Edmonton Oilers left wing Ryan Smyth was drafted by Glen Sather and worked under him for five years before Sather left to join the New York Rangers.
Now the Rangers are at the top of the chart in their conference and the Oilers are near the bottom in theirs and Smyth, who has a no-trade clause in his contract, might want to rejoin Sather. A “well-placed” source tells the New York Post reports that Smyth “would give serious consideration to waiving his no-move clause in order to pursue a Cup on Broadway.”
The paper also hears that the Rangers want to add “both scoring punch and a defenseman in advance of the Feb. 27 trade deadline.”
The soon-to-be 36-year-old Smyth, who is in the final year of his contract, has 16 goals and 18 assists to his name this season.
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Zach Parise has spent his entire seven-year NHL career playing for the New Jersey Devils, but the captain may find himself as an unrestricted free agent for the first time this summer.
The Newark Star-Ledger reports that Parise hasn’t had any extension talks with the team even though Parise doesn’t think having them would distract him in the slightest from the season at hand. The Devils are currently in fourth place in the Atlantic Division, 10 points behind the first-place New York Rangers, after beating their rivals in a shootout Tuesday night.
“I try not to think about it,” Parise said, according to the paper. “It can’t interfere with what’s ahead.”
The 27-year-old left wing has 16 goals and 25 assists so far this season. Last year, he only appeared in 13 games because of torn meniscus in his right knee, scoring three goals and notching three assists.
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The NHL trade deadline is on Feb. 27, but the Toronto Maple Leafs’ locker room is already thick with rumors of who is going where for what, according to the Toronto Sun.
On Monday, Mikhail Grabovski and Clarke MacArthur both finished discussing trade rumors with reporters at different ends of the locker room nearly simultaneously, the Sun notes.
East German native Grabovski, an assistant captain, has been with the Leafs since 2008 but there have been no serious discussions of an extension with GM Brian Burke even though he becomes an unrestricted free agent this summer, the Sun reports.
“It’s my home right now, you know?” Grabovski said, according to the Sun. “If they want me here, I appreciate it. My job is to work hard and give my best on the ice. I think more about hockey than about my future. I know if I play well, I can stay with the same team.”
Grabovski has 16 goals and 16 assists so far this season.
Some of the players the Maple Leafs “have been linked to,” according to the Sun, are Ryan Getzlaf and Bobby Ryan of the Anaheim Ducks, Ales Hemsky of the Edmonton Oilers, Tuomo Ruutu of the Carolina Hurricanes, and Ryan Clowe of the San Jose Sharks.
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The Dallas Stars are tied for third place in the NHL’s Pacific Division with the Phoenix Coyotes and the word is that the team is open to trading captain Brenden Morrow if it can help the Stars get better
over the long-term, according to TSN.
Morrow, who missed the final game before the All-Star break with an upper-body injury, had 33 goals last year and is on pace for 16 this year, TSN reports. He has two more years left on his contract, which also contains a no-trade clause so he’d have to actually want to get out of Texas.
While one source in Dallas told TSN that the Stars are “probably not” dealing the 33-year-old Morrow, who was selected in the first round of the 1997 draft, an executive with another team is hearing he “might” be available and certainly intends to find out.
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Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Suter has been named to his first All-Star team. Unfortunately, he may not be able to play on it due to an upper-body injury he suffered Jan. 14 against the Philadelphia Flyers.
The game will take place Jan. 29 in Ottawa and the 26-year-old is doubtful he’ll be competing, according to the Tennessean. “If I can’t play here, I don’t see how I could go do that,” he said, according to the paper. “It doesn’t look good to your teammates. It’s good to know you made the All-Star team, but you also want to go and experience it.”
Suter is averaging 26:31 minutes of ice time per game and has scored five goals and notched 20 assists in the 45 games he’s played this season.
He played one period on Monday night against the New York Islanders before being pulled and then missed games on Tuesday and Thursday. The paper notes that he is going to try and return on Saturday against the Chicago Blackhawks.
