From Wild Blogger Michael Russo "Wild signs tough defenseman Shane Hnidy" The Sheriff is coming to the Wild. Also it would appear that he isn't going to cost the Wild very much. This is a pick up that I like and will help the Minnesota Wild, Hnidy is tough defenseman and he will stick up for team mates as Matt Niskanen found out.
The Wild has signed gritty defenseman Shane Hnidy to a one-year, $750,000 contract. He spent the last two years in Boston. In 477 NHL games, he has 14 goals, 57 points, is a plus-22 and 565 penalty minutes. [Russo's Rants]
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SAINT PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Minnesota Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman Shane Hnidy (NIGH-dee) to a one-year contract.
Hnidy, 33 (11/8/75), tied his career-...
Today we begin a new segment here entitled “Guess that Wild.” Your job: name the current or former member of the Minnesota Wild based up three clues. For this initial contest, I’ll make it a bit easy.1. Lousy defenseman who turns the puck over at the worst possible times.2. In the ultimate of all ironies, has his name on the Stanley Cup as a member of the Avalanche.3....
In less than 2 months on the job, Wild GM Chuck Fletcher did something Dougie Risebrough couldn’t get himself to do in 10 years: sign a top free agent. After being spruned by Marian Gaborik, the Wild went to the next best available forward and signed Martin Havlat to a 6 year contract. How refreshing is this? Risebrough would’ve lost out on Gaborik and just called it a day, saying...
Over at Puck Prospectus, I joined the rest of the crew and decided which signing has been the best since free agency began only two days ago.
Here is an excerpt:
Greg Zanon–Minnesota Wild (3 Years, $5.8 Million); With the market bordering on insanity, the Wild did well to pick up a solid defenseman whose contributions to [...]
On the day Marian Gaborik left Minnesota for good, the Wild signed free-agent right wing Martin Havlat to fill the large hole in their lineup.
Havlat, Chicago's leading scorer last season with 77 points, signed a six-year contract late Wednesday night. Gaborik, the first player drafted by Minnesota when the franchise began nine seasons ago and the Wild's career scoring...
SAINT PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- The National Hockey League’s (NHL) Minnesota Wild announced today that the organization will hold a development camp for team prospects July 7-12. The team will hold a scrimmage open to the public on Sunday, ...
NHL notebook
Rangers — New York made its usual splash in the free-agent market Wednesday
night by signing Marian Gaborik, who scored a career-high 42 goals in the
2007-08 season with the Minnesota Wild. Injuries limited him to 17 games last
sea...
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