Heatley to the Sharks

In NHL hockey news, Dany Heatley is on his way to the San Jose Sharks. The deal has been speculated for some time. In exchange for Dany Heatley, the San Jose Sharks are shipping two younger players to the Ottawa Senators in return, Milan Michalek and Jonathan Cheechoo. San Jose also yields a second-round pick and gets a fifth-rounder in return. MVN Front Page From The Cold Shoulder...

by Susan SlusserFiled under: Kings, Senators, Sharks, NHL RumorsThe San Jose Sharks are often linked to Dany Heatley, like many other teams this offseason, but the latest whispers out of San Jose are that this time, something might happen. No one is denying anything, and while that doesn't guaranteed a deal is struck, it makes it highly likely that talks are ongoing.Sharks,...

As a sportswriter, your heart goes out to ESPN's John Buccigross this morning. He stuck his neck out on a major story yesterday, reporting that the Ottawa Senators had finally traded Dany Heatley(notes) to the San Jose Sharks in a deal that allegedly sent Patrick Marleau(notes) to the Los Angeles Kings and Alexander Frolov(notes) and Jarret Stoll(notes) to the Senators. It was...

Who are the winners in the Dany Heatley trade? Allan Muir sizes up the big Senators-Sharks deal.

by Susan SlusserFiled under: Senators, SharksDany Heatley skated on a line with San Jose's Patrick Marleau and Joe Thornton last month at Team Canada's Olympic orientation camp, and because Heatley was thought to be a Sharks' target most of the summer, the three kidded around a bit about the possibility of keeping that line together. "We were kind of joking around with it," Heatley...

The San Jose Sharks won the Dany Heatley lottery as the team acquired the left wing from the Ottawa Senators on Saturday.

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- San Jose Sharks Executive Vice President and General Manager Doug Wilson announced Saturday that the team has acquired left wing Dany Heatley and a fifth round selection in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft from the Ottawa Senators in ...

I follow Elliotte Friedman on Twitter, along with many other fine CBC folks, and I enjoy the content they provide. Friedman recently posted a blog entry on the Dany Heatley trade, twitted about it and so I journeyed over to check it out.But as soon as I got there, I shook my head. Not at the content, but at what I consider a failure of the design of the CBC Sports Blog.A blog - and...

Dany Heatley finally got a deal he was willing to accept.  It was announced this morning, shortly after he showed up at Senators' Training Camp, that the former two-time 50 goal scorer has been traded, along with a 2010 fifth round pick to the San Jose Sharks for Jonathan Cheechoo, Milan Michalek and a 2010 second round pick.  At the end of the 2008–09 season...

The past three months have been the most exciting part of the NHL: the offseason. Many players have found a new home, some have stayed put in their respective cities, and trade rumors are always brewing. The most talked-about player in the trade rumors has been Dany Heatley. Heatley still has 5 years left on his contract with the Ottawa Senators and a $7.5 million cap hit. Heatley...

So the Sharks did get Dany Heatley after all. It was the Patrick Marleau part of the rumor that was wrong. Heatley, one of a diminishing number of 50-goal scorers in a league that is continually losing its scoring punch, was shipped westward Saturday for fan...

from Chris Stevenson of the Ottawa Sun, Cheechoo has to get back to the 30-goal range and Michalek has to increase his offensive output to justify his cap hit for this deal to come close to being a winner for the Senators. The winner of this deal right now is the Sharks: They got a 50-goal scorer of questionable character, who, if he’s happy and motivated, is one of the...