I just learned that defenseman Milan Jurcina and the Washington Capitals have come to an agreement on a two-year contract. The pact avoids an arbitration hearing that had been scheduled between the two sides for Monday.
If you’re keeping score at home, that’s 18 of 30 scheduled arbitration cases that have settled prior to going behind [...]
Here we go again. Edmonton general manager Kevin Lowe today signed Anaheim restricted free agent forward Dustin Penner to an offer sheet worth $21.5 million over five seasons. Ducks GM Brian Burke now has a week in which to either match the offer, or accept compensation from the Oilers in the form of three draft [...]
Maybe it’s a slow news day or maybe it’s the middle of July but the blogosphere AND the mainstream media seem to be in a big hurry to pile on the Staal brothers, Eric and Jordan, who got into a bit of a kerfuffle with Johnny Law after a Eric’s bachelor party last weekend.
I won’t [...]
Is finally in. Brooks Laich will be paid $725,000 for his services during the 2007-08 season. No definitive word yet on the one-way/two-way angle, but I’ll post that news as soon as I learn it.
Confirmed: It is a one-way deal.
There have been (and deservedly so) a lot of great things written and said about my late friend Dave Fay in the last week. But today from up north comes one of the most eloquent tributes of all.
Those of you who follow the Hershey Bears on a regular basis know what a terrific writer and [...]
At 9 a.m on Monday in Toronto, an arbitration hearing to determine Brooks Laich’s salary for the 2007-08 season was held. Laich, a two-year veteran of the NHL, earned $551,000 as a rookie in 2005-06 and earned $606,100 as a sophomore in the league last season.
Judging by some of the things being written [...]
My good friend Dmitry Chesnokov has once again spanned the globe to bring news from Russia. Moments ago, he sent the transcript of a conversation between Sovetksy Sport reporter Pavel Lysnekov (whom we had the pleasure of meeting while we were in Moscow earlier this year) and the Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin. Also contained in the [...]
There were many terrific comments and remembrances left after my previous blog post on the passing of Hall of Fame hockey writer Dave Fay. One of those comments requested my email address, which I supplied. And I’ll put it here as well, because my door is always open: mvogel@washcaps.com.
Turns out the person requesting my email [...]
Longtime Washington Times beat writer Dave Fay, the dean of Washington hockey writers, passed away last night after a long fight with cancer. He was 67. Dave covered the Caps since the inception of the Times in the early 1980s and knew virtually everyone and everything associated with Capitals hockey. His wife Pat put it [...]
Jason Morgan’s pro career began back in 1996-97. He was a 20-year-old kid center then, fresh from three seasons of junior hockey in the OHL and one summer past being the fifth-round (118th overall) choice of the Los Angeles Kings in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. Morgan spent most of that season with Phoenix of [...]
