Official 2007 NHL Offseason Thread

[Triumph36]

The playoffs are over - not the league's best playoffs, but not every year can be 1994.

This offseason doesn't figure to be a bonanza, but there are several good centers available in free agency. The salary cap is supposed to be increasing from anywhere between 48 and 52 million - this means a lot of teams are going to be signing a lot of guys for too much money.

Here's a list of free agents (not a rickroll, even though I wanted to): 2007 NHL Free Agents

[Wes Mantooth]

Niklas Backstrom, just signed a two year ($6.2)deal with the Wild. He would have got more had he hit the free agent market.

Here are some of the bigger names on the list...
BUF
Daniel Briere
Chris Drury
DAL
Ladislav Nagy
DET
Robert Lang
Chris Chelios
Mathieu Schneider
MON
Sheldon Souray
NAS
Peter Forsberg
Scott Hartnell
Paul Kariya
NJ
Scott Gomez
Brian Rafalski
NYI
Jason Blake
Ryan Smyth
NYR
Michael Nylander
Brendan Shanahan
Martin Straka
OTT
Mike Comrie
PITT
Mark Recchi
TOR
Mats Sundin
Mike Peca

[lozen]

Edmonton has to go out and sign a few free agents. They also have a ton of draft picks to trade for also.

Comrie had a terrible playoffs and that will hurt him

[4 High]

Islanders better resign Smyth and Blake. I doubt they will be able to do much else outside that, but one can hope. At least Cashin is gone.

[Wes Mantooth]

Isles may be close to $20 mil under the cap this season, they should be able to sign some decent players.

[Pudge714]

I'm really happy the Leafs aren't going to try and improve their team and resign guys like Antropov for 2yr/4m deals.

[DonkeyKongSr]

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Niklas Backstrom, just signed a two year ($6.2)deal with the Wild. He would have got more had he hit the free agent market.

Here are some of the bigger names on the list...
BUF
Daniel Briere
Chris Drury
DAL
Ladislav Nagy
DET
Robert Lang
Chris Chelios
Mathieu Schneider
MON
Sheldon Souray
NAS
Peter Forsberg
Scott Hartnell
Paul Kariya
NJ
Scott Gomez
Brian Rafalski
NYI
Jason Blake
Ryan Smyth
NYR
Michael Nylander
Brendan Shanahan
Martin Straka
OTT
Mike Comrie
PITT
Mark Recchi
TOR
Mats Sundin
Mike Peca

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Umm, you forget Giguere, far and away the best goalie on the market, especially with Backstrom locked up. Actually, I guess Hasek is available again too, but Giguere is the best long term goalie available. I think the dropoff after those two goes to David Aebishcer.

[B00T]

Am I the only Ranger fan who is praying they don't resign Nylander?

[Triumph36]

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I'm really happy the Leafs aren't going to try and improve their team and resign guys like Antropov for 2yr/4m deals.

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huh? this is a good signing. antropov is a big, solid player - to lock him up at this price is a coup.

same old leafs would be to sign jeff o'neill.

also, nylander isn't that good but he's good for the price. if the rangers are looking to make serious upgrades on the blueline, they won't be able to afford one of the top-flight centers on the market.

[Hold'em 07]

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Am I the only Ranger fan who is praying they don't resign Nylander?

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What??? Explain.

All we need to do is get him a hypnotist to tell him to shoot at least 5 times a game.