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Found July 02, 2012 on The Sports Jags: Yardbarker Blogger Network
PLAYERS: Zach Parise,  Ryan Suter,  Ray Shero,  Jeff Zatkoff,  Brad Thiessen,  Eric Godard,  Dan Bylsma,  Warren Peters,  Ryan Craig
TEAMS: New Jersey Devils,  Nashville Predators,  Pittsburgh Penguins,  Minnesota Wild
Stanley-cup-finals
Zach Parise. Ryan Suter. Either one would give the Penguins a legit shot a winning another Stanley Cup. And neither one decided to do anything but chill on the couch on the first day of free agency. But that didn’t stop Ray Shero from making a surprising number of moves…for the Baby Pens. Maybe Shero thought if the Pens missed out on the two biggest names available and failed to get out of the first round again, Wilkes-Barre could still win the Calder Cup to totally redeem himself. After Day 1 of free agency, the Pens may have the deepest goalie camp in the NHL, they signed one of the AHL’s top scorers and they may have more defensemen in their system than the rest of the Eastern Conference combined. Shero hasn’t made a significant move for his NHL team yet but even with all the AHL moves he made, he’s still got more than $11 mil to work with to sign some big boys for the Pens. Here is a look at the newest Baby Pens: 1:25 PM – G JEFF ZATKOFF (2 years/$1.05M) - This was kind of a sh...
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