Jackets Tried To Sign Jagr
The Blue Jackets, looking for top six forward help even before they traded franchise winger Rick Nash in July, attempted to make a splash in free agency by signing an NHL legend.
The Jackets extended a one-year, $4.2 million offer to future Hall-of-Fame winger Jaromir Jagr, The Dispatch has learned. GM Scott Howson confirmed the offer, but didn’t wish to comment further. Jagr, who turned 40 in February, signed a one-year, $4.5 million contract with the Dallas Stars on July 3.
Blue Jackets senior adviser Craig Patrick, who drafted Jagr with the No. 5 overall pick in 1990 when he was GM of the Pittsburgh Penguins, would have had a heavy hand in the decision to make Jagr an offer.
Seen as a temperamental, flighty wunderkind early in his career, Jagr has become one of the NHL’s renaissance men in recent years. After playing three seasons in the KHL, Jagr returned to the NHL in 2011-12 last season and had a very good season with the Philadelphia Flyers: 19-35-54 in 73 games. He also drew raves for his work ethic and mentoring of young players, including former Jacket Jake Voracek.
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What do these 4 teams have in common, which is unique to the other 26 teams? (Trivia)
Blue Jackets
Devils
Panthers
Red Wings
???
Lousy attendance rates…..
I was going to say they all lost their captain but the panthers didn’t have one last season.
93Killer you are correct. They didn’t have one last season, and still haven’t named one. So those are currently the only 4 teams in the NHL without a captain.
They should have named one during the post season and hoped for some spark/team chemistry.
Why not Weiss? He was drafted there over a decade ago, and he’s probably their best all around player.
For Detroit I’d go with the obvious Zetterberg. Unless someone thinks Kronwall or Datsyuk would be better picks, who else?
The Jackets could go with Umberger or Prospal maybe, but I think they’ll go with Jack Johnson. He’s young, can log big minutes, produce decent numbers, and he could be a big part of a long term plan.
Devils could go back to Elias or throw it on Kovalchuk, not sure they’d want that, but maybe. Not seeing any other strong candidates here.
Blue Jackets – Johnson wait some time for Murray.
Devils – Elias or Larsson maybe Kovi
Panthers – Weiss Gubranson could step up or wait on Huberdeau
Red Wings Zetterberg or Pavel.
Interesting acknowledgements on Larsson and Gudbransson. Garbriel Landeskog has given hope to all 20 and under Swedes I guess.
Heh, so if the Devils had won in the final, would they have been the first team to with the cup without a captain?
… Looked it up and apparently the Bruins did it twice in the 70s.
Trivia!!
Parise was their captain.
Devils lost their captain when free agency started. They had Parise for the post season.
Guys, keep posting more trivia please.
Parise, duh. Well, either way.
This one is easy to look up, but it’s a fun mental exercise. How many team names in the NHL (or other leagues for that matter) don’t end in ‘s’.
For the record, it’s officially the Carolina HurricaneS not the Hurricane.
I believe there are 3 of em.
No cheating now!
Avs, Wild I thought of right away…. hmmm having a hard time with this third one…. oh got it T-Bay
I find it kind of funny that we use the shortened Avs to refer to Avalance. Where did that ‘s’ come from?
Okay, I’ve got two more.
How many teams have only won the cup once? (either only active teams, or all time, whatever)
How many teams have a perfect record in the finals appearances? (since this one is pretty easy, name the team or teams)
And still, no cheating!!
Okay…The Kings just won their first, so they’ve only won 1. Hurricanes, Lightning, Flames, Ducks, Stars.
Did I miss any?
And as far as I know only the Kings are perfect in the Cup finals…or are they? I don’t know about this one.
Nope, not the kings… remember ’93?
lol, do you? 😀
Kerry Fraser… -_-
Anyone remember who scored the 1st goal at the ACC? Clue: He came from Quebec in the Sundin trade about 5 years earlier.
Pfft, that’s a tough one. Was it a player in the trade, or a player drafted from the pick that went over to the leafs? (resisting the temptation to google this)
Also, I didn’t know this off hand, but who scored the last goal at MLG?
Bob Probert scored the last goal at MLG. No clue who scored the first at the ACC.
the 1st goal ever scored at the acc was by todd warriner
haha i’m not even a leafs fan …………just thought i’d take a chance and answer that question! that was a good one mojo these trivia questions are fun keep them coming?
here is one for you
who is the only defenceman to ever score a hat trick in a stanley cup finals game?
Eric Desjardins.
and who has vaulted into one of the most overpaid players in the NHL?
Brad Marchand. Brutal. he is a good player. but not more than twice the player of Alex Burrows is he? And Burrows was going to be unrestricted when he re-upped wasn’t he?
Wow 25 comments deleted over night
Weird
Getting harder and harder to justify using this forum anymore.
It’s been a boring off season here at Hockey trade rumors. Nobody is really posting anything, not that there’s anything to post. I remember last year there were a lot of topics with 200 comments.
Yeah, I think the site change might have hurt the dialogue a bit. I mean, as far as I know we can’t submit articles, or even see the articles we may have previously submitted. I enjoyed writing opinion pieces that sometime generated some comments, but now all we seem to have is news stories that are re-posted by Trade Man. I don’t come to this site for news, I come for discussion, and even though the news does generate some discussion it always seemed to be the opinions/questions/predictions that generated the longest and most interesting threads.
And the censorship can’t help, it pissed me off enough to use other forums, notably the Something Awful NHL thread.
Yeah you just need to hijack threads in order to create your own articles really…. I had quite a few good little discussion articles I wrote….
The new format has hurt the volume and the depth of discussion I feel…. But my problem remains this… In the 5-6 some odd years I’ve been coming here, I’ve had the best time discussing hockey matters here… No where else ever compared… I can’t go anywhere else because there is just far too much stupidity and bias
There are some good threads here: http://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=122
I get what you mean though. I like this site because I know everyone and the discussions are usually informative and respectful (okay, maybe I get into it with LN91 now and again), that and the investment we’ve all put into it. Maybe it’ll get better over time.
Ya, LN91 is the only regular on here who acts childish, and Lafleur from time to time. But even both those guys are pretty good a lot of the time.
And yes, I’ve had my account here since 2003 and I’ve really enjoyed it. I think they’ll sort out the problems and this will be a good site again.