Blue Notes

Great read!. For all Isles and Rangers fans here, I did an opinion blog on the signing of Mark Streit vs. Wade Redden...go read it at:

http://islesnet.blogspot.com

Please leave a comment on the site and let me know what you think! Thank you!

me likey

http://youtube.com/watch?v=tyoriKeZbyk

Joe, me likey too. Although the choice of music for that little montage will haunt me until the day I die.

Looks like he has speed to burn, should fit well with Gomer. And, he doesn't mind driving to the net with or without the puck.

One other thing, anyone else going to miss Avery's double fist pump when he scored??? Loved it. Maybe Dubi should pick it up.

One more. To whomever posted that we trade Dubi and Bobby for Jay Bo, please stop. I want him as bad as the rest of you but not if we have to give up either of those two.

That's all, goodnight.

interesting bit on tyutin. according to the columbus dispatch, http://blog.dispatch.com/cbj/ his wife gave birth to their first child at 1:30 am on july 1st. guess it has been a coupla long, whirlwind days for the tyutin clan...

Raise your hand if you give a hoot about Justin and his "OHHH SO NEED OPINION".
I'm amazed that you think so highly of yourself that you take the time out of the day to scream it at the world.

I didn't read past the first couple of sentences, but if your opinion is so highly regard in the world of blogging than here's mine.
Man, for an Islanders fan you are really into the Rangers? I bet you only watch the Rangers 8 times a season, huh?
That's great. You're great. Good for you. really. wow.
no really. cool.

I could probably tell you a lot more about the Rangers then you could ever even tell me man. Just because I am an Islanders fan doesnt mean I just rant and rip on the Rangers. I am not here to rip on any team, I am here to talk hockey. It's unfortunate they let ignorant fans like you on blogs and comment boards like this. It's because of fans like you, who don't know much and act like they do, that all these comment-boards need to be monitored for pure stupidity. If you want to talk hockey, I would love to talk hockey. If you wan't to try and put someone down, go back to kindergarten. The fact you ripped on me, and then still went to the site tells me a lot about who you are. You don't have to go, I could care less about an opinion coming from someone ignorant in the first place. And if my comment about asking people to read something I wrote and give me an opinion really pissed you off that much, than you have some serious anger problems. Good luck with all of that!

I get pretty tired of all fans, Ranger and Islander alike, who get so wrapped up in the rivalry, it's pretty annoying.

I want the Rangers to win the Cup, not beat the Islanders, thank you very much.

Anyway, I think Marc Staal and Brandon Dubinsky are complete untouchables.

Since the drafting of Del Zotto, although he could be 2-3 years away from even seeing the Garden, to me Sanguinetti is not untouchable anymore.

I think I'd make pretty much any reasonable deal thrown at me for Jay Bouwmeester that did not include Staal or Dubinsky.

So, we have a lot of kids I'd be willing to package in a deal to get Jay Bo.

And, I tell you right now, Dan Fritsche is 5 years younger than Blair Betts and has scored 7 more goals in his career. 29-22.

I don't think people really realize that the 4th line most of us got real tired of the last couple of years of Hollweg, Betts and Orr has ceased to exist.

Dan Fritsche is your new 4th line center with any number of guys auditioning for the 4th line winger slots including Rissmiller, Voros, Byers, Jatmin and Greg Moore.

This team is busting out the seam of young hungry players who will be competing for 3rd and 4th line spots.

Training camp should be very interesting.

I will breathe a sigh of relief when Betts and Hollweg and even Orr are officially finally gone. Fritsche has a good chance of being a winger on top 3 lines. We have Rissmiller, Moore, Korpikoski, Anisimov, and Fritsche to take 3rd and 4th center spots. Gomez and Dubinsky are 1 and 2; Drury is not a centerman, he is a goalscoring winger.

But I have a bad feeling Sather intends to trade Dubinsky, hope I am wrong.

Also Sjostrom didn't impress me at all. Maybe because he was playing with garbage like Betts and Orr. And I didn't find his that speedy as adverised, and he wasn't very physical. I think it is likely he is outplayed in camp by 6 or six players and then should be traded or waived.

bob,

I think I have agreed with you on pretty much everything you have said the last few days or so.

It's pretty unbelievable.

Streit was a relegated to 14 minutes per game during the playoffs. Downright paranoid to put Streit on defense, the Habs put him on the 4th line and dressed 6 other d-man (all of whom received more ice time than Streit). And this is the man the Isles are giving 20 million to.

what the Isles are paying Streit doesn't matter one bit.

If they didn't do that, they may have had trouble hitting the 40 million a year salary floor requirement.

DUCKS' BURKE BLAMES SALARY RISE ON OILERS' LOWE

After signing free agent forward Corey Perry to a five-year extension worth $26.63 million on Tuesday, Ducks general manager Brian Burke had some choice words about the new salary climate in the NHL and Edmonton Oilers general manager Kevin Lowe.

Burke told the Los Angeles Times that the rise in salaries for young players can be traced back to Lowe.

"You go right now from entry-level to what used to be the third contract, thanks to two offer sheets from Kevin Lowe," Burke said to the Times.

"Most [general] managers don't like starting fights with any other managers. . Thanks to the Edmonton Oilers, the second contract has disappeared."

"They're all being re-signed at inflated prices," he explained to the newspaper. "Everything I said a year ago has come true. Every single word."

Burke and Lowe have been at odds since the Oilers put forth a five-year ($21.25 million) offer sheet to Group II restricted free agent Dustin Penner. The Ducks did not match and Penner became an Oiler.

At the time, Burke explained he had no problem with a team putting an offer sheet forward offer sheets but the money involved was the issue.

"I think [an offer sheet] it's a tool certainly a team is entitled to use," Burke said last July. "My issue here is this is the second time this year in my opinion Edmonton have offered a grossly inflated salary for a player, and it impacts on all 30 teams and I think it's an act of desperation by a general manager who is fighting to keep his job."

The Ducks' GM was also critical of the process employed by Lowe and the Oilers.

"I was not notified of this until an agent faxed it into us," Burke told Canadian Press in July. "I thought Kevin would have called me and told me it was coming. I thought that was gutless."

The verbal jabs continued and on the TSN 2007/08 season preview show the Ducks GM had more to say.

"If I had run my team into the sewer like that I wouldn't throw a grenade at the other 29 teams and my own indirectly," said Burke.

http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=242347&lid=sublink01&lpos=headlines_nhl

9:26PM Columbus Blue Jackets sign UFA winger Kristian Huselius (4-year, $4.75 million).

Maybe over priced per year, but hes a good foward and woulda loved to see him sign here.

bob, You are joking about Sjostrom, right? Down the stretch, he played with fire in his belly! Not speedy? Can't hit? What the sam-hill are you on? I saw him play aggressively every shift, outskate almost everyone, Throw his body, and most importantly, Never Quit on a play...Open your eyes.