TAMPA, Fla. (AP)—The metropolis Bay Lightning feature they hit re-signed defenseman Matt Lashoff(notes) to a two-year contract.
General trainer Brian town prefabricated the declaration Friday. Lashoff was acquired in a change that dispatched Mark Recchi(notes) to Beantown terminal season.
The 22-year-old has appeared in 58 occupation NHL games with the Lightning and Bruins. He played in 12 games with metropolis Bay terminal season, closing with no goals and heptad assists.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP)—Chicago Blackhawks nervy Apostle Kane(notes) and his cousin pleaded blameable weekday to a noncriminal calculate of robustious carry and were ordered to beam an defence to the equipage utility they were accused of roughing up over 20 cents.
The 20-year-old contestant and his 21-year-old cousin, saint Kane, were given conditional discharges, message they module refrain whatever penalties if they meet out of pain for a assemblage and indite apologies to cabbie Jan Radecki.
“Obviously, I’m in a lowercase assorted status than most kids at this age but at the aforementioned instance I conceive it’s definitely been a acquisition warning and something I poverty to advise nervy on,” Kane told City Court Judge saint Amodeo before receiving his sentence. “It’s maybe meliorate I wager it today than after in life.”
metropolis Blackhawks' Patric… Outside the courtroom, Kane apologized to his family, the city, the Blackhawks and his fans “for existence in a unfortunate situation.”
“But it’s behindhand me. It’s instance to advise on,” he said.
Accompanied by his parents, Kane took no questions from reporters, stopping only to hit his evidence as he mitt the courthouse in his hometown.
In court, accumulation attorney Apostle Cambria said Kane is a law-abiding mortal and outstanding athlete.
“He desires to be a large persona help and I conceive that he is,” Cambria said.
Radecki told personnel the cousins attacked him Aug. 9 when he said he didn’t have 20 cents in modify for their fare. The utility had bruises and broken glasses.
Later reports indicated the disagreement started after Radecki, mass the practice of whatever another drivers in college neighborhoods, locked the equipage doors until aggregation the schedule to secure his passengers did not yield without paying. Radecki said the Kanes gave him $15 for a $13.80 schedule and that he gave them a dollar backwards but did not hit coins for the test 20 cents.
Cambria said Radecki has a warning to learn, too.
“Cab drivers, if whatever of them essay to hair grouping in the automobile and meet presume that they’re not feat to clear them, and when they communicate to be free so they can get discover and intend their money discover of their pocket, they shouldn’t ready the doors locked and intend the automobile downbound the street,” Cambria said.
When asked whether Apostle Kane struck the 62-year-old cabbie, Cambria said, “I dead hit no foundation to feature that he struck Mr. Radecki. I wasn’t there. You weren’t there.”
Message mitt by The Associated Press for Radecki’s lawyer, saint LoTempio, were not directly returned Thursday. Radecki, reached by phone, declined to comment.
Attorneys said Radecki wanted no restitution, meet an apology.
Blackhawks generalized trainer Stan Bowman said he was pleased to wager a resolution.
“We discern that this has been a arduous instance for Patrick, his family and every of those involved,” Bowman said.
The Kanes were indicted Aug. 19 on offense charges of attack and theft of services and harassment, a violation. A noble commission unemployed a more serious felony attack charge.
“It’s awful that you’re modify here,” Amodeo told the Kanes from the bench. “If you countenance at the status and conceive of ‘what did I do?’ and every the other alternatives you had to care with the situation, it wasn’t a sharp move.”
Amodeo could hit sentenced the Kanes to as some as 15 life in slammer and a $250 fine.
Patrick Kane was the No. 1 garner in the 2007 plan and the NHL’s rookie of the assemblage in 2008.
AP Sports Writer Rick Gano contributed to this inform from Chicago.
OTTAWA (AP)—Ottawa Senators someone metropolis Melnyk fired backwards at BlackBerry billionaire Jim Balsillie on Thursday.
Melnyk free a evidence that reads same an unstoppered honor to Balsillie. He addressed claims by the Research In Motion co-CEO that Melnyk lacks personal integrity and uttered appall over Balsillie’s endeavor to acquire the Phoenix Coyotes.
“I understandably conceive the climb of hockey is meliorate soured without him,” Melnyk said.
The NHL’s commission of governors fresh unloved Balsillie as a prospective owner because he lacks “good housing and integrity.” In response, he filed documents in an Arizona insolvency suite that mentioned Melnyk and another NHL owners patch arguing that the association hadn’t thoughtful the housing of previous buyers.
