NHL News and Rumor Roundup – June 27, 2009
Dany keeps up hopes for trade
Burke all talk and no action
NO COUNTER OFFER FROM CANUCKS GM GILLIS IN TALKS WITH SEDINS
Dany keeps up hopes for trade
By DON BRENNAN
Agent J.P. Barry is not ready to discuss the what-ifs surrounding the possibility the Senators won’t be able to trade Dany
Heatley.
In an interview with Sportsnet’s Ian Mendes yesterday, Barry said Heatley remains hopeful the Senators will get a deal done
before July 1.
GM Bryan Murray has stated that if he can’t move Heatley before then, “this (trade) probably isn’t going to happen.”
That is not something the Heatley camp wants to consider at the moment.
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http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Hockey/NHL/Ottawa/2009/06/27/9954901-sun.html
Burke all talk and no action
MIKE ZEISBERGER, SUN MEDIA
The first salvo has been fired in the new chapter of the Battle of Ontario.
Thanks to Brian Burke.
As the Maple Leafs were preparing to make the seventh overall pick in Friday’s 2009 entry draft at the Bell Centre, the
Toronto general manager was seen chatting with Bryan Murray, the personable GM of the hated Ottawa Senators.
Burke asked Murray if the player the Sens were looking to pluck two picks later was London Knights forward Nazem Kadri.
When Murray acknowledged that, yes, the Sens liked Kadri, Burke replied, without sarcasm: “Well, we’re taking him.”
Give Burke this much: He accomplished one thing last night- he added some spice to a Senators-Leafs rivalry that, let’s face
it, has lacked some teeth the past few seasons.
Thirst for skill
Make no mistake, Kadri is a good player. He scored 25 goals in each of his past two Ontario Hockey League seasons and 93
total assists.
And for a Leafs franchise desperately thirsting for an influx of skill, he will be welcomed on to the roster with open arms.
Yet, there will be many in Leafs Nation who will be disappointed this morning because Burke was not able to land a bigger
fish- namely, John Tavares, who just happened to be Kadri’s roommate on the road with the Knights during the final couple of
months of the 2008-09 OHL season.
Heck, he could not even move up to the fifth spot to fulfil his Plan B, which was Brandon forward Brayden Schenn, brother of
Leafs defenceman Luke Schenn.
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http://www.ottawasun.com/sports/hockey/2009/06/27/9951296-sun.html
NO COUNTER OFFER FROM CANUCKS GM GILLIS IN TALKS WITH SEDINS
DARREN DREGER
Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis met with Henrik and Daniel Sedin’s agent, JP Barry, late Friday night following round one of the NHL Entry Draft.
The Canucks did not table a counter proposal to the Sedin’s recent 12-year, $63 million dollar pitch, and sources say Gillis gave no indication a counter offer is coming.
The Sedins are scheduled to become unrestricted free agents on July 1.
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http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=283055