My offseason moves, thankfully the board upped my budget to $39M:
April 17 – Signed Tomas Plekanec to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Alexander Perezhogin to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Mike Komisarek to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Derek Morris to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Slava Kozlov to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Christian Backman to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Garnet Exelby to a contract extension through 2008
Signed Tomas Holmstrom to a contract extension through2008
Signed Saku Koivu to a contract extension through 2009
April 18 – Signed Duncan Milroy to a contract extension through 2007
Signed Olivier Michaud to a contract extension through 2007
May 5 – Signed Roland Melanson to a contract extension through 2009
Signed Graham Rybend to a contract extension through 2009
Signed Jodi Van Rees to a contract extension through 2008
May 24 - Signed Jan Bulis to a contract extension through 2007
June 24 – Drafted LW James Sheppard, F Kyle Okposo, F Sasha Golin, and G Antti Harma
June 26 – Signed Garth Murray to a contract extension through 2007
Signed Chris Higgins to a contract extension through 2007
June 30 – No Contract offered/not resigned:
Jonathan Aitken
Andrew Archer
Steve Begin
Elmer Benning – scout
Jonathan Ferland
Scott Livingston – scout
Mike Ribiero
Peter Vandermeer
Stephen Baby
William Berglund – scout
Francis Bouillion
Jean-Phillipe Cote
Matt Shasby
Ruslan Salei
Antonin Routa - scout
Pierre Gauthier – scout
Cristobal Huet
Francis Lemieux
Raitis Ivanans
Nikolai Vakurov – scout
Patrick Allvin – scout
Niklas Sundstrom
July 8 – Signed Kyle Chipchura through 2008
July 17 – Signed Phillipe Sauve through 2008
July 23 – Traded Richard Zednik to St Louis for Matt Walker and a 7th round pick
July 29 – Signed Daymond Langkow though 2009
July 30 – Assistant coach Jacques Laperriere retired.
August 1 – Signed Derek King as an assistant coach.
August 18 – Signed Roman Smatrala as a scout
Signed Jim Benning as a scout
Signed Steve Richmond as a scout
Signed Daniel Dore as a scout
I've invited a couple European teams and my AHL affiliate to play in a four team tournament for scouting purposes. Hopefully they accept. I also arranged to play a random Australian team in an exhibition game just for farts and giggles.
Sorry Tom 
Ya can't get nothin for nuthin... so someone has to go... even if the fans will be all 
and your board is 
c'est la vie.
And honestly I don't have a ton of people playing up to potential currently. My defense and my second and third line (which is my secondary checking line) have been carrying me really. So the future so bright I gotta wear shades 
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) but my unimpressive stats are already up at GLR 
