone will see them, they will get more exposure that way.

As a matter of fact, if you want to do it as a Fan Post anyway, I’ll move it to the front page

Jim

Rick Nash isn’t a center.