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The Chicago Blackhawks have had a rough time recently. Having lost five of its last six games, the team has fallen to third place in the Central Division and it may have to try and climb back out of its hole without the help of Patrick Sharp, who scored one of the team’s goals in its 3-2 loss to the Detroit Red Wings Sunday.
The 30-year-old Sharp, who has scored 20 goals and notched 20 assists this season, went down with an upper-body injury in the first period and didn’t return to the game, the Chicago Tribune reports.
“We’re going to have some tests with him (and we’ll) know more (Monday),” Hawks coach Joel Quenneville said, the Tribune reports.
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The Columbus Blue Jackets suffered a 7-4 loss to the Anaheim Ducks Sunday and lost the services of center Jeff Carter along the way as well.
BlueJacketsXtra.com reports that Carter separated his shoulder in the first shift of the third period “when he was blindsided by Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin.”
The 27-year-old alternate captain who joined Columbus this offseason through a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers has been a bit of a disappointment in Ohio. He has scored 10 goals and put up seven assists this season. He had 36 goals and 30 assists for the Flyers last season.
“We’ll see where he’s at and we’ll get more detail tomorrow,” Blue Jackets coach Scott Arniel said, according to the site. The team is taking a short flight Monday to take on the Chicago Blackhawks Tuesday.
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Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Suter has been with the team since his rookie season in 2005, but he could be lost this summer as an unrestricted free agent.
The team has been trying to sign him to an extension and it remains to be seen if Suter will put a signature on a new deal before the Feb. 27 trading deadline. Predators GM David Poile, for one, is ready to trade Suter at that point if a deal doesn’t look inevitable, according to the Tennessean.
“Our first and foremost goal is to sign Ryan,” Poile told the paper. “We’ve been trying to do that all season long. I’ve not accomplished that to this point, but we’re hoping to continue discussions and get that done at some point. We’ll be prepared, if we feel that we weren’t going to be able to sign Ryan, and if we thought we were in a position that we had to or should trade him. I’m certainly hoping that doesn’t happen, I don’t want that to happen, but I want to be prepared for that.”
The soon-to-be 27-year-old Suter, whose father, Bob, was part of the gold-medal-winning “Miracle on Ice” 1980 US Olympic hockey team, has five goals and 19 assists this season.
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Florida Panthers rookie goaltender Jacob Markstrom is getting knee surgery and will be out indefinitely after hurting himself at Saturday’s practice.
“You can’t look back and be sad,” Markstrom said, according to the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. “You just have to look forward and try to get back as quick as possible.”
For Panthers fans, though, looking ahead means there will be another man between the pipes and it could be Jose Theodore. He skated on the ice before Tuesday’s practice for the first time since going down with a knee injury and he plans to skate again Wednesday and Thursday, the paper reports. Though Theodore is still recovering, coach Kevin Dineen did not rule out having him back for Friday’s game.
Goalie coach Robb Tallas isn’t planning on rushing Theodore back, though: “You can’t do that,” he said, according to the paper. “It’s a small injury and you don’t want to make it serious. You do the right steps to make sure [Theodore] is 100 percent. [Scott] Clemmensen is a great goalie, and everybody has 100 percent confidence in him to carry this team right now.”
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The NHL is expected to announce where the its annual post-New Year’s outdoor game, the Winter Classic, will be played next season sometime before the Jan. 29th All-Star Game, but sources to Yahoo! Sports’ Jeff Arnold are telling him that it’s looking pretty good that it will be held at the University of Michigan’s Michigan Stadium, college football’s largest stadium.
The league is “in advanced discussions with the University of Michigan” about having the event there, according to Arnold. One source informed him that Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon wasn’t into the idea at first but “something happened to make it go from looking like it could happen to [a point where] it probably will.” Some things holding up the deal, according to a source of Arnold’s are just how much money Michigan would make from the event and “the issue of obtaining a waiver to sell beer at the event.”
According to Arnold, the Detroit Red Wings and Toronto Maple Leafs are the two teams that are being talked about to be involved with the game.
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