Lord of the Onion Rings Garrioch is looking forward to the new Elvis movie due out this week – Return of the King. Garrioch has had trouble lately, as when he parks his car on “Elvis Lives Lane” (actual Ottawa street name) to go to Newport Pizza, he is so tempted by the onion rings of the new Works location next door. To counteract this the Newport folks are coming out with a fried onion ring and hamburger pizza.
While waiting for Elvis, this is what Garrioch had to say in:
Lockout could send coaches to minors
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An interesting name has surfaced on the NHL's trade market in the form of Florida C Olli Jokinen. While it's not known if he's being shopped by Dudley, several teams have shown an interest in Jokinen, whose role could change with coach Mike Keenan fired. It's believed the Kings, Thrashers and Wings have all studied the possibility of acquiring Jokinen, who has been playing a tough game and comes with a reasonable $2-million (all terms US) salary. The word is the Panthers want a good, young player in return.
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Dudley always wants to trade for good, young players. Dudley gave Jokinen 20+ minutes of ice time last night (2-2 tie with Nashville, Jokinen 0 points – he has been relatively cold except for 1 goal, 1 assist in 4-2 win against Montreal) but for the right young player Dudley would move almost anybody.
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There's talk the Leafs may have restarted discussions with the Isles about C Michael Peca. He's expensive: Peca is making $4.25 million this year, $4.25 million next season and a whopping $5.25 million in 2004-05.
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Okay, “this year” is 03-04, then “next season” is 04-05, so it must be $5.25 million in 2005-06, not 2004-05, n’est pas? Peca was +2 with 1 goal, 1 assist last night. I don’t see the Islanders moving him.
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The Oilers are shopping tough guy Georges Laracque because he's getting only limited playing time and is pulling down $1.2 million. They'll get plenty of interest, but will want toughness in return.
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Big George had 7 PIMs in 3-3 tie against Coys Friday night (BG with less than 10 minutes ice time, -1) – guess total PIMs for BG so far this year, in 22 games – only 31 PIMs, not exactly enforcer stuff. Big George ain’t delivering the extra large pizza for the Oilers, so it would not be surprising to see him moved. He noted on his web site that Ottawa had a deal almost in place for him at the trade deadline last year.
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The name of Rangers C Eric Lindros has surfaced on the NHL's trade market as a possibility of being part of the deal to send Caps RW Jaromir Jagr to New York.
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A Larry Brook New York fries re-hash, without any added gravy.
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Who could be the next one out of Washington? Keep an eye on D Sergei Gonchar. He is scheduled to become a restricted free agent next year and has attracted interest from Dallas.
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Actually Gonchar has attracted interest from any team that wants D and can handle salary.
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The possibility exists there will be changes in Buffalo and RW Miroslav Satan could be on the move.
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Satan has only 13 points (5 assists) in 31 games this season, and is -15 – the only forward close to this is Kotalik with -7. D Zhitnik is -11, and no other D is close to this minus. This means that Satan and Zhitnik stink this year so far, and the “possibility exists” that one or both may be “on the move.” For comparison Briere is -2, Drury is -1, Brown is -2, Pyatt is +1, and Dumont is 0 so who have Satan and Zhitnik been playing with when ending up -15 and -11?
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The Avs could be in the market for a backup goalie and may make a pitch for Ottawa's Martin Prusek once he's healthy.
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This is added by Onion Rings King to provide something about the Sens, so ignore.
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The Coyotes have been shopping G Sean Burke, but the market is centred around the future of Detroit G Curtis Joseph at the moment.
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Leftovers, he’s said this before.
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There's talk the Caps could move C Robert Lang to Los Angeles to play with RW Ziggy Palffy.
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This I believe if the two teams can figure out the salary split to be paid by each team.
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The Isles are willing to move D Roman Hamrlik to the Lightning, but New York wants prospect C Alexander Svitov or LW Frederik Modin in return.
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The problem with the Lightning is they don’t want to take on much salary in a deal.
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If the Caps need defence, and they do, why not make a pitch for Ottawa D Shane Hnidy?
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Perhaps there are multiple Garriochs, and another one mentioned trading Gonchar above, and another one wrote this column:
Acquiring blueliner not a priority for Sens
Seems like the Sens will need to keep Hnidy for a while, n'est pas?
Also note this at the end:
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Trying to make changes, the Bruins tested the waters by putting former Senators LW Rob Zamuner on waivers last week. Since he's pulling down a $2-million US salary, Zamuner went unclaimed and the word is the B's are willing to eat part of his salary if a deal can be made.
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No surprise here.
Have a nice Return of the Sunday.
I speel like that before my morning coffee too.