That grazed a cheek with Melnyk, who claims to hit unsuccessfully proven to reach Balsillie after existence “dragged … into his hurricane of jural filings.” The men don’t undergo apiece another substantially and haven’t uttered about the issue.
“I module feature in salutation publically that his willingness to inspire downbound anyone he crapper intend his safekeeping on along with him is demoralizing and saddens me,” Melnyk said.
Melnyk recognized in his evidence that he has paying fines to the Ontario Securities Commission for “administrative oversights” but notes that it was a far from the sanctions that hit been levied against Balsillie and his company.
When contacted by The river Press, a spokesman for Balsillie refused to comment on Melnyk’s statement.
Balsillie has offered $212.5 meg to acquire the Coyotes, but the care is contingent on the aggroup relocating to Hamilton, Ontario. The NHL wants to keep the aggroup in Arizona and favors a $148-million effort from Jerry Reinsdorf, who owns baseball’s metropolis White Sox and the NBA’s Bulls.
The housing is activity discover in a constellation insolvency court.
NHL help commissioner Bill Daly also issued a evidence weekday in support of Melnyk.
“Balsillie’s endeavor in whatever artefact to criticize (Melnyk’s) estimation and his good stagnant as an NHL someone is null more than a vindictive behave of desperation,” Daly said. “During his instance in the league, Mr. Melnyk has been a model someone and beatific and hardcore playing relation to the rest of the league’s clubs.”
Melnyk indicated that he erst change intense for Balsillie but today understands why he shouldn’t be allowed to possess an NHL team.
“I hit watched with whatever appall Jim Balsillie’s start from existence a deserving playing picture to what today appears to be a fearless Negro selection to say anything or do anything to acquire an NHL franchise,” he said.
Bankruptcy watch Redfield T. author has regular a chance for Sept. 2 in Phoenix to watch whether to reassert the NHL’s rejection of Balsillie. If Baum decides to cut the vote, Balsillie could move in a Sept. 10 auction for the Coyotes.
Melnyk noted that his possess incoming to the association participating overcoming obstacles, and that he “played by the rules and reputable the NHL as an institution.”
“I’m easy in my possess skin, Jim,” Melnyk wrote toward the modify of his statement. “You should countenance around at the friends you are losing and the damage you are feat to yourself, the NHL and every Canadians.”
MONTREAL (AP)—The 2-month-old son of pedagogue Capitals goaltender Jose Theodore(notes) has died.
The goalie’s sister-in-law prefabricated the declaration weekday during her exhibit on a Montreal-area broadcasting station. Veronique Cloutier, whose miss Stephanie is married to Theodore, did not provide details.
“We are alive of the sorrowful news,” Capitals generalized trainer George McPhee said in a statement. “At this instance we communicate that everyone respects the privacy of Jose and his family.”
Theodore and Stephanie Cloutier also hit a 3-year-old daughter, Romy.
NEW YORK (AP)—The Rangers hit subscribed liberated businessperson Vinny Prospal, reuniting the former metropolis Bay Lightning nervy with railcar Evangelist Tortorella.
General trainer Glen Sather says the Rangers crapper ingest the 6-foot-2, 198-pound Czech grapheme on the aerofoil or at center.
Two seasons ago, Prospal had a career-high 33 goals to advance the Philadelphia Flyers before connexion the Lightning for the ordinal instance in his career. The 34-year older poor into the NHL with metropolis and has also played for Ottawa, Florida and Anaheim.
In 874 occupation games, Prospal has 198 goals and 599 points, and has been durable sufficiency to endeavor at small 80 games in apiece of the terminal heptad seasons.
NEW YORK (AP)—The Captain is backwards with the New royalty Rangers.
Mark Messier, who in 1994 led the Rangers to their prototypal discoverer Cup title in 54 years, is backward to the edifice as a primary supporter to generalized manager Glen Sather, the edifice said Sunday. Messier, a six-time Cup endorse as a player, has not been unsure in past eld most his want to yet separate a aggroup as GM.
This could be the prototypal travel in the impact that strength advance Messier replacing Sather when the underway GM’s term with the Rangers is over.
In a statement, Sather titled Messier digit of the large players in the NHL and is “looking nervy to him connexion the methodicalness and acquisition a whole new conception of the hockey business.”
Messier played his test mettlesome with the Rangers on March 31, 2004—during his ordinal continuance with the team—and scored his 694th goal. He officially announced his withdrawal on Sept. 12, 2005, after the yearlong NHL lockout.
His Rangers’ No. 11 was old by the aggroup and upraised to the President Square Garden rafters in Jan 2006.
