Posts About "Martin Hanzal"
Panthers’ Bjugstad: Trade Bait?
June 14th, 2018 With the 2017-18 National Hockey League season finally in the books, the focus now shifts to an offseason that may rival the Stanley Cup Final in terms of sheer excitement. The Florida Panthers will be selecting 15th in the First Round at the 2018 NHL Entry Draft, and have a reasonably good track record in recent years when it comes...
Stars Hanzal out for Season
March 9th, 2018 The Dallas Stars have announced that forward Martin Hanzal will be undergoing season-ending back surgery in the coming days. The recovery time for the procedure is expected to be six to seven months which would put the veteran in line for a return in early-September to early-October if all goes...
Stars to Eclipse Many Milestones in 2017-18
October 1st, 2017 The Stars will be celebrating 25 years in Dallas this season. It was 1993 when the Minnesota North Stars realigned further south to become the Dallas Stars. Since that time Dallas has won a Stanley Cup (1999) and was runner-up the following year. It has also been the home of the most prolific United States born scorer in NHL history,...
Making Sense of Martin Hanzal
August 4th, 2017 Why did the Dallas Stars sign Martin Hanzal? Virtually all of the Stars' other offseason moves are easily understood: The team needed to make a coaching change, so Ken Hitchcock was hired. To improve their last line of defense, they traded for Ben Bishop and signed him to a six-year deal before the giant goalie could test free agency....
Alex Radulov Signs With the Dallas Stars
July 3rd, 2017 The Dallas Stars started this summer with conviction when they traded for goalie Ben Bishop and defenseman Marc Methot. Then they bolstered their forward corps when they signed former Coyotes and Wild center Martin Hanzal. Monday came and the Stars laid down the gauntlet, showing they are in "win now mode" by giving out the...
Stars Sign Martin Hanzal
July 1st, 2017 The Dallas Stars have signed Czech forward Martin Hanzal to a 3-year, $14.25 million contract. The 30-year-old forward last played in the NHL with the Minnesota Wild. https://twitter.com/TSNBobMcKenzie/status/881190429714243586 Hanzal Moving On with the Stars The Czech forward is a veteran of more than 600 games, therefore the...
2017 NHL Free Agency: Buyer Beware
June 5th, 2017 The NHL free agency period has virtually become an annual event for teams to overpay on undeserving players. In the salary cap era, general managers have figured out the importance of re-signing their pending free agents before their contracts expire. As a result, the free agent class seems to be less impressive with each year that...
5 Free Agents Bruins Should Avoid
May 16th, 2017 The Boston Bruins are coming off a relatively successful season. There's reason for optimism. They qualified for the playoffs, Brad Marchand made the leap to stardom, and David Pastrnak showed that he could be on a similar path. But right now, the Bruins front office is watching the Ottawa Senators' improbable success and salivating....
Wild Need to Rediscover Their Game
March 21st, 2017 The Minnesota Wild have to be plenty excited to be done with the month of March. A month that has seen the top team in the Central Division and Western Conference drop five straight games, with a 2-8 record for the entire month. For a team that has looked so dominant for a majority of the season, the Wild seem to have lost a bit of...
Preview: Rested Jets Host the Conference Leading Wild
February 28th, 2017 The Winnipeg Jets are getting thrown to the wolves after their five-day break as they welcome the conference-leading Minnesota Wild to town. http://gty.im/646039062 The Jets are coming off their mandatory five-day break after going 2-0-2 on their four-game road trip before the vacation. The team has points in five straight games...
Wild Go All-In with Hanzal
February 27th, 2017 It was a big price to pay but Minnesota Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher made it clear that he means business. The long-time GM put his cards on the table for all to see as he acquired arguably the top forward rental on the trade market three days before the NHL's deadline. The already deep Wild forward group instantly had its...
Coyotes Curiously Stockpile Picks
February 27th, 2017 At this point, there is no question the Arizona Coyotes are sellers. In the course of seven days, Chayka engineered two major deals but the return for two veteran players leaves pundits scratching their heads. In deals that sent defenseman Michael Stone to the Calgary Flames on Feb. 20 for a third round pick and conditional pick in...
Do the Oilers Deserve a Trade?
February 27th, 2017 With the NHL's trade deadline just days away, the wheeling and dealing has already begun. One of the more intriguing deals saw prospect-rich Minnesota hand over a first round pick for rental forward Martin Hanzal. Wild GM Chuck Fletcher said of the trade: "They deserve management to step up. Our players deserve that. Our fans deserve...
