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Rangers Player Grades: Part III
With both the Rangers Defense and Offense graded and off to summer vacation, it is time to wrap up this review process with those who chipped in a bit over the 2008-2009 season but weren't around all the time for one reason or another. Any player that played a single...
Grading the Front Office Moves: Free Agency
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UFA Option: Dmitri Kalinin
A number of commentators around the Oilers end of the internet have stressed the need to acquire a veteran defenseman. The UFA crop is short on distinguished veterans, so if the Oilers are going to acquire one, it may be in the same manner as the Steve Staios signing- i.e. picking up an underrated...
Sabres Free Agent Outlook
I took a look at some of the Sabres restricted free agents individually but I will complete a look at the in house free agents with a simple summary. In all the Sabres have five restricted free agents and five unrestricted free agents to talk about and we took a look at four thus far. If you are...
Russia wins gold
It seemed like Canada would have no problem winning the gold medal on home soil. It was the first time the World Championships were played on Canadian soil and the home team had not lost a game before playing Russia for the Gold Medal. After two periods it looked like all the predictions would be...
Injuries pile up
The Buffalo Bills aren't the only team to have been struck by the injury bug...it's hitting the Sabres as well. The list of Sabres who are injured include Tim Connolly, Paul Gaustad, Max Afinogenov, Andrew Peters, and Dmitri Kalinin. Connolly has not been able to play at all in the pre-season and...
Scanning the Web
It's only two more days until the Buffalo Sabres will take the ice to begin training camp for the 2007-2008 season. The anticipation is growing and we are all getting extremely excited to watch some hockey (in fact I told my wife yesterday to start saving the pennies because I needed to get Center...










