winners and losers off the off season, who did well and who didnt?

Answer 1

WINNERS:

NY rangers = Picked up Gomez and Drury

Philidelphia Flyers = Traded for Joffrey Lupul and Jason Smyth. Picked up Danny Briere, Scott hartnell, and Kimmo Timonen.

Colorado Avalanche = Picked up Scott Hannan and Ryan Smyth.

Toronto Maple Leafs = Solved their Scoring and Goaltending problems with the additions of Vesa Toskala and Jason Blake.

St louis Blues = Brought back Keith Tkachuk, and Paul Kariya.

Edmonton Oilers = Although failing to acquire Tomas Vanek from Buffalo, Edmonton stole Dustin Penner from the Ducks, and acquired Sheldon Souray from the habs. Traded for Joni Pitkanen, Geoff Sanderson, and picked up Mathieu Garon.

L.A. Kings = Picked up Michal Handzus, Brad Stuart, Tom Preissing, Ladislav Nagy, and Kyle Calder.

LOSERS:

NY Islanders = Lost Ryan Smyth, Alexei Yashin and Jason Blake (big gap in offence now)

Buffalo = Lost Danny Briere, Chris Drury, and Dainius Zubrus to free agency. And were forced to sign Tomas Vanek to a big contract, wasting their Cap space.

New Jersey Devils = Lost Scott Gomez and Brian Rafalski to free agency

Nashville Predators = Lost their #1 goalie Tomas Vokoun. Lost Paul Kariya, Sheldon Brookbank, Scott Hartnell, and Kimmo Timonen.

San Jose Sharks = Lost Vesa Toskala, Scott Hannan, and Bill Guerin to Free Agency.

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Lucia F, the flames did nothing to improve? Like you mentioned they re-signed Iginla And Regehr which they needed to do. They signed Cory Sarich and Adrian Aucoin. And they signed Mike Keenan as Head Coach. How can you telll me they havent done anything but waste money?

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Hey Sensman, you wanna steal my answers any more budd? dude think of somthing yourself.

Answer 2

Winners

Los Angeles Kings
Edmonton Oilers
New York Rangers
Toronto Maple Leafs
Philadelphia Flyers
Montreal Canadiens
Florida Panthers
St Louis Blues

Losers

Buffalo Sabres
Nashville Predators
Tampa bay Lightning
Calgary Flames
New Jersey Devils

Answer 3

Yes the Rangers and the flyers both made a great job in making themselves stronger. As a Rangers fan I am very happy to get the players we got. The Blackhawks drafted Patrick Kane and made some good aquistions also. The Sabers hurt themselves by letting such talent get away and didin't do that much to come back to a dominate eastern team. It will be hard for them this year. The coyotes did nothing also the kings. The western teams will be the same as usually. It is almost here so we'll see just how well teams have done to try to win the cup. I look at the last few champions and see where they rated on salary as a team and well a few of them have been on the bottom half so just cause you sign markee players doesn't mean champions anymore. Still Go Rangers win the cup...

Answer 4

Philly and the NYR did pretty well for themselves. The Blackhawks drafting Pat Kane is worth a mention as far as a team going the right way, too. As far as I could tell, Phoenix and LA did virtually nothing whatsoever to improve, which was kinda sad considering how godawful they were last season. Then of course there's the Sabres. Brilliant management let the team's co-captains walk away, but at least they seem to have finally learned their lesson and have signed other key players to long-term deals and have canned their policy of not negotiating during the season.

Answer 5

Winners- NYR, Oilers, Phillidelphia, Toronto, Colorado, Detroit, St. Louis, Pens, Las Angeles,Capitals,Boston( Fernandez) ,

Nothing lost or gained - Flames, Sens, Ducks(If Neids or Teemu doesnt retire), Chicago, Atlanta, Columbus,Tampa Bay, Carolina,San Jose, Phoenix, Florida, Minnesota, Vancouver, Dallas

Losers- Montreal, New Jersey, NYI, Nashville, Buffalo,

Answer 6

I don't feel like reading every answer, so let me just say now, that anyone that says the bruins did well is crazy. I know that you are a bruins fan by your name, and I am too, but they did NOTHING this offseason. They seem to think that bringing in Manny Fernandez is going to win the public over, but that actually frustrates me more. I think they should have stayed with Thomas for the few years needed to develop Tuuka Rask, and spend the money where it is really needed in getting a GOOD goal scorer. Plus, they could use a veteran D man, but that isn't a priority.

As for a team that did good, I have to say the Oilers. They got alot of good players. They have Pitkanen, and Suray. Plus they picked up some good forwards, and I think Jussi will play good for them in net.

Obviously Buffalo had a terrible offseason, but they had their work cut out for them with all of their stars contracts ending, and there was no way they were going to be able to afford all of them, maybe not even two of them. They just did what they could, but that sucks for them.

Answer 7

Anyone who was not dumb enough to overpay for the mediocre free agent market this summer is a winner. Briere, Drury, Gomez, Smyth, Penner, Schnieder, Bertuzzi... all these guys were great pickups, but they all got way more money than they deserved. These teams had better hope the salary cap keeps going up, or they are screwed in a couple of years.

Answer 8

Blues: Kariya and Tkachuck to lead a team of youngsters

Thats really all know because Sportcenter hasn't covered hockey at all since the playoffs.

Answer 9

leafs really did well by bringing in Toskala and Blake
Bell was an added bleesing for size and skill.
Calgary really did nothing to improve themselves because the sunk so much money into Iginla and Regehr

Answer 10

Good-Flyers,Rangers,Avs,Blues,and in my opinion i think the caps
Bad-Nashville come on they traded there all team away,Islanders,Sabres,and Devils