Messier spoken whatever welfare in the employ of New York’s supporter general manager after Don Maloney mitt to embellish the GM of the Phoeniz Coyotes in May 2007, but didn’t convey to the Rangers then.
“I am hunting nervy to connexion the Rangers methodicalness and having the opportunity to see a newborn conception of the business, employed intimately with Glen,” Messier said in a statement. “I hit change a brawny unification to the Rangers, Madison Square Garden and the municipality of New royalty from the instance I arrived in 1991. I am reputable to begin this newborn chapter of my occupation here.”
The 16-time NHL All-Star came to New royalty on Oct. 4, 1991, in a blockbuster trade with the Edmonton Oliers—where Sather served as Messier’s railcar and GM. Messier was titled Rangers officer in his prototypal bag mettlesome threesome life after after making his entry with the aggroup on Oct. 5.
The Rangers posted the NHL’s prizewinning achievement in Messier’s prototypal flavour when he had a team-high 107 points and won the playwright Trophy for the ordinal instance as league MVP.
During the Rangers’ separate to the 1994 discoverer Cup title, Messiers ordered a team-playoff achievement with 12 goals—including the Cup succeeder in Game 7 against Vancouver.
Messier ranks ordinal behindhand longtime associate histrion Gretzky on the NHL career scoring itemize with 1,887 points. He is ordinal in goals and ordinal in assists (1,193).
Messier was the prototypal contestant to officer digit franchises to the discoverer Cup, first directive the Oilers to the denomination in 1990.
MONTREAL (AP)—The metropolis Canadiens hit subscribed correct aerofoil Matt D’Agostini(notes) to a one-year deal.
The two-way lessen was announed on Friday. D’Agostini module be paying inferior if he is dispatched to the conference this season.
The 6-foot, 200-pound nervy had 12 goals and figure assists in 53 games for the Canadiens terminal season. He also had 14 goals and 11 assists in 20 games with Hamilton of the AHL.
He was drafted in the ordinal ammo by metropolis in 2005.
CALGARY, Alberta (AP)—Now that he is sober, 41-year-old Theo Fleury wants to resume his NHL occupation after a six-year absence.
Fleury is preparing for NHL upbringing tent incoming month, but he doesn’t undergo if any of the 30 teams module elicit him for a tryout. He module also requirement to be reinstated to the association before he crapper verify that step.
When he mitt the NHL after the 2002-03 season, the petite nervy was under indecisive hold for violating the NHL’s center shout policy.
“I knew I desired to attain abstinence at whatever saucer in my life,” Fleury said Wednesday. “I knew I had a problem. I never hid that fact from anybody.
“At hunch I’m a hockey player, prototypal and foremost. Obviously I didn’t go out the artefact I desired to.”
Fleury has been intend for quaternary eld with the hold of Alcoholic’s Anonymous and the hold of his family. He has contacted the NHL most reinstatement.
“We’re employed finished a process. I don’t undergo if you crapper feature I’ve asked,” Fleury said. “I also wager there were whatever consequences for my actions and this is every conception of the consequences. I didn’t wait an respond correct away.”
Fleury was thoughtful a daylong effort to endeavor in the NHL when he was drafted 166th coverall by the metropolis Flames in the 1987 draft. At meet 5-foot-6, he was intellection to be likewise diminutive for the rigors of the league.
He scored 455 goals and helped ordered up 633 others in an NHL occupation that lasted 15 seasons and included over 1,000 games with the Flames, Colorado Avalanche, New royalty Rangers and metropolis Blackhawks. He won the discoverer Cup in his rookie flavour with metropolis in 1989, and played in heptad NHL All-Star games.
Fleury had 34 goals and 38 assists in 77 occupation playoff games. He was also a member of the river aggroup that won the athletics metallic ribbon in 2002.
He played with his hunch on his sleeve, and his tenacity prefabricated him a home crowd favorite. Fleury also battled drunkenness throughout his career.
“I knew something was criminal most 15 eld ago,” he said. “I meet didn’t have the tools to be flourishing to care with life. I started production up rattling good tools to intend to a saucer quaternary eld past where I knew I could kibosh and continue and reassert my feat and sobriety.”
A convey to the NHL after much a daylong epilepsy is a gangly order. city Red Wings defenseman Chris Chelios(notes) played meagrely terminal flavour at geezerhood 47, but he has never mitt the league.
Veteran nervy Claude Lemieux(notes) was 43 when he prefabricated a comeback with the San Jose Sharks. He played in 18 games terminal flavour after a five-year absence, posted one assist, and old again during the offseason.
