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Blake Wheeler awarded $2.2M from arbitration…


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Per Boston.com:

Blake Wheeler has been given a one-year, $2.2 million arbitration award. The decision was made today following Wheeler’s arbitration hearing on Tuesday in Toronto.

“Blake and I are pleased with the decision,” Matt Keator, Wheeler’s agent, said in a statement. “It came in the range we expected given the common comparables presented by both sides. He is ready to go to camp and have a great season.”

Wheeler has yet to sign a contract for the award, but that is considered a formality. The Bruins are not expected to walk away from the award.


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KHL President offers Kovalchuk 17-year deal, choice of team


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Per Puck Daddy:

As the NHL, NHLPA and the New Jersey Devils prepare for an arbitration dispute over Ilya Kovalchuk’s 17-year, $102 million contract, KHL President Alexander Medvedev wanted Kovy to know that Russia was still ready to accommodate him.He told Pavel Lysenkov of Sovetsky Sport that SKA St. Petersburg of KHL “easily offer Ilya Kovalchuk a contract for the same 17 years like New Jersey … If Kovalchuk likes number 17 that much.” He also said, “we will have an option so he can choose where to play at the dawn of his [KHL] career.”

On Kovalchuk’s arbitration, Medvedev said: “I haven’t spoken with him myself. I don’t want to make his difficult situation any worse. Instead of taking a rest and training, Kovalchuk has to get ready for a court hearing. And these cases, as we know, are unpredictable. There were a lot of instances when players chose to find a peaceful solution with clubs right before hearings.”

The KHL president also had words about two NHL players: Alex Frolov, who signed with the New York Rangers, and Denis Grebeshkov, who left the NHL for the KHL after failing to come to terms with the Nashville Predators.

On Frolov, via SovSport:

“I spoke with Alexander during the World Championship. I told him that he can always count on assistance from the league. SKA didn’t hide its interest. We know that a number of KHL clubs made offers to Frolov. But due to that fact that he only signed a one year deal [in the NHL], I am not ruling out that we will soon see Alexander Frolov in the KHL.”

On Grebeshkov, Medvedev said the following:

“I would like to congratulate all hockey fans, especially from St. Petersburg. One of our most renowned and titled defensemen Denis Grebeshkov is coming back to Russia. He is doing it at the best age for a player – in October he will be 27 years old. A number of KHL clubs showed interest in Grebeshkov. To be honest, we thought that if Denis was to return to Russia, it would be to his Yaroslavl. We didn’t even make any offers to him. But Grebeshkov himself wanted to continue his career in St. Petersburg. As soon as this topic came up, the SKA management without my participation quickly negotiated with the player’s agent Mark Gandler. And within a few days all contract terms were agreed upon.

“The contract is for two years on standard terms. It shows once again that modern hockey players clearly understand why this contract structure is in effect this year. There were no objections from Grebeshkov as to why the contract is a ‘70-30.’”

[According to the new KHL CBA, players get 70 percent of their contracts paid for the regular season, and the other 30% subject to club's playoff performance.]

SovSport asked the KHL president: Will Grebeshkov become the highest paid defensemen in SKA?

“No. And, as you know, we do not discuss the money in the media. I know that Grebeshkov wanted to continue his career in the NHL. And I think that Edmonton made a big mistake by sending to Nashville such a defenseman. Maybe Denis didn’t have a good season due to an injury. But he fully recovered and he didn’t look bad in the Stanley Cup playoffs, just like the rest of the Predators. Although we remember that Nashville was only in one round of the playoffs.”


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Antti Niemi and the Blackhawks headed to arbitration…


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Per NHL.com:

Antti Niemi’s future in Chicago remains in question as the clock ticks down to his scheduled arbitration hearing.

The fact that the Blackhawks and Niemi still haven’t hammered out a deal to keep the Stanley Cup-winning goalie in the Windy City likely means the two sides will meet before an arbitrator Thursday morning in a Toronto hotel conference room, where Niemi will be awarded a contract that the team can choose to accept or reject. The two sides reportedly exchanged their respective briefs and filed them to the arbitrator on Tuesday, per CBA rules.

Niemi and the Hawks can avoid arbitration by agreeing to a contract prior to the start of the hearing.

It all boils down to the $59.4 million salary cap for the 2010-11 season — a number that has led the Blackhawks to strip away several players from their Cup-winning roster.

“Most arbitrations are a disagreement in a player’s worth,” Niemi’s agent, Bill Zito, told ESPNChicago.com. “In this case, it’s about managing the cap.”

If the Hawks accept the terms of the arbitrator’s decision and sign Niemi, they will need to go searching for more salary cap relief. Niemi’s reward will likely exceed the $800,000 he reportedly made last season and the Blackhawks are already $403,256 over the salary cap, according to capgeek.com.

Should the Hawks reject the arbitrator’s decision and opt not to sign Niemi, the 26-year-old Finnish goalie would immediately become an unrestricted free agent.

Niemi would join a list of UFA goalies that already includes veterans Marty Turco and Jose Theodore, but it’s possible that those two have been in a holding pattern as NHL general managers looking for goalie help wait to find out if Niemi will become available.

Another option for the Blackhawks is to sign Niemi and then look to trade him. That would give them the choice of signing a goalie such as Turco or Theodore for less money than Niemi was awarded, or perhaps going with a tandem of Cristobal Huet and Corey Crawford, a prospect who has played four AHL seasons and a handful of NHL games.

The arbitrator is one of eight members of the National Academy of Arbitrators that was jointly appointed by the NHL and the NHLPA. According to the CBA, he or she must issue a decision within 48 hours of the close of the hearing. The Hawks will then have 48 hours to decide to accept the terms or let Niemi walk into unrestricted free agency.

The hearing will include both sides providing evidence to the arbitrator to help determine Niemi’s worth. The evidence can include Niemi’s overall performance, including stats, contributions, length of service with the club, special qualities such as leadership and comparable compensation with other players.

Niemi helped the Hawks win their first Cup since 1961 by going 16-6 with a .910 save percentage, 2.63 goals-against average and two shutouts during the 2010 playoffs. He went 26-7-4 with a .912 save percentage, 2.25 GAA and seven shutouts in 39 regular-season appearances.

Prior to the 2009-10 season, Niemi had played in only three NHL games. He was signed by the Blackhawks as an unrestricted free agent on May 5, 2008, after playing three professional seasons in Finland. Niemi went 18-14-3 for Rockford of the American Hockey League in 2008-09.

Of note also is that former Blackhawk and now current Atlanta wing Andrew Ladd is also scheduled for his salary arbitration Thursday.

Ladd’s move to the Thrashers resulted from the Hawks’ salary cap challenges when he was shipped to Atlanta on July 1 for prospect Ivan Vishnevskiy and a second-round draft pick in 2011. Kris Versteeg, Dustin Byfuglien, Ben Eager, Brent Sopel and Colin Fraser also have been dealt away in trades.



Justin Bieber isn’t a total tool…


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NHL 11 Updates: No-goals and overturned goals!


Found these over at Puck Daddy

Here is a video featuring some changes to the opening of games:


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