The New Trade Deadline Strategy
from Eric Duhatschek of the Globe and Mail, The new hard currency at the deadline isn’t draft choices - unless they’re No. 1s, preferably in the top 15 - but prospects already in the pipeline, the Jake Gardiners of the world, the player who came to the Maple Leafs last year as a relative unknown semi-throw-in, in the Joffrey Lupul-for-Francois Beauchemin deal, but was closer...
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3 days ago
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3 days ago
Hopeful Ducks Re-sign Francois Beauchemin
By Steve Palumbo (@StevePalumboNHL)
The Anaheim Ducks continue to operate like a club preparing for a long playoff run. Instead of trading away impending unrestricted free-agent Francois Beauchemin, the Ducks re-upped the dependable blue liner for three more years.
Beauchemin’s new deal has him signed through the 2014-15 season and will pay him $3.5 million each year. A discounted...
Via The Hockey Guys
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22 days ago
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22 days ago
Defense keying Ducks' resurgence
Less than 24 hours after his three-year contract extension was announced, Anaheim Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin picked up exactly where he had left off in this productive January that just keeps getting better in Orange County.
Except this time, it wasn't the offense "Beauch" as he is known to his teammates provided. The versatile defenseman, who entered Saturday...
Via Fox Sports West
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23 days ago
Ducks, D Beauchemin agree to three-year contract extension
Francois Beauchemin has signed a three-year, $10.5-million extension with the Anaheim Ducks.The 31-year-old defenseman was set to become an unrestricted free agent this summer.Beauchemin is averaging a team-high 25:44 of ice time per game, while recording six goals and 12 assists in 45 games this season.The Toronto Maple Leafs traded the blueliner back to Anaheim for a second stint...
Via Pro Sports Daily
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
Ducks give Beauchemin 3-year extension
The Anaheim Ducks have signed veteran defenseman Francois Beauchemin to a three-year contract extension worth $10.5 million.
Anaheim announced the deal Friday, keeping Beauchemin off the free-agent market this summer.
Beauchemin is in his seventh full NHL season, playing briefly in Montreal and Columbus before a trade sent him to the Ducks in November 2005. He won the Stanley Cup...
Via AP on Fox
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24 days ago
Ducks Extend Francois Beauchemin Contract
ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Anaheim Ducks announced today that the National Hockey League (NHL) club has signed defenseman Francois Beauchemin to a three-year contract extension through the 2014-15 NHL season. Per club policy, no financial terms of the deal were disclosed.
“Francois is a dedicated, versatile and hard-working defenseman who is committed to our organization...
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24 days ago
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24 days ago
Beauchemin scores two to lead Ducks
The Anaheim Ducks' scoring slump is over. Now they are netting goals in bunches.
Francois Beauchemin tied a career high with two goals, Jonas Hiller stopped 25 shots and the Ducks beat the Phoenix Coyotes 6-2 on Wednesday night.
The Ducks are 6-0-1 in their past seven games, matching the club's longest point streak since November 2010. Anaheim has scored 31 times during...
Via AP on Fox
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26 days ago
Beauchemin's 2 goals lift Ducks over Coyotes
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Francois Beauchemin tied a career high with two goals, Jonas Hiller stopped 25 shots, and the Anaheim Ducks beat the Phoenix Coyotes 6-2 on Wednesday night.
The Ducks are 6-0-1 in their past seven games, matching the club's longest point streak since November 2010.
Anaheim All-Star Corey Perry had a short-handed goal, and Niklas Hagman, Jason Blake and...
Via Fox Sports West
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26 days ago
ON THIN ICE
Leafs unloading, so who's next to go?
The trade of Francois Beauchemin looks like what could be the beginning of a fire sale in Toronto, so who may be the next to get shipped out of town by GM Brian Burke?
Via The Slap Shot
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February 10, 2011
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February 10, 2011
First Maple Leaf Player to Head out: Francois Beauchemin?
Over the last month I have been carefully watch Toronto Maple Leafs defenseman Francois Beauchemin. In regards to his playing time, any nagging injuries that might go unheard, all inside resources I have and several twitter feeds. After a month I do feel that if there is a player on the Maple Leafs to be traded, I feel that there is a higher probability of Beauchemin being sent out...
Via Waffles and Leafs
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February 05, 2011
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