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Smart money backs the Pens for the 2012-13 Stanley Cup Trophy
Here’s a
link to the Bovada Sportsbook which lists the Pittsburgh Penguins as the betting favorite to win the 2012-13 Stanley Cup championship.
Thoughts, reaction?
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After returning to Pittsburgh for the second time in his career, Richard Park will return to the Swiss League for the third separate time in the fall. The 36-year-old penalty killer scored seven goals and seven assists in 54 games for the Pens in 2011-12.
Few will remember, but history will note that Park scored a career-high four game-winning goals and registered the best shooting percentage (15.9) of his NHL time. Fifteen of his 102 career scores have come short-handed. A quick search shows that number matches up well against other penalty-killing specialist goals such as John Madden, who has potted 18 of 165 goals with a man down.
Park and Jaromir Jagr are the last remaining active members of Pittsburgh’s team from the lockout season of 1994-95.
A two-year contract with HC figures to take Park to the end of his career, but you never know.
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NY Rangers a favorite to land Phoenix Coyotes forward Shane Doan, the
New York Daily News reports.
On Tuesday, Doan’s agent, Terry Bross, confirmed that his client has visited only three teams during free agency: the Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers and Vancouver Canucks.
Bross confirmed that a team outside of New York has offered Doan a four-year deal worth at least $7 million per season, both a high price and long term for a player who turns 36 on Oct. 10 and racked up his lowest point total last season (50) since 2001-02. There is no telling whether that offer comes from a team in which Doan has interest, though, so there is no knowing what leverage it would create against the Blueshirts and GM Glen Sather.
If this agent thing doesn’t work out for Terry Bross, the NHL should seriously consider him for Public Relations job.
Nashville Predators coach Barry Trotz “knows” that the Predators on are on Shane Doan’s short list, according to
The Tennessean.
“I’ve been in contact with Shane Doan almost a month now. I keep in contact with him,” Trotz said. “To be quite honest I hope everything gets resolved in Phoenix and he retires as a Phoenix Coyote, but if it doesn’t, I know Nashville is on his short list.”
The article also says that Shea Weber does not have a no-trade or limited-movement clause in his 14-year contract but that Nashville and Weber are still having talks in that regard.
Followers of the Shane Doan saga may need to take one of
these before the end of the summer.
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