Wrapping things up, FIO staff writer Tim Hays breaks down the Top 25 goaltenders heading into fantasy hockey drafts this season, including in-depth analysis about the Top 10 and some notes about the remaining players on the list... and don't forget some sleepers listed.
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McCown had it through his sources that Research in Motion co-founder/Blackberry God Jim Balsillie ((pictured, thanks Getty Images)) was about to buy the NHL's Nashville Predators- again.
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In this excerpt from FIO's Free For All blog, writer Rob Edwards briefly discusses an experts mock draft he took part in last week. In this post, Edwards breaksdown his strategy and makes comments about his own picks, while giving readers the link for the full draft results. Participants included   more...
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Now that the European part of the NHL schedule is over, let's get down to making some predictions for the upcoming season. We rank every team by conference and their chances of breaking into one of the eight conference playoff seeds.
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Word comes from the ownership group themselves that they have defaulted on a US$40-million loan. They are the first ones, however, to put the blame on "Boots" Del Biaggio and his "imaginative" ((shall we say)) economics.
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Thrailkill maintains that if any owner, regardless of who ends up with the winning bid, assumed the Del Biaggio shares he or she would have no impact on the city of Nashville's guidelines for keeping the Preds at their downtown arena home.
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News out of Nashville has the remainder of the current Preds ownership group filing a claim against William "Boots" Del Biaggio in the Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco. The group is claiming that Del Biaggio's fraudulent behavior has cost them millions of dollars.
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Jim Balsillie has some competition for the 27-percent stake of the franchise currently up for bankruptcy bidding from the portfolio of William "Boots" Del Biaggio...The rest of the current ownership group...
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One of the interesting storylines to follow during training camp later this month will be the progress of Antti Pihlstrom, the Finnish agitator who has an outside shot at landing a roster spot with the Predators. After leading the AHL's Milwaukee Admirals in goal scoring (with 27 in 78 games), is   more...
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Stop us if you heard this one before: Jim Balsillie is buying the Nashville Predators.Yeaha€¦. we're not recycling old stories here, this one is fresh. Again. This time, however, Balsillie's lawyers are denying the whole thing.Says Sportsnet:The report, which aired Monday, cited an unnamed source   more...
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Happy 30th Birthday wishes go out to Jed Ortmeyer, and in his honor, today's Forechecker's Forecast is devoted to the one-time University of Michigan Wolverine.Jed signed a two-year deal with Nashville last summer, and the expectation has been that he'd provide basic checking and penalty killing
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Today's projection should be an easy one. Coming into training camp Pekka Rinne has 3 career games of NHL service, so normally one might wonder if there's much history to leverage in terms of predicting future performance. But with the Predators, we have a very clear guideline to follow. Each of   more...
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When the Buffalo Sabres walked away from an arbitration award in the summer of 2006, making J.P. Dumont an unrestricted free agent, many approved of David Poile's subsequent signing of him as a savvy addition that would bring secondary scoring behind the likes of Paul Kariya and Steve Sullivan, who   more...
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A report given by the Globe and Mail stated that the NHL has publicly announced the possibility of expanding to teams overseas. Seemingly overnight, this speculation has spawned garrulous debate about possible expansion; from newspaper articles to blog pages across the continent. Although they do   more...
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A report given by the Globe and Mail stated that the NHL has publicly announced the possibility of expanding to teams overseas. Seemingly overnight, this speculation has spawned garrulous debate about possible expansion; from newspaper articles to blog pages across the continent. Although they do   more...
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