As you may know now, the final deal of the day from a Washington standpoint sends defenseman Jamie Heward to the Los Angeles Kings for a conditional pick in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.
The Caps will dress a lineup of seven defensemen and 11 forwards tonight, with Bryan Muir being the seventh defenseman. He will [...]
We’ll be going live with the Pre-Cap podcast in a few minutes. Normally a pregame show, we’ll use it to go over the deals that have been done and the ones the trickle through while we’re on the air.
I’ve only been in here for about 90 minutes, but George has talked to probably half of his peers from around the league in that time. He makes a lot of calls, he receives a lot of calls.
One more deal just got done here under the wire. It will be announced once it passes [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates over the last hour, as you no doubt know by now, Dainius Zubrus is a member of the Buffalo Sabres. He and defenseman Timo Helbling went to Buffalo for the Sabres’ No. 1 pick in 2007 and center Jiri Novotny, a former first-round choice. The Caps got more for [...]
The Good Ship Blueshirt is going nose down in the Atlantic. The Rangers have sent defenseman Aaron Ward to Boston, no word on the return yet. Ward had a little spat with Captain Bligh (Jaromir Jagr) a few weeks back. Since no one in their right mind would relieve the Rangers of Jagr’s contract, off [...]
The Guerin swap turned out not to be a three-way. The Sharks are making a game go of it, having swapped two first-rounders in the last three days. San Jose GM Doug Wilson has always had a knack for trading up on draft day, and moving those picks may make his patented move a bit [...]
Yes, the Caps and Zubrus are still talking. And movement is being made. But whether there is enough time remaining to close the gap that remains is questionable. Remember, the Caps need time to firm up/finalize a trade if they can’t sign Zubrus. So at some point soon, a deadline must be issued on one [...]
There are still four hours of shopping remaining before the NHL store closes for the season. Things are starting to happen, and usually the trickle of deals now is the appetizer for the flurry of swaps that is likely to take place between 2-3 pm.
Everyone had Gary Roberts going to Ottawa or Toronto, with Buffalo [...]
Nothing that happens in the NHL occurs in a vacuum. In the salary cap environment, every contract and every trade has a ripple effect on future contracts and trades, and that might be even more true at trade deadline time.
The deadline is still a bit more than 24 hours away, but some off-ice events of [...]
As of Thursday night’s NHL action, Caps center Dainius Zubrus stood 52nd in the NHL scoring race, tied with three others with (ironically enough) 52 points in that position. The Caps are interested in keeping Zubrus, and Zubrus is interested in staying in Washington. So it’s possible a contract extension could be announced between now [...]
