The New Jersey Devils acquired forward Alexei Ponikarovsky from the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday for a 2012 fourth-round draft pick and defenseman Joe Sova.Ponikarovsky, 31, has seven goals and eight assists in 49 games for the Hurricanes this season.In 602 career NHL games with Toronto, Pittsburgh, Los Angeles and Carolina the six-foot-four, 226-pound Ukrainian has 128 goals and...

The New Jersey Devils have acquired forward Alexei Ponikarovsky from the Carolina Hurricanes for defenseman Joe Sova and a fourth-round draft pick in 2012. This is a good depth move for Devils GM Lou Lamoriello. It adds some much needed size and grit to the third line. It’s a typical under the radar Lamoriello move. Ponikarovsky is 6′ 4″ 226lbs and immediately upgrades the...

With the early season movements of Tomas Kaberle and Alexei Ponikarovsky and the Hurricanes placing Anthony Stewart on waivers Monday, all signs point to the Hurricanes making noise at the trade deadline at the end of February. Jim Rutherford has already set the bar high on the price tag for forward Tuomo Ruutu and plenty of teams are biting at the offers. Here is some early expectations...

Kurtis Foster scored a pair of power-play goals, and the New Jersey Devils held on for a 6-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday afternoon. Ilya Kovalchuk, Dainius Zubrus, Zach Parise and Alexei Ponikarovsky also had goals for the Devils, who have won three in a row. New Jersey's special teams scored three times on the power play and once short-handed. Down 6-0...

We have some breaking news here tonight. According to Hurricanes beat writer Chip Alexander, the New Jersey Devils have acquired Alexei Ponikarovsky from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for defenseman Joe Sova and a 4th in the 2012 entry draft. Ponikarovsky is a big, experienced winger who plays a solid two-way game. He's not a star at either end but he can get the...

Jim Rutherford has been a busy man this week as he made his second trade in four days by dealing winger Alexei Ponikarovsky to the New Jersey Devils for a 2012 4th round pick and defenseman Joe Sova. The timing of this trade may have been a bit weird, but I think it is safe to say that we all saw a move like this coming. Ponikarovsky is a pending unrestricted free agent and signed...

from Chip Alexander of Canes Now, The trade deadline is still a month away, but the Carolina Hurricanes picked up a draft pick and cleared one of their expiring contracts off the books Friday night. After a 3-0 win over the Washington Capitals, the Canes traded forward Alexei Ponikarovsky to the New Jersey Devils for a fourth-round draft pick in 2012 and minor-league defenseman...

The trade deadline looms nearer each day, and NHL analysts are already tearing apart the rosters of the bottom-dwellers of each conference. The Blue Jackets, the Hurricanes, and the Ducks have been deconstructed and sold off in fantasy draft fashion by pundits nearing February 27th, and that includes the members of this site. But one of the more intriguing deadline scenarios...

What will hopefully go down as the worst trade in Ray Shero’s tenure as Pens’ GM is officially history. Alexei Ponikarovsky somehow got a one-year, $3 million deal from the LA Kings, who must be more desperate for offensive help than I had previously thought. Not to beat a dead horse, but Alex P. had 2 goals in 16 regular-season games for the Pens, then proceeded to do diddly...

Jim Rutherford has been a busy man this week as he made his second trade in four days by dealing winger Alexei Ponikarovsky to the New Jersey Devils for a 2012 4th round pick and defenseman Joe Sova. The timing of this trade may have been a bit weird, but I think it is safe to say that we all saw a move like this coming. Ponikarovsky is a pending unrestricted free agent and signed...

After a noon phone call with the NHL offices Alexei Ponikarovsky has been handed a 2 game suspension. I don’t remember the last time the Pens had a 100% full/healthy lineup. Against Washington this week the Pens were down Kunitz and Malkin (33% of their top 2 lines). Tomorrow no Kunitz and no Ponikarovsky [...]

One of the fun things you can do when your team changes coaches about a quarter way through the season is compare how the new guy is performing compared to who is replacing. The general consensus among Carolina fans is that new coach Kirk Muller is doing a fantastic job and is more suited for this team than Paul Maurice. Despite those claims, the Hurricanes performance under Muller...

