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December 5, 2016
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YEAR OF THE BONUS
IF YOU’RE WONDERING just where NHL players and their agents suspect the labor landscape is headed, just look at some of the recent contract signings. And the two cornerstones of the Calgary Flames are as good a reference point as you’re going to find. This past off-season, Sean Monahan and Johnny Gaudreau signed long-term deals that will keep both of them in Calgary until they’re just shy of their 29th birthdays. In Gaudreau’s six-year deal, only two of the years have signing bonus money. One of those was the first year of the deal and the other is 2020-21, when he’ll receive $3.5 million. Monahan’s seven-year deal has only one season in which he’ll receive a signing bonus, also in 2020-21, when he’ll get the same $3.5 million stipend as Gaudreau. There…
FOOTE FILLING SOME BIG SHOES
FOR DAILY PROSPECT COVERAGE, VISIT THN.COM CAL FOOTE PRACTICALLY can’t fail. Not only is he the son of an ex-NHLer, but he’s a defenseman for the WHL’s Kelowna Rockets, a franchise with a propensity for producing pro blueliners (Shea Weber, Tyler Myers, Tyson Barrie, Madison Bowey, this list is getting long as the years go by…). Oh, and Foote is 6-foot-4 and 210 pounds already. “Good offensive instincts, and he’s a righty,” said one scout. “With his speed and his stick, he’s got a lot of tools.” Foote was born in December, 1998, meaning he missed being eligible for the 2016 draft by three months. So he’ll be one of the older 18-year-olds in the 2017 draft. Despite being undrafted, he was already deemed advanced enough to play for Canada at a…
DOLLAR SAVERS
IT SEEMS LIKE just yesterday, or perhaps 14 yesterdays ago, that we ranked the NHL crease tandems from 1 to 30. Alas, it was indeed a fortnight ago, in our Goalie Issue, that Matt Larkin bravely wove the tapestry with a little help from his friends. In the same edition, we also provided the combined cap hit of each team’s netminding duo. Then one of our staff members (let’s call him ‘JK’) hit upon a tremendous idea: what if we combined the two lists a la peanut butter cups to come up with a delicious blocks-for-bucks super index? An idea crazy enough to work? We decided to put it to the test for this edition, the Money and Power Issue. It dovetails nicely with our theme and our NHL bang-for-bucks notes,…
PRONGER NEARING FORK IN THE ROAD
WITH KEN CAMPBELL@THNKENCAMPBELL WHEN THIS SEASON ends, Chris Pronger will have finally outlived his usefulness as an NHL player at the age of 42. He can obviously no longer defend the front of his net, scare the living bejeepers out of opponents with his recklessness or find the net with a shot from the blueline that somehow makes its way through a mass of arms and legs and bodies. And now that his seven-year contract has almost mercifully come to an end, economic bottom feeders such as the Arizona Coyotes can no longer use him for the sole purpose of elevating them to the lowest rung of the league’s salary structure. Man, that took a while. Pronger hasn’t played a game in more than five years, has been inducted into the Hall…
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