Posted By Gayle Simone, Sun Staff
It's official - Isbister signed a one-year $600,000 contract with the Hurricanes.
Although, it seems pretty bad that a 9-year veteran signed for that little of money - maybe Leetch and Carter shouldn't be offended Isbister found a home before they did.
In case you missed it Bs GM Peter Chiarelli was on WEEI with Dale and Holley this morning and because I was on assignment I missed most of it - what I did catch was Chiarelli saying the team was not actively looking to add any more players at this time - guess that means Leetch is definitely not coming back.
Excerpt on what Chiarelli had to say when Dale made the comment he could foresee 3 or 4 youngsters making the team:
"That's a possibility, what you have to keep in mind the level of play in trading camp is a shade less than the level of play at the start of the season and the level of play in the playoffs is a lot higher than the level of play during the season not just the start of the season, so you have to take that into account. These guys bring energy right away and adrenaline and they tend to taper off a bit too at some point during the start so what we see at the beginning of training camp and what we send at the end of training camp from these guys will tell a lot about the trend"
Chiarelli also said during the interview he expects an immediate turn around with this club due to the core of players before Chara, Savard and others were even added.
Do you agree with Chiarelli? I still have doubts about the tandem in net.
What core? This guy is already sounding like Mike O'Connell....I think a public lynching is in order!
I think the core he was talking about has to do with Sturm-Bergy-Boyes and Murray - those would be the core goal scorers etc...just my guess - and no offense but I do not think he is any where MOC - if he was MOC the Bs would have never been able to sign Chara
As far as I'm concerned, it's the same ownership that allowed Joe Thorton to be traded. I just can't get over it. Coupled with the thought that they managed they team with a self imposed salary cap for so many years, and still had no idea what was going on last year. Awful, just awful.
I bet most GM's would say "we are not actively" looking just so it throws off most people. The B's will probably be allowed some relief salary cap wise for Zhamnov. (worst Boston free agent signing until Choko Crisp) so I would expect them to squeekin a Vet before the deadline.
Chiarelli sounded very ordinary. Not someone I would expect to have a dynamic position.
The Bs will still have to pay Zhamnov's salary but it will not count against the cap if he does not play. They can not receive that cap room until 10 games into the season and with the recent signing of Bergy it did not leave them much under the cap. So, I honestly beleive him when he said the team was not being active at the moment - they can't they don't have the money to spare.