Flew with Hurricanes to New York after Friday night's game

The cornerstone Hurricanes are playing very well. Center Eric Staal and goaltender Cam Ward have picked up their game, giving GM Jim Rutherford full confidence they can be part of the solution as the team rebuilds.But Rutherford is busily altering the supporting cast, adding young players and prospects to expedite the turnaround.Carolina traded forward Alexei Ponikarovsky to the...

Originally drafted in the fourth round of the 1998 NHL Entry Draft (87th overall) by the Toronto Maple Leafs, Alexei (Alex) Ponikarovsky was seen as a little more than a project forward. “Poni” (as he is so aptly nicknamed) would have a couple of short stints with Krylja Sovetov Moscow-Russia, Dynamo Moscow-Russia and Dynamo Moscow-EuroNHL before finally joining the Maple Leafs...

The Kings have signed forward Alexei Ponikarovsky to fill the shoes left by the departed Alexander Frolov. Was it a good move? That’s debatable. But the fact remains that the Kings locked up Ponikarovsky for 1-year at $3 million. As a result it is the ultimate in low-risk, since the worst case scenario they’re stuck with an under-performing player they can dump at the...

The trade deadline is over a month away but trade talk is starting to heat up.  Sellers like the Carolina Hurricanes have been moving pieces already, including former King Alexei Ponikarovsky, who is now a Devil.  Barring some kind of epic meltdown, the Kings will most likely be buyers come the trade deadline.  Later this week I’ll take a look at the players, or type of...

The Kings will be without defenseman Willie Mitchell and left wing Alexei Ponikarovsky for at least a month due to recent injuries. Mitchell has a broken left wrist and is expected to be out for four to six weeks and Ponikarovsky will miss at least four weeks with a broken finger. Both injuries were sustained during Saturday nights victory over the Nashville Predators. Mitchell and...

Forward Alexei Ponikarovsky and defenseman Willie Mitchell are both scheduled to return to the lineup tomorrow against Columbus. Both were out because of lower-body injuries. Mitchell has been out 11 games, Ponikarovsky only six. Fractures caused both to miss time earlier in the season. Mitchell suffered a broken wrist and Ponikarovsky, a broken finger. Ponikarovsky will start the...

The Carolina Hurricanes signed left wing Alexei Ponikarovsky to a one-year contract Friday.The deal is worth $1.5 million for Ponikarovsky, who scored only five goals in 61 games with the Los Angeles Kings last season.The 31-year-old Ponikarovsky had his best season with Toronto in 2008-09, scoring 23 goals with 38 assists while playing in all 82 games.

NHLHS Los Angeles Kings Correspondent Mike Murangi discusses the acquisition of Alexei Ponikarovski. The Los Angeles Kings and GM Dean Lombardi, recently stung by the loss of free agent Ilya Kovalchuk, signed veteran winger Alexei Ponikarovsky to a one year deal worth $3.2 million. The Kings lost veteran winger Alexander Frolov the same day to the New York Rangers.  Though he...

Alexei Ponikarovsky had two goals and an assist and Chad LaRose had a goal and two assists and the Carolina Hurricanes earned a 4-2 win over the Philadelphia Flyers on Monday night.

Left winger Alexei Ponikarovsky might be back in the Penguins' lineup for Game 7 of their second-round playoff series against Montreal at Mellon Arena tonight

Alexei Ponikarovsky has agreed to terms with the LA Kings. The Los Angeles Kings have agreed to terms with Alexei Ponikarovsky, a three-time 20-goal scorer for the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Pittsbu...

Alexei Ponikarovsky made his debut with the Penguins Saturday and looked solid while doing it. He scored the sixth and final goal in Pittsburgh’s 6-3 win over Dallas and assisted on Evgeni Malkin’s goal Sunday against Boston. The former Leaf appeared to cut his arm while blocking a shot from a Boston defenceman but despite what Evanka Osmak thinks, he did return to that...