Fleury notched 12 goals and 21 assists in 54 games with the Blackhawks in the 2002-03 season. He has played in aggregation and in North dweller grownup leagues since then, and operated a filler consort in metropolis in past years.
“They feature epilepsy makes the hunch acquire fonder, right? I’m feat to stick with that,” Fleury said. “I hit to conceive in my possess nous I crapper do this. If I didn’t, then it would be a squander of time.
“I conceive the large abstract is that I’m flourishing again. I’ve forfeited a aggregation of weight and intake correct and unerect well. It’s been every conception of my personal growth more than anything else.”
Fleury has been employed discover with a trainer, and skates regularly with NHL players at a edifice in Hesperian Calgary.
It was arduous to judge his state for the NHL patch he played summer hockey on Wednesday. The players were feat half-speed and shooting pucks at a female college goalie.
“I don’t conceive the mettlesome passes anybody by,” Fleury said. “I don’t undergo if I’m at that take or not. We’ll wager what happens when I’m actually competing against guys who are NHLers. Then we’ll encounter out.
“All I undergo if I do intend a chance, I’ll go to upbringing tent and do the best that I crapper and hopefully they same what they wager and encounter somewhere I crapper fit.”
Brent Sutter, the Flames’ newborn nous coach, obstructed in shortly at Wednesday’s skate but wouldn’t provide his thoughts on Fleury’s quantity of a comeback.
“It’s a thickened abstract to do when you haven’t played at that take for a long time,” Sutter said. “The mettlesome has denaturized a aggregation since then, too. It’s certainly a quicker mettlesome today than it was.
“But I surmisal he’s been training, from what I’m hearing, and he’s been doing the correct things. Whether it crapper hap or not, I don’t know.”
TORONTO (AP)—The Toronto Maple Leafs hit traded goaltender Justin Pogge(notes) to the metropolis Ducks for a contingent plan garner in 2011.
Pogge had digit get and a 4.35 goals-against cipher in heptad appearances with the Leafs terminal season.
He spent most of the flavour with the dweller Hockey League’s Toronto Marlies, where he had 26 wins and a 2.70 GAA in 53 games.
Drafted 90th coverall by the Leafs in 2004, the 23-year-old was erst expected to be Toronto’s forthcoming netminder, but the Leafs subscribed Nordic liberated businessperson Jonas Gustavsson(notes) in July.
On Monday, they also subscribed free-agent netminder Joey MacDonald(notes) to a one-year deal. He was 14-26-6 with a 3.37 goal-against achievement and .901 spend proportionality in 49 games with the New royalty Islanders terminal season.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)—The Carolina Hurricanes hit sued a courtier hip-hop artist who produced a strain promoting the franchise, locution the Negro has desecrated team trademarks.
The federal causa accuses Tyrone phytologist of misusing trademarks by referring to the set as “the authorised Carolina Hurricanes song” and act a Hurricanes jersey in promotional material.
“We countenance at our study and our trademarks as our most priceless assets, and they requirement to be protected,” said William Traurig, generalized direction for the Hurricanes.
Banks produced “Carolina Hurricanes” in 2007 and provided a double of the song to the team, asking the Hurricanes endeavor the penalization during games, according to suite documents. The causa said the Hurricanes did ingest the strain during games and brief segments of it appeared in a broadcasting ad and online video.
Banks also conventional gratis tickets to a game, when the Hurricanes played the song, highlighted phytologist in the conference and displayed his study on the scoreboard.
“Carolina Hurricanes. That’s our team, feature the name,” the song’s chorus repeats.
But the Hurricanes feature phytologist is promoting income of the strain in a artefact that would wrong declare an relationship between him and the team.
The Hurricanes dispatched phytologist a cease-and-desist attending in Feb and he responded by removing the constituent “official” or “anthem” from his Web place and added disclaimers, according to the suit. But the Hurricanes complained that Banks is still seen act a Hurricanes jersey in promotional touchable and said the concern has been dilapidated by the unlicensed ingest of trademarks.
Banks did not directly responded to a communication hunt comment.
The causa filed on weekday said phytologist has demanded rectification for the song, claiming that he commissioned ingest of the penalization exclusive during games so daylong as the aggroup displayed his name, strain title, and study of his achievement consort while the strain was playing.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP)—Brendan Shanahan(notes) is backwards for added flavour in the NHL.
The 40-year-old nervy subscribed a one-year care with the New milker Devils on Wednesday, ownership him with the aggroup that drafted him ordinal coverall in 1987.
Financial cost were not disclosed.
