Update on Remaining UFA's - Catching Up On Sloppy Seconds

by Derek Zona on Sep 16, 2009 1:15 PM MDT in News

After the initial wave of free agent signings in July, I looked at the remaining unrestricted free agents and cobbled together a competitive team with those leftovers.

With training camp open everywhere, here is an update on my sloppy seconds team.

Tanguay - Koivu - Kovalev
Moen - Malhotra* - Niedermayer*
Kotalik - Lang* - Sykora**
Veilleux - Moore* - Grier

Morris - Boynton
Foster - Beauchemin
Mara - Seidenberg

Biron
Legace**

The signed portion of this team has a cap hit of $30,725,000.

I mentioned some low cost alternatives and depth players in that post, "...Betts*, Yelle, Labarbera, Perrin*, Pyatt*, McKee, Tollefson, Boullion*..." Their cap hit totals $3,550,000 thus far.

*Unsigned
**Training Camp Tryout

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Malhotra to camp in San Jose (g/t Lowetide)

A posse ad esse.

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by Jonathan Willis on Sep 17, 2009 12:02 AM MDT reply actions

That team is almost all Hab rejects.

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by raventalon40 on Sep 17, 2009 8:55 AM MDT reply actions

Rejects

Obviously they weren’t small enough for Gainey.

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by Derek Zona on Sep 17, 2009 9:36 AM MDT up reply actions

I’m still fucking pissed at Gainey for blowing up a team that didn’t need blowing up, and going all Glen Sather on us in replacing them.

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by Doogie2K on Sep 17, 2009 9:45 AM MDT up reply actions

Gomez was a fine acquisition – the rest…

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by Derek Zona on Sep 17, 2009 10:43 AM MDT up reply actions

Gomez and Gionta were two thirds of a pretty fine trio in Jersey (the put all your EGGs in one basket line) and I would anticipate pretty easy chemistry there. Unfortunately, Michael Cammalleri will never be mistaken for Patrik Elias, so I would expect he will form the nucleus of the second scoring line. Not sure who they’ll line up with GG; my first thought was “maybe Higgins” and then I remembered “maybe not Higgins”. I still am having trouble believing the player assets that Gainey surrendered in acquiring the Gomez millstone. (I would have had the exact same problem with the Heatley trade had it gone down.)

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by Bruce McCurdy on Sep 17, 2009 2:41 PM MDT up reply actions

I think Gomez and Gionta would have been fine.

Adding a third midget…

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by Derek Zona on Sep 17, 2009 3:15 PM MDT up reply actions

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