Friday, July 11, 2008

Hell day - Decent signing

"do you still have the iphone?" "No" "Why not?" "Because you decided to come at 5pm... instead of 9am like I told you to... they're sold out".... starts throwing a fit....

Thats the sum of my day.... from 2pm untill 9pm.... person after person... for seven straight hours. Not even enough time to take a break to eat, muchless check the trusty HTC touch for updates, and definatly not enough time to update the blog.... I guess thems the life of a working, student/hockey writer.

Kudos to JC over at SensChirp for breaking the Williams deal. And again, Kevin Lee follows up on his coatails leaching information lol. God I love hockeybuzz.

So here's the lowdown... Williams deal will be announced tomorrow afternoon, either a 12 noon or 3pm. Press Release to be issued tomorrow morning at 8am.
The speculated deal is as follows. 3 years, 5.75 million. (or 1.9 per anum)

This leaves the senators with the following cap space available: 7.774Million.
Assuming a buffer of one million, the Sens have 6.5 in avail space.

Mezzy will be resigned, but earlier texts, (like from 4pm-7pm) tell me that Murray was working the phones quite vividly to get a deal done to trade Vermette PER HIS REQUEST. Hence the Williams signing.... Remember that 10 teams had previously enquired about the forward.... one being Chicago.
I'll dig more into it.

4 comments:

Dale Sanger said...

I hope you are wrong about Vermette. I would love to have him in the line up and get rid of Neil instead

mattlef said...

I agree with you, he has so much to offer...
I've been told his concern was voiced right after the playoffs. He felt that he had more to give.... but realized that he might not have a place in ottawa in which he could excell. I beleive that this could stem from the fact that he is a natural Center, and is a killer faceoff man. He would slot in as the teams third line center..... where he was very unhappy with icetime, including the pk mins.....
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Dale Sanger said...

I think Fisher should be moved to the Wing on the 2nd Line with Vermy at Center and Willaims on the other wing (killer secondary scoring)

Mullan32 said...

Vermette is and always will be one of my favorite senators if Murray feels hes getting a fair or more then fair trade offer I hope he pulls the trigger especially if we could include Neil, another decently respectable player, in the deal to up the value and get a roster player signed to a decent contract, and/or good prospect(s) and/or maybe picks. A combination of two of those would be good for our team