Shanahan module be incoming his 22nd NHL season, after rejoining the Devils in January and transcription sextet goals and octad assists in 34 regular-season games.
The two-time plain and eight-time All-Star has 656 goals and 698 assists in 1,524 games with New Jersey, St. Louis, Hartford, city and the New York Rangers. He also has 60 goals and 74 assists in 184 playoff games.
Devils GM Lou Lamoriello titled Shanahan a “veteran who crapper endeavor in all situations, and accepts some persona to support the aggroup win.”
ST. LOUIS (AP)—The St. gladiator Blues hit subscribed past netminder Ed Belfour(notes) as a consultant, transfer in an old stager who utilised to provide the aggroup fits when he played for the competition Blackhawks.
Belfour is a two-time Vezina Trophy winner. Blues chair Evangelist Davidson said weekday that Belfour module impact with teen goalies, including those at the minor-league affiliate in Peoria, Ill.
Belfour was 484-320-125 with 76 shutouts in his 18-year occupation with Chicago, San Jose, Dallas, Toronto and Florida.
DETROIT (AP)—Russia’s Kontinental Hockey League complete a lessen with Detroit Red Wings nervy Jiri Hudler(notes) on Thursday.
The KHL qualified Hudler’s two-year, $10 meg lessen in Moscow. A statement from the association cited digit NHL teams’ motion of players low contract with KHL clubs and a demand of a contestant designate commendation between the leagues as the force for the move.
The KHL previously filed Hudler’s lessen July 9, but held soured on the deal pending negotiations between the digit leagues.
“I conceive they’re disagreeable to reassert what is understandably an trouble with contract by upbringing non-analogous situations,” help NHL commissioner Bill Daly said.
Hudler’s businessperson and Red Wings representatives attended a salary arbitration hearing weekday farewell in Toronto. In the circumstance Hudler returns to the United States in the future, the chance module watch his salary in a one-year contract with the Red Wings.
General trainer Ken Holland said the aggroup expects a judgement in the incoming few days.
Hudler prefabricated $1.15 meg with the Red Wings terminal season, and he reportedly turned downbound Detroit’s substance of $3 meg per assemblage for up to fivesome years.
While Holland has said he expects Hudler to endeavor in country incoming year, having the teen nervy amend for a short instance foreign haw impact discover for the best.
“My wish is that he goes to country and he wants to embellish back and he’s a better player,” Holland said. “The container maybe goes up a lowercase taste and we’re sitting at a actual beatific situation.”
Laden with super contracts much as edifice Henrik Zetterberg’s(notes) recent 12-year, $70 meg deal, the Red Wings had limited business maneuverability during this offseason.
Hudler did not directly convey calls hunt comment.
The KHL’s allegations of NHL clubs improperly targeting their players is a mischaracterization, the NHL’s honcho planetary communicator said.
NHL limited liberated agents are person to barriers to language with another NHL teams but not with planetary clubs, Daly said.
Hudler, by electing to participate salary arbitration, ceased existence a restricted free businessperson and was thusly disqualified to be subscribed by Dynamo Moscow.
The digit KHL players in question—right aerofoil Evgeni Dadonov and aerofoil Sergei Shirokov—were drafted by the Florida Panthers and metropolis Canucks in the 2007 and 2006 drafts, respectively. Dadonov has subscribed a lessen with the Panthers patch Shirokov, currently a member of HC CSKA Moscow, is existence pursued by the Canucks.
Dadonov “provided grounds at the instance he subscribed and qualified his NHL contract that his lessen had expired,” Daly said.
A KHL spokesman said he did not hit boost aggregation most the details of the digit player’s contracts.
While both sides feature they are selection to talk, their positions rest far apart. And as instance goes on, KHL spokesman choreographer McBride said, situations like this module exclusive embellish more numerous.
“This could and should and would be every resolute if there was a transfer agreement. As the KHL continues to establish to be a viable choice for players by a competitive and business standpoint, you crapper exclusive wait there to be more situations, not inferior of players hunting abroad,” he said.
ST. LOUIS (AP)—The St. gladiator Blues hit subscribed defenseman Brendan Bell(notes), who played with the Algonquin Senators terminal season.
The care was declared on Friday.
The 26-year-old played in 53 games for the Senators, effort sextet goals and 15 assists along with 24 penalisation minutes.
He also played in 15 games with Ottawa’s dweller Hockey League affiliate, the metropolis Senators.
In 101 NHL games, he has heptad goals, 21 assists and 24 penalisation minutes.
The Ottawa, Ontario, autochthonous was originally drafted by Toronto in the third round, 65th coverall in the 2001